Director(s): Richard Donner

Writer(s): David Seltzer

Cast: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw

Synopsis & Review:  A real good movie, if you get a chance you must see this. Richard Donner directs a horrifying tale of an american family who adopt a baby boy. But this is no ordinary boy, this kid is trouble with a capital "T".

We start off with a happy american couple who are trying to have a baby. At the hospital the young american babe is still born (born dead). In the same hospital a young single mother gives birth to a child, and she plans on giving it up for adoption. The grieved american ambassador husband (Gregory Peck) decides to switch babies to make his wife happy. The happy couple names their son Damien. (can you see where this is going?)

A number of strange events occur and several religious believers have suspitions that the child is the son of the devil. They try to convince the ambassador to kill his adopted son, but he refuses. A reporter finds a hidden formula as to who will be murdered. This is enough to send the skeptical ambassador on a trip to Isreal.

Does the answer which they seek lay in Isreal? Or does he know the truth already?

I loved this first installment of the Omen series. There are several death scenes in this movie that are truly amazing, and the end of the movie is creepy as hell. Although the film is good, you have to be careful that you don't "loose your head" over it. hehehe!