Product Description
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DVD Special Features:
Disc One - The Omen
Audio Commentary by Director Richard Donner
"666: The Omen Revealed" Documentary
"Curse or Coincidence" Featurette
4 Jerry Goldsmith Interview Clips
"The Omen" Trailer
Feature Running Time: 106 minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of Hearing English, Czech, Danish, Finnish,
Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Swedish
Original Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 (Widescreen 16 x 9)
Sound Quality: Dolby 2.0
Disc Two - Omen II
Audio Commentary by Producer Harvey Berhard
3 Theatrical Trailers
Feature Running Time: 102 minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: Hard of Hearing English, Czech, Danish, Finnish,
Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese,
Swedish
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Widescreen 16 x 9)
Sound Quality: Dolby 2.0
Disc Three - The Final Conflict Audio Commentary by Director
Graham Baker
3 Theatrical Trailers
Feature Running Time: 103 minutes
Language: English
Subtitles: Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic,
Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish
Original Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Widescreen 16 x 9)
Sound Quality: Dolby 2.0
.co.uk Review
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In 1976 The Omen scored a hit with critics and audiences hungry
for more after The Exorcist with its mixture of Gothic horror and
mystery and its plot about a young boy suspected of being the
personification of the anti-Christ. Directed by Richard Donner
(best known for his Superman and Lethal Weapon films), The Omen
gained a lot of credibility from the casting of Gregory Peck and
Lee Remick as a distinguished American couple living in England,
whose young son Damien bears "the mark of the beast". At a time
when graphic gore had yet to dominate the horror genre, this film
used its violence discreetly and to great effect and the mood of
dread and potential death is masterfully maintained. It's all a
bit contrived, with a lot of biblical portent and sensational
fury but few would deny it's highly entertaining. Jerry
Goldsmith's O-winning score works wonders to enhance the
movie's creepy atmosphere. --Jeff Shannon, .com
Damien: Omen II takes place several years after the mysterious
events that cled the life of the US Ambassador and his wife as
the now teenaged and militarily enrolled Damien Thorne is slowly
being made aware of his unholy heritage and horrific destiny. Woe
is he (including anyone in Damien's adoptive family and his
classmates) who suspects the truth or gets in his way. While not
as unrelentingly frightening as its blockbuster predecessor, this
more-than-competent sequel raises some interesting questions
about the nature of free will (can the anti-Christ deny his
birthright?) before falling into a gory series of increasingly
outlandish deaths, the best of which is a terrifyingly protracted
scene beneath the ice of a frozen lake. Jerry Goldsmith (who won
an O for his work on the first film in the series)
contributes another marvellously foreboding score. --Andrew
Wright, .com
The series concludes with The Omen III: The Final Conflict,
starring Sam Neill as the adult Damien--aka the son of Satan--in
a battle with the heavens for control of mankind. The film ends
up depending more heavily on effects and spectacle than on the
kind of basic horrors that made the first movie in the series so
unsettling but at least this one gives some closure to the
seemingly endless saga. --Tom Keogh, .com
On the DVDs: On the original movie disc there is an all-new
45-minute documentary, "666: The Omen Revealed", with
contributions from all the major behind-the-scenes players,
including director, editor, screenwriter (who confesses the movie
was only set in England because he wanted a free trip to
London!), producer and composer. The latter, Jerry Goldsmith, has
his O-winning contribution to the movie recognised with a
separate feature in which he talks through four key musical
scenes in the score. There's also a thought-provoking short
called "Curse or Coincidence?" in which the many bizarre
accidents that happened during shooting are related, including
the terrible story of what happened to the girlfriend of the man
responsible for designing the decapitation scene. Director
Richard Donner and editor Stuart Baird provide a chatty audio
commentary to the movie. The second and third films lack as many
extra features, being content with audio commentaries and
theatrical trailers: the commentary for Omen II is by producer
Harvey Bernhard, that for Omen III by director Graham Baker.
--Mark Walker