The Omen (1976) [Collector's Edition]
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scans | 01:50:56 | 7,55 Gb + 7,48 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps; Spanish, French - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Mystery
2xDVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 16:9 | Cover + DVD Scans | 01:50:56 | 7,55 Gb + 7,48 Gb
Audio: English AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps; Spanish, French - AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Spanish
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: Richard Donner
Stars: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, Harvey Stephens
Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.
We all know that some kids can be like the devil, but in the case of Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in this 1976 horror classic (man, I hate to use that overused word but it really applies here) their kid actually is the Devil. Well, the son of, technically.
Of course they don't know that—at least not right away—and actually the young boy named Damien (Harvey Stephens) isn't really their biological child. In a case of "when in Rome, don't do what the Romans do," it seems American diplomat dad-to-be Robert Thorn (Peck) is coerced into agreeing to accept the just-born infant after wife Katherine Thorn (Remick) loses their baby during childbirth in a Rome hospital.
Raising the Antichrist is apparently a monumentally tough gig, and under the guidance of director Richard Donner—in what was essentially his first major feature film before things like Superman and the Lethal Weapon series—the parental pitfalls reach increasingly nasty proportions as warnings are given, people die (including a mighty fine decapitation scene) and poor Gregory Peck has to eventually come to terms with what must be done to save the world.
This new two-disc collector's edition sports an improved transfer, making Donner's film look far better than it ever has before, and all of the mounting tension plays as well and looks just as good today as it did in 1976. Sure, part of the re-release is no doubt a marketing flash to cash in on the bigscreen remake (which is, by the way, a sacrilege), but the improvements made on the transfer make this worth the double dip if you already own the single-disc special edition.
The trouble with too many horror films, especially those made in the 1970s, is that they rarely stand up to the so-called test of time, and often become jokey "this is what passed for scary back then" exercises when shown to modern-day jaded viewers. But Donner's direction of the David Seltzer (Prophecy, Lucas) screenplay operates just outside the usual umbrella of purely effects-driven horror, and with actors the caliber of Peck and David Warner, there is plenty of room for great somber emoting that is well above typical genre stuff, and the comparatively modest effects pieces work well under a story that builds supernatural tension with things like menacing dogs, and nannies that like to hang themselves at children's birthday parties.
I never put much stock in the assorted sequels that followed in the years after The Omen, because there was never really anything amongst the assorted followups that could come close to uncorking the same level of well-crafted horror, literally dripping with dark, apocalyptic religious themes. For a mainstream Hollywood feature, Donner birthed a bona fide classic—there's that damn word again—with The Omen; for it to be able to retain the same bristly satanic suspense, even in this era of more refined and elaborate effects-driven pictures, is really saying something.
This new two-disc set repeats some of the same extras found on the last SE, but the transfer has really been improved upon and the highlight of the new supplements is another Donner commentary and the 101 minute The Omen Legacy doc. The Omen-made all the way back in 1976—holds up exceptionally well as one genuinely scary mainstream Hollywood horror film, and even though the flow of the sequels never quite had the same spooky magic, this one delivers every time.
Highly recommended.
Special Features:
DISC ONE:
The Film
Audio commentary by director Richard Donner and editor Stuard Baird
Audio commentary by director Richard Donner, moderated by Brian Helgeland
DISC TWO:
"666: The Omen Revealed" documentary (~46min)
"Curse or Coincidence" featurette (~6min)
"Jerry Goldsmith on The Omen score" featurette
"Dog Attack" deleted scene (with optional audio commentary by director Richard Donner)
"An Appreciation – Wes Craven On The Omen" featurette
"The Omen Legacy" documentary (~101 min)
"The Screenwriter's Notebook" featurette
"Film introduction by director Richard Donner" featurette
Still galleries
Theatrical trailer
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