Damien: Omen II

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.

Acts like a cheesy slasher sequel, but foolishly mistakes itself as a serious thriller. aaaaaaarrggg covers everything in his (her?) review. Evidently there are two kinds of people. Those that associate Meshach Taylor with Designing Women, and those that think, "That guy from The Howling, The Beast Within, and God forgive him, Damien: Omen II."

The mechanical structure (person discovers something, person dies) is rather comical, and most of the deaths are just too silly. Minimal effort to convey some struggle on the part of the protagonist but his characterisation could have been thought about much more. Goldsmith's effort here is jauntier, but actually in some sequences I preferred it to the way his score was used in the first movie. Subplot about profiting from famine really goes nowhere: was Monsanto inspired by Thorn Industries?

The Omen crossed with FInal Destination, and, minus a few clever death sequences (namely the elevator bifurcation), pretty lame. Certainly nowhere near as good as the original. It felt much longer than its two-hour runtime.

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.

Nothing really happens, but there are some damn funny scenes to laugh at.

Great follow up to the original movie 
Seven years after the ending of the original Omen 
Damien is living with his rich powerful uncle and going to military school 
The effects probably seem silly to today’s audience and I can admit they do seem a bit over the top 
But for a 70’s film
(I feel) like they hold up really well 
My favorite scenes when the guy falls through the ice and 
I also love the scene where Damien realizes he’s the devil

The elevator death scene is, in a Final Destination entertaining kind of way, better than any of the deaths in the original. Besides that, a wet fart. Way to not use Lance Henriksen at all.

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.

Cost twice as much to make as the original yet looks cheaper, Damien was clearly a sequel rushed into production to capitalise on the brief demonic kid trend.Taylor generates little suspense and tries to one-up Donner by offering hammy over the top deaths, which misses the point and fails to have emotional impact because we have no connection to the characters. The acting is uniformly bad, there is very little story development and Goldsmith's work is considerably less impactful.

I Was A Teenage Antichrist.

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.

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.

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.

okay movie

Dispensable.

(Blu-ray rewatch)

There is some potential for an interesting story in the Antichrist's coming of age but Omen II comes out mostly as pointless setup that leads nowhere to the rhythm of variously random & wacky death scenes. Severely lacking in both narrative thrust and characterisation. Could be funny if it weren't so boring and formal.

Extremely slow moving movie with no tension. Aside from the sometimes gory death this reminds me of a '70s TV movie. The boy who plays Damien us pretty lame and Lee Grant acts like she's in an episode of some soap opera.

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Never really saw much in the first movie, but at the age of 13, you'd think that a movie could do a lot with a walking, talking, antichrist. Unfortunately, like a lot of 70's horror movies, "Damien" leans heavily into the horror of anticipation rather than actual depictions of horrific things or acts. If there's any praise I have for this movie, it's that this one is just as good as about a million other horror sequels.

Even worse than the first one

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.

A great follow up to the original

57.500

I find the prospect of following the Devil-child in sequels as he grows up and becomes more powerful to be a neat hook for a series, but the choice to have Damien be unaware that he's the antichrist and only learn that fact midway through the movie seems like the wrong creative choice. I mostly watched this one so that I could get to Omen III because I'm probably way too excited to see Damien grow up to be Sam Neill. I'm very eager to see him go sicko mode in this role.

Not as "iconic" as the original, but flashier and more fun. Same structure -- everyone who gets anywhere near of exposing him bizarrely dies --, but he's now a pre-teen, puberty getting crazy alongside discovery of powers and some military and corporate dudes helping him rise to power. Sense of dread out of ordinary stuff works -- bro's birthday or D answering questions from a teacher -- and deaths are cool -- doc on elevator, reporter attacked by raven and killed by a truck. Meh climax, though.

Damien is growing up and it's time for him to learn his destiny. Anyone who gets in the way, beware! Intermittently effective sequel offers some amusing shock scenes and a good performance from William Holden. It is a bit of a letdown from the 1976 classic, however.

kheili bad. kheili mozakhraf

Em honra do centenário de Don Taylor. Nem lembro quando ri tanto quanto assistindo esse filme, as cenas que deveriam ser tensas parecem saídas de novela mexicana. BlurayRip RARBG.

Not bad.

It isn't the classic the first one is, but there're still enough scares and creepy atmosphere to go around.

Hokey schlock that exists in a fantasy dimension. Consistently elevated by the ridiculous deaths every 10 minutes and how the forces of good are always portrayed as gibbering lunatics.

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.

absurd, pointless, and funny. pure camp. the semiotics are way more meaningful this time around, though the construction feels pretty basic because the film is stuffed with mundane dialogue

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

Slow, but there were a few solid kills.

Satan continues his overprotective parenting; and the now teenaged Damien has to leave his childhood behind, and accept his true identity ("WHYY!? WHY MEE!?"). The resulting body count is 11, if I calculated correctly. Too bad Damien: Omen II is missing all the effectiveness and narrative thrust of it's predecessor. What is left is a very boring and cheesy accumulation of "dramatic" death scenes devoid of anything exciting or purposeful. At least it has Holden and Henriksen playing it straight.

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.

a more engaging film but still turbulent in narrative and timing. crosses into camp with its obviousness but that's fun