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The Omen (2006) DVD Review
The Omen (2006) DVD Credits:
The Omen (2006) Directed by:
John Moore
The Omen (2006) Written by:
Dan McDermott
The Omen (2006) Cast:
Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Mia Farrow, Michael Gambon, Pete Postlethwaite, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles, David Thewlis
The Omen (2006) Released by:
Not available at this time
Region:
1
The Omen (2006) DVD Release Date:
16th October 2006
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The Omen (2006) Synopsis:

A remake of the 1976 horror classic, the new film takes the tale of the coming of the antichrist – personified as a young boy named Damien – to an even more thrilling and visceral level.

The Omen (2006) DVD Review:

Using a child as the horrific element in a film doesn’t seem as remarkable with the release of the 2006 remake of The Omen as it must have been upon the original film’s release. With the trend of using children ghosts in Asian horror film and the subsequent trend in remaking these films in Hollywood, audiences have grown used to seeing innocent young children made to be something fearful. The Omen does itself a service by keeping Damien, the child antichrist, from speaking much. The less that the child says and the more he just gives his intense looks, the more menacing he seems. Ordinarily children around the age of Damien can’t keep quiet, so it is disconcerting that he hardly says a word the entire film.

The marketing heads must have had a field day with the timely decision to remake The Omen, planning the release perfectly on June 6th, 2006. There were billboards which simply read 6.6.06, with no explanation that it was advertisement for the film, in which the antichrist is born at exactly six a.m. on June 6th. The only problem with the logic behind this is that it adds another six to the equation. Three sixes are the supposed sign of the devil, but what is four? This is an irrelevant detail fro the film, but it might show that there was a gimmick which helped to bring forth another unnecessary remake.

Liev Schreiber and Julia Stiles are a prominent political couple who are having a baby. When their child dies during childbirth they take a child whose mother died. This baby is Damien, played by newcomer Seamus Davey Fitzpatrick. It’s a relief to see him acting like a normal child in the special features because he is rather convincing in the film.

The story updates well, but there isn’t much that needs changing. The story has a timeless quality in settings that aren’t supposed to change as each decade passes, which makes for a film which has few changed scenes. With this being the case the question must arise as to the reason it was updated, aside from the ideal release date. Films which are remade in order to update the story make much more sense, but otherwise it just seems lazy. What it does do is give the filmmakers to use modern special effects, which are great at times and predictably unimpressive when it is bad CGI.

The DVD has a commentary track with John Moore, Glenn Williamson and Dan Zimmerman, director, producer and editor respectively. Omenisms has director John Moore complaining about all of the problems on set and blaming them on the curse of The Omen. The first film had far worse accidents, which make these inconveniences, but it is still creepy. Abbey Road Sessions is a featurette about the score which was recorded in the Abbey Roads Studios. Revelations 666 is a documentary about the possible truth behind 666, and the end times. They have experts like card players and film scholars telling stories and giving opinions. There are also alternate scenes for the grislier deaths and a more intense ending as well.

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The Omen (2006) DVD review written by: Ryan Izay

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