#16 - The Omen (1976)
Ok, this is not my 24 hours. First the bloody internet goes down, and now I start to get a migraine. At least, that's what it feels like. And if it is, I'll really have to stop, because my two options for migraines are take the pain medication I have for them which knocks me out for hours with no recourse, or lie in a darkened and quiet room until the pain goes away.
I'll just have to see how things go.
Anyway. The Omen is one of the great classics of English horror, and it does it in a remarkably bloodless fashion (apart from, of course, David Warner's spectacular demise). The story is simple yet complex: the American ambassador to Britain begind to suspect that his son, whom he had secretly adopted when his wife delivered their child stillborn, is actually the son of the Devil.
The movie builds slowly, and plays its revelations subtle at first, but as the film progresses they grow, so that by the end we the viewer knows that the only explanation is that little Damien Thorn is indeed the AntiChrist and needs to be dealt with... but at the same time, it's a traditional moral dilemma.
It's a shame they had to remake it, really (although I may be biased there as my views on remakes should be well-known by now).
I'll just have to see how things go.
Anyway. The Omen is one of the great classics of English horror, and it does it in a remarkably bloodless fashion (apart from, of course, David Warner's spectacular demise). The story is simple yet complex: the American ambassador to Britain begind to suspect that his son, whom he had secretly adopted when his wife delivered their child stillborn, is actually the son of the Devil.
The movie builds slowly, and plays its revelations subtle at first, but as the film progresses they grow, so that by the end we the viewer knows that the only explanation is that little Damien Thorn is indeed the AntiChrist and needs to be dealt with... but at the same time, it's a traditional moral dilemma.
It's a shame they had to remake it, really (although I may be biased there as my views on remakes should be well-known by now).