The Omen (1976)
During the 1970s, a slew of Satanic panic films were made to cash in on the craze of the time. You know: kids gone wild, everything is the devil's fault... The usual stuff. The things they keep recycling every few years when everything else seemed to have failed, as they did in 1999 as well. Now 'The Omen' is often mentioned in the exact same breath as 'The Exorcist' and 'Rosemary's Baby' and even though this film is certainly good (for the time and subject matter), it is by far the least of those three. It lacks the shock value and memorable scenes of the first and it definitely lacks the suspense and dread of the latter. You can't win them all, I guess. Diplomat Thorne (Peck) is in Italy when his wife gives birth to their child. Turns out the baby died shortly after and to avoid hurting his wife, he swaps his child for a very healthy baby who happened to have been born at the exact same time. Well, the dodgy looking priest is quite persistent in...
