The Omen

1/2 Stars

This frame by frame remake of the 1976 original is a dud- a disappointment from start to finish. I would rather take a trip to the dentist, do the cleaning myself then give my clean teeth to a dog to play with.

An American diplomat named Robert Thorn endures devastating news when his newborn son dies. Although, he doesn't tell his wife Katherine...(um, what?). I guess Thorn knows the news will devastate who had suffered two previous miscarriages. So like any other father, a priest convinces him to take another child born that night and call it his own. They call him Damien, who coincidently is the Anti-Christ. I guess the film needed a reason for it to be scary. And it is scary, the fact that a husband would do this to his wife. If the child gave that dog his teeth to play with (in the picture above), that would have been an interesting premise.