A very solid follow-up to the original Omen movie. This sees Damien as a young man in military academy, learning the full extent of his power and abilities. There are a variety of inventive and gory deaths, but the real joy is in seeing Damien from care-free young boy to satan.

I don't know Damien growing into the devil just not as effective for me as a creepy toddler

Better than most horror-sequels but still an aimless and uninteresting copy of the first instalment. The death scenes are particularly heavy-handed. I know it's a classical complaint that horror films 'aren't scary', but a woman attacked by birds and then being run over by a truck, a man drowning under the ice and a guy smashed by a train isn't the most original approach to the genre. And the demonic music that precursors each death does little to hamper the predictability of the whole thing.

Fans of _The Omen_ will note that Damien's victims are killed or nearly killed in typically grisly fashion every ten minutes or so.

Yeah, this one doesn't really work at all. Perhaps it was ambitious to try and make an epic out of little Damien, but here he has to be played by a spoiled freckled brat with no sense of acting at all. Add to that William Holden at his most stiff, Lee Grant's hysterics, Leo McKern's mumblings and a terribly incoherent, rushed mess of an ending and you get a boring snore fest. Not even the killings can add some excitement to it.

It follows pretty much exactly the same formula as the first film, although it lacks the subtlety that made the original work so well. The deaths are more frequent and more violent, lessening the impact somewhat. That said, I found the one with the crow attack more shocking than anything in the The Birds. Overall, it's not bad, but maybe there's just something inherently creepier about a satanic toddler as opposed to a moody teenager.

Dispensable.

It felt like the creators of this movie were struggling constantly to take what was great about the original and somehow make something new out of it. On the whole, they failed. The story was loose and uninteresting save for a couple of scenes, and the ending was supremely anticlimactic.

not half bad for a low-rent horror sequel. i blame the 80s.

Can't quite live up to the first one. I think Scott-Taylor does a pretty decent job as Damien, but the aspect of dialog takes a lot away from what the character was in the last movie. Really, this one is cheaper than the first, relying on cheesy deaths that completely suck in comparison to the previous film.

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Doesn't live up to the original, and has some very cheesy and stupid death scenes. The Omen did not need a sequel in the first place.

Not bad.

Flirts with some interesting ideas, but rather than follow through with their dramatic potential it sees fit to just copy the original - upping the anty on gimmicky deaths yet sucking away any investment in the story.

(Blu-ray rewatch)

Good sequel. Predictably, whenever anyone catches on to Damien's true identity, they meet a ghastly end, the best being Shepherd's encounter with a bloodthirsty raven and Ayres drowning under an icy lake. Good score by Jerry Goldsmith; look for Meshach Taylor of "Designing Women" as the young doctor cut in half by an elevator cable.

A few cool, gory deaths, and a nice job by William Holden in a similar role as Gregory Peck in the original. Unfortunately, it doesn't become suspenseful or interesting until the final 20 minutes, and in the meantime, we are treated to Damian's teenage angst and boring scholastic interactions, all of which make him completely unmenacing. And while I mentioned some of the deaths were cool, a few were plain awful. Overall, it's a mediocre picture.