The Omen
The Omen | |
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Directed by | Richard Donner |
Written by | David Seltzer |
Produced by | Harvey Bernhard |
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Cinematography | Mace Neufeld Productions |
Distributed by | 20th Century-Fox |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
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Language | English |
Budget | $2.8 million[2] |
Box office | $60.9 million (United States and Canada)[3] |
The Omen is a 1976 supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner and written by David Seltzer. An international co-production of the United Kingdom and the United States, it stars Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Harvey Spencer Stephens (in his film debut), Billie Whitelaw, Patrick Troughton, Martin Benson, and Leo McKern. The film's plot follows Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by his father, unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.
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.Plot
American diplomat Robert Thorn and his wife Katherine are living in Rome, where Katherine gives birth to a boy who Robert is told died immediately. Hospital chaplain Father Spiletto persuades Robert to secretly adopt another baby whose mother just died in childbirth. Robert does not tell Katherine the child is not their own. They name him Damien.
Five years later, Robert is Ambassador to the United Kingdom in London when mysterious phenomena begin to plague the Thorns: a menacing Rottweiler appears at their home, Damien's nanny publicly hangs herself during his fifth birthday party, new nanny Mrs. Baylock arrives unexpectedly, Damien violently resists entering a church, and Damien's presence frightens animals at a safari park. Father Brennan warns Robert about Damien's origins, hinting that he is not human and insisting Robert take Communion. He tells Robert that Damien is the son of Satan, that Katherine is pregnant, and that Damien will kill his unborn sibling and parents. Later, Father Brennan is killed by a falling lightning rod. Katherine tells Robert she wants an abortion, which he opposes. Damien knocks Katherine over a railing to the floor below, injuring and causing her to miscarry.
Photographer Keith Jennings notices shadows in photographs of the nanny and Father Brennan that presaged their deaths. Keith shows Robert the photos along with news clippings and Biblical passages that suggest the coming of the Antichrist. He accompanies Robert to Rome to investigate Damien's birth. They learn that a fire destroyed the hospital, including Katherine's maternity records, and killed the staff on duty. They find Father Spiletto in a monastery severely burned, mute, blind in one eye, and partially paralyzed. He directs them to the cemetery where Damien's biological mother is buried. In Damien's mother's grave, Robert and Keith find a jackal carcass and, in the next plot, a child's skeleton with a shattered skull. Robert realizes that the child was his own son, murdered so that Damien could take his place. A pack of Rottweilers drives Robert and Keith from the cemetery.
Robert calls Katherine in hospital to tell her she must leave London. Before she can do so, Mrs. Baylock throws her to her death from a window. Robert and Keith befriend Antichrist exorcism expert Carl Bugenhagen in Israel who says if Damien is the true Antichrist, he will bear a birthmark in the shape of three sixes. Carl gives Robert seven daggers with which to kill Damien on hallowed ground. Robert refuses to do so, but Keith remains convinced about the necessity of it. Afterwards, Keith is decapitated by a sheet of glass. Robert then reluctantly accepts his task.
Robert finds the birthmark on the sleeping Damien's scalp and is attacked by Mrs. Baylock, whom he stabs to death. Armed with the daggers, Robert drives Damien to a cathedral. His erratic driving draws the attention of the police. Robert drags a screaming Damien onto the altar to kill him and begs God to forgive him, but the police arrive on the scene and shoot him to death before he can do so.
The double funeral of Katherine and Robert is attended by the U.S. President and the First Lady, who have Damien with them. Damien turns and smiles at the camera.
Cast
- Gregory Peck as Robert Thorn
- Lee Remick as Katherine Thorn
- David Warner as Keith Jennings
- Billie Whitelaw as Mrs. Baylock
- Harvey Spencer Stephens as Damien Thorn
- Patrick Troughton as Father Brennan
- Martin Benson as Father Spiletto
- Leo McKern as Carl Bugenhagen (uncredited)
- Robert Rietti as Monk
- John Stride as The Psychiatrist
- Anthony Nicholls as Dr. Fred Becker
- Holly Palance as Nanny
- Roy Boyd as Reporter
- Freda Dowie as Nun
- Sheila Raynor as Mrs. Ingrid Horton
- Bruce Boa as Thorn Aide 1
- Don Fellows as Thorn Aide 2
- Patrick McAlinney as Photographer
- Betty McDowall as American secretary
- Nicholas Campbell as embassy guard Marine Corporal
Production
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Development
According to producer Harvey Bernhard, the idea of a motion picture about the Antichrist came after a discussion about the Bible with Bob Munger, a friend of Bernhard's. When Munger told him about the idea in 1973, the producer immediately contacted screenwriter David Seltzer and hired him to write a screenplay. It took a year for Seltzer to write the script.[4][5]
The film was considered by Warner Bros. Pictures, but the project did not move forward until optioned by Alan Ladd Jr. of 20th Century Fox.[5][6] Seltzer and Donner differed over the film's message.[7] Donner favored an ambiguous reading of the script under which it would be left for the audience to decide whether Damien was the Antichrist or whether the series of violent deaths in the film were all just a string of unfortunate accidents.[7] Seltzer rejected the ambiguity favored by Donner and pressed for an interpretation of his script that left no doubt for the audience that Damien Thorn was the Antichrist and that all of the deaths in the film were caused by the malevolent power of Satan, the interpretation that Bernhard chose to go with.[7]
Casting
Bernhard claims Gregory Peck had been the choice to portray Ambassador Thorn from the beginning. Peck got involved with the project through his agent, who was friends with producer Bernhard. After reading the script, Peck reportedly liked the idea that it was more of a psychological thriller rather than a horror film and agreed to star in it. He was at first displeased with the props and effects for making the death scenes but was relieved to find how restrained and non-exploitative they were in the final film.[4][8]
Despite Bernhard's claim,
According to separate interviews with Donner and Harvey Stephens, over 500 boys had auditioned for the role of Damien.[13] The then four-year-old Stephens won the role after Donner encouraged the boys to attack him during a group audition, following which Stephens reportedly clawed at Donner's face and kicked him in the groin. Because Stephens had curly blonde hair, Donner had Stephens' hair straightened and dyed black, and gave him colored contacts to make him look scarier.[14][15][16][17]
Filming
Principal photography of The Omen began on October 6, 1975, and lasted eleven weeks, wrapping on January 9, 1976.[18] Scenes were shot on location in Bishops Park in Fulham, London and Guildford Cathedral in Surrey.[19][20][21] The Thorns' country manor was filmed at Pyrford Court in Surrey.[5] The church featured in the Bishop's Park neighbourhood is All Saints' Church, Fulham, on the western side of Putney Bridge Road. The church used in the final climactic scene is St Peter's in Staines-upon-Thames. Additional photography took place at Shepperton Studios outside London, as well as on location in Jerusalem and Rome.[2]
For the scene where Katherine's car is attacked by baboons, production initially tried to have the baboons attack by placing food around the car (after having the zoo staff members deliberately not feed the baboons the night before filming), whilst also placing a baby baboon in the back seat of the car with a zoo official. After it failed to earn the desired effect, the official swapped out the baby baboon for the alpha baboon, which got the baboons to attack the car.[14][22] According to Richard Donner, Lee Remick's terror during the scene was authentic.[4]
Analysis
This section relies largely or entirely on a single source. (July 2021) |
American scholar Brad Duren argued that The Omen was part of a trend of films featuring cosmic horror that started with Rosemary's Baby in 1968, but the film was unusual at the time because it concerned the "end times" predicted in The Book of Revelation and focused on a form of premillennialism favored by American dispensationalists. Duren further maintained that the box office success of The Omen, which concerned the first stages of the Apocalypse as the Antichrist is born, reflected the zeitgeist of 1970s America.[23]
In 1973, an advertising executive and
Jim Knipfel in The Omen: The Pedigree of a Horror Classic on Den of Geek, opines of The Omen, "[T]here is no single source quite as central and clearly influential as "The Devil's Platform", a 1974 episode from the first season of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, with stars Tom Skerritt (credited as "Tom Skerrit") as Robert Palmer, a young politician whose meteoric rise seemed to come out of nowhere. He seems a shoo-in to become the new state senator from Illinois, but is already gunning for the White House. ...Palmer is rising quickly in the world of politics, which of course was the subtext of the entire Omen franchise. Anyone who threatens his rise or stands in his way — major political donors, speechwriters for the opposing candidate, even the opposing candidate himself — ends up dying mysteriously as the result of a tragic and freakish accident, which was the hook that brought most people to the theaters to see the Omen films in the first place. ...Palmer, again like Damien, also has a very protective Rottweiler familiar, who is impervious to harm. ... Like David Warner's photographer in the first film, inexplicable photographic anomalies help point Kolchak in the right direction. ... And finally, in the end the ambitious Satanic candidate is dispatched with a holy instrument (blessed daggers in The Final Conflict, holy water in The Night Stalker). So there. In a way, watching "The Devil's Platform" is a bit like watching all three Omen films from an outsider journalist's perspective, except Kolchak is able to wrap the whole thing up neatly in an hour."[24]
The success of the film in 1976 may have been due to a sense of malaise in the West at the time. As film critic John Kenneth Muir wrote: "What if the Bible is correct? What if all the signs of the Apocalypse are happening around about now? Would we believe them? Heck, would we even notice?" Duren wrote that, although it was unlikely that most people who viewed the film in 1976 accepted the dispensationalist viewpoint, the mere feeling that the world or the West was in terminal decline gave the film a resonance that its subsequent sequels lacked. Beyond the success of the film, Duren wrote that the impact of the film on popular culture can be seen in the way that many people accept the dispensationalist reading of the Book of Revelation as the correct interpretation whereas in fact, the dispensationalist interpretation was and still is rejected by many churches. Duren wrote that dispensationalism had once been a "fringe" theory within Protestant theology, but due to the popularity of The Omen it is now widely accepted as doctrine.[25]
Duren notes that in the film it has to be explained to Robert Thorn that the number 666 is the "
Music
The Omen | |
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20th Century Fox | |
Producer | Jerry Goldsmith |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [27] |
An original score for the film, including the movie's theme song "
Original soundtrack (1990)
All music is composed by Jerry Goldsmith
No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Ave Satani" | Jerry Goldsmith | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:32 |
2. | "The New Ambassador" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:33 | |
3. | "The Killer Storm" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:51 | |
4. | "A Sad Message" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:42 | |
5. | "The Demise of Mrs. Baylock" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:52 | |
6. | "Don't Let Him" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:48 | |
7. | "The Piper Dreams" | Carol Goldsmith | Carol Goldsmith | 2:39 |
8. | "The Fall" | Jerry Goldsmith | 3:42 | |
9. | "Safari Park" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:04 | |
10. | "The Dogs Attack" | Jerry Goldsmith | 5:50 | |
11. | "The Homecoming" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:43 | |
12. | "The Altar" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:00 |
Deluxe Edition soundtrack (2001)
For the film's 25th anniversary, a deluxe version of the soundtrack was released with eight additional tracks.
All music is composed by Jerry Goldsmith
No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Ave Satani" | Jerry Goldsmith | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:35 |
2. | "On This Night" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:36 | |
3. | "The New Ambassador" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:34 | |
4. | "Where Is He?" | Jerry Goldsmith | :56 | |
5. | "I Was There" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:27 | |
6. | "Broken Vows" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:12 | |
7. | "Safari Park" | Jerry Goldsmith | 3:24 | |
8. | "A Doctor, Please" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:44 | |
9. | "The Killer Storm" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:54 | |
10. | "The Fall" | Jerry Goldsmith | 3:45 | |
11. | "Don't Let Him" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:49 | |
12. | "The Day He Died" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:14 | |
13. | "The Dogs Attack" | Jerry Goldsmith | 5:54 | |
14. | "A Sad Message" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:44 | |
15. | "Beheaded" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:49 | |
16. | "The Bed" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:08 | |
17. | "666" | Jerry Goldsmith | :44 | |
18. | "The Demise of Mrs. Baylock" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:54 | |
19. | "The Altar" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:07 | |
20. | "The Piper Dreams" | Carol Goldsmith | Carol Goldsmith | 2:41 |
40th Anniversary edition soundtrack (2016)
A limited-edition soundtrack was released for the film's 40th anniversary with six additional tracks and a bonus track.
All music is composed by Jerry Goldsmith
No. | Title | Lyrics | Artist | Length |
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1. | "Ave Satani" | Jerry Goldsmith | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:34 |
2. | "On This Night" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:35 | |
3. | "The New Ambassador" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:35 | |
4. | "Where Is He?" | Jerry Goldsmith | :55 | |
5. | "Fatal Fall/It's All For You" | Jerry Goldsmith | :42 | |
6. | "The Dog" | Jerry Goldsmith | :24 | |
7. | "I Was There" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:24 | |
8. | "Have No Fear" | Jerry Goldsmith | :36 | |
9. | "Broken Vows" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:12 | |
10. | "Safari Park" | Jerry Goldsmith | 3:21 | |
11. | "A Doctor, Please" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:43 | |
12. | "She'll Die" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:43 | |
13. | "The Killer Storm" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:55 | |
14. | "The Fall" | Jerry Goldsmith | 3:45 | |
15. | "Don't Let Him" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:48 | |
16. | "The Day He Died" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:14 | |
17. | "Father Spiletto" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:09 | |
18. | "The Dogs Attack" | Jerry Goldsmith | 5:53 | |
19. | "Mother's Death" | Jerry Goldsmith | :48 | |
20. | "A Sad Message" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:44 | |
21. | "Beheaded" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:48 | |
22. | "The Bed" | Jerry Goldsmith | 1:08 | |
23. | "666" | Jerry Goldsmith | :46 | |
24. | "The Demise of Mrs. Baylock" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:54 | |
25. | "The Altar" | Jerry Goldsmith | 2:04 | |
26. | "The Piper Dreams" | Carol Goldsmith | Carol Goldsmith | 2:39 |
27. | "The Omen Suite" | Diego Navarro, Tenerife Film Orchestra | 10:52 |
Release
Box office
The Omen was released following a successful $2.8 million marketing campaign inspired by the one from Jaws one year prior, with two weeks of sneak previews, a novelization by screenwriter David Seltzer, and the logo with "666" inside the film's title as the centerpiece of the advertisement.[31] An early screening of the film took place in numerous U.S. cities on June 6, 1976.[32][33][34]
The film was a massive commercial success, opening in the United States and Canada on June 25, 1976, in 516 theaters.
During its release in South Africa under the apartheid regime, the Publication Approval Board cut the final scenes showing the killing of Robert Thorn and Damien's survival.[5]
Critical response
Contemporary
Retrospective
In 1978, two years after its release, The Omen was included in Harry Medved and Harry Dreyfuss's book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time. It was the most recent movie featured.[45]
Retrospective reviews of the film have been more favorable. On
The Omen was ranked number 81 on the
The film was criticized by the
Accolades
Institution | Category | Recipient | Result | Ref. |
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Academy Awards | Best Original Score | Jerry Goldsmith | Won | [56] |
Best Original Song | Nominated | |||
BAFTA Awards | Best Supporting Actress | Billie Whitelaw | Nominated | |
British Society of Cinematographers | Best Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor | Won | |
Edgar Allan Poe Award
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Best Screenplay | David Seltzer | Nominated | |
Evening Standard British Film Awards | Best Actress | Billie Whitelaw | Won | |
Golden Globe Awards | Best Acting Debut – Male | Harvey Stephens | Nominated | [57] |
Grammy Awards
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Best Album of Original Score
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Jerry Goldsmith | Nominated | |
Saturn Awards | Best Horror Film | The Omen | Nominated | |
Best Actor in a Horror Film | Gregory Peck | Won | ||
Writers Guild of America | Best Original Screenplay | David Seltzer | Nominated |
Home media
The Omen was released on
The film had its debut on
Franchise
Films
A novelization of The Omen was written by screenwriter David Seltzer and released two weeks before the film. For the book, Seltzer augmented some plot points and character backgrounds and changed minor details, including some character names: Holly became Chessa Whyte, Keith Jennings became Haber Jennings and Father Brennan became Father Edgardo Emilio Tassone.
The Omen was followed by three sequels:
Television
The Omen (1995)
In 1995, a television pilot titled The Omen aired on NBC, on September 8 of that year. Directed by Jack Sholder, the hour-long episode was intended as an attempt to develop The Omen franchise into a TV series. Although Donner was attached to the project as an executive producer, the pilot failed and the series never moved forward.[67] Unrelated to the previous films, The Omen follows a group of people who are tracking down an entity to which they are all independently linked.[68]
Damien (2016)
A television series called Damien was in development at the network
See also
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External links
- The Omen at IMDb
- The Omen at the TCM Movie Database
- The Omen at AllMovie
- The Omen at the American Film Institute Catalog
- The Omen at Box Office Mojo
- The Omen at Rotten Tomatoes