The third and final section of the Omen trilogy (with four movies) (well five if you count the remake) release to sneak into the 80’s horror section in 1981 this movie completed the story. Made on a budget of $5m it went on to rack in $20m from the box-office, not liked by critics with a lowly 5.6/10 from IMDb and even less from Rotten Tomatoes with a 30% score but I am not sure if I am going to be the one that explains why that is the case. It starred Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Don Gordon, Lisa Harrow & Barnaby Holm. Onto the plot and I will try and control myself this time and not reveal the whole damn thing.
Damien is manoeuvring his career in a particular path after the death of his adopted father the opportunity to take his former office as the US Ambassador to the UK is at hand. He has fully accepted his lineage and being the Son of Satan he has eyes on the possibility of being president of America. Meanwhile priest have banded together to get the Megiddo daggers together and plan for how to use them on Damien. Realising that March 24th 1981 is the date when the Cassiopeia Constellation will be in alignment and Damien realises this is the date of the second coming of the son of Christ and organises that any child born in the UK that date should be murdered and they are up in the thirties when the priest start to close in an Damien suspects people close to him and the trickery they try to lead Damien to his death and he goes with the intension of killing the remaining surviving priests. The battle is set up.
Darn it I did it again! Too much plot again and I said I wouldn’t do it as well. Sorry I didn’t say the end though! I feel this horror story is more about what went on behind the scenes with apparent deaths on set and people dying before the conclusion of editing and cutting the three movies together which has held this mystic over the story. There are many scene’s that are made scary by music rather than the scene’s themselves. These movies have a bang to rights soundtrack and can be scary with the links to this movie on their own. I liked the story of Satan sending his own son to try and compete for the earth and try to stay hidden. Whilst god seems to ignore the priests who are trying to find clues and work out who and what he is up to, just doesn’t seem that fair to me. This concludes the story and for me I see it as one story as there is an arc as oppose to a make this movie. Oh shall we make another how are we going to join the dots? Well stuff it we’ll just make a rubbish reason and go with it which is why so many sequels failed for many years. I am not saying ALL sequels as there are plenty in this list I am just saying many just don’t work and there’s a reason for it. I am trying to work out why this is not well liked and the best I could think of was that it is slow, there are lots of schemes and plans and counter plans and that maybe the reason but I don’t know why so I will say if you liked the first you might as well enjoy the rest of the story.
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