US Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) agrees to adopt a child to spare his wife (Lee Remick) the pain of knowing that their son died stillborn – but there’s something a little off about young Damien Thorn. Maybe it’s the massive Rottweiler that follows him around, or the way that animals flee from him, or the peculiar nanny who turns up out of nowhere like a chilling Mary Poppins. Or the way anyone who tries to warn Robert about the child’s demonic nature falls foul of a terrible accident.
Ah yes, those accidents. Time has not been kind to The Omen’s once-iconic death scenes; these days, the slow build-ups to the assorted decapitations and impalements are uncannily reminiscent of Casualty. Or, with all the 70s haircuts, those public information films where little Timmy tries to retrieve his ball from the substation.
Still, by grounding its scares in reality rather than unearthly spooks, The Omen brings the horror home; it’s as much a story about how the arrival of a child disrupts families as it is about supernatural scares.
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