The Omen

Say your prayers, Damien has been born, and is about to possess a DVD near you… Thirty years after the original film was released, John Moore’s reimagining of the 1976 classic, The Omen, is released to buy and rent on DVD on 23rd October 2006 by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

The Book of Revelation prophesises the arrival of the Antichrist, who is branded with the numerical sequence ‘666’ – the mark of the Beast. He will receive his power directly from Satan, and his coming will signal the beginning of Armageddon…

Diplomat Robert Thorn (Liev Schreiber, The Manchurian Candidate) is unaware of such prophecies as he comforts his wife, who has endured a difficult delivery. After suffering two previous miscarriages, Katherine (Julia Stiles, The Bourne Supremacy) is still unaware that their newborn child has died, and the news will devastate her. Desperate for a child, and to spare his wife any more anguish, Robert is convinced by a local priest to take another baby born that night and pretend it is their own. This child’s mother died in childbirth, and Katherine will easily believe it is theirs. They call the boy Damien, and raise him as their own. Robert’s career goes from strength to strength, and soon he is promoted to U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain. The Thorns lives are near-perfect, until little Damien’s fifth birthday party. His nanny hangs herself in front of all the children, and this is just the start of the macabre events that seem to multiply around the boy. The ominous atmosphere comes to a climax when Robert is besieged by a manic priest (Pete Postlethwaite, Dark Water) who warns that something is wrong, VERY wrong, with Damien.

Under the tutelage of a new, extremely devoted nanny, Mrs Baylock (Mia Farrow, Rosemary’s Baby), the “accidents” that surround Damien take a more domestic turn, and it seems not even his parents are safe from the malevolence that surrounds him. Slowly Thorn starts to realise that Father Brennan’s warnings may hold some truth, Damien is no ordinary child. This five year-old boy is the son of the devil….

DVD special features include a commentary by John Moore, Glen Williamson and Dan Zimmerman, a 50 minute ‘making of’ featurette, two extended scenes, and an alternate ending.

The Omen Pentology (£59.99 RRP), which includes The Omen, The Omen 30th Anniversary Special Edition and remastered versions of Damien: Omen II, Omen III: The Final Conflict and Omen IV: The Awakening, is also released on 23rd October.

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