Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events – and the ominous warnings of a priest – lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

The Omen (1976)
  • Rating: (40,604 votes)
  • Taglines:OUR FINAL WARNING. » It is the greatest mystery of all because no human being will ever solve it. »
  • Runtime:111 minutes
  • Director: Richard Donner
  • Countries:UK, USA
  • Actors:
    Robert Thorn
    Gregory Peck
    Katherine Thorn
    Lee Remick
    Jennings
    David Warner
    Mrs. Baylock
    Billie Whitelaw
    Damien
    Harvey Stephens
    Father Brennan
    Patrick Troughton
    Father Spiletto
    Martin Benson
    Monk
    Robert Rietty
    Priest
    Tommy Duggan
    The Psychiatrist
    John Stride
  • Genres:Horror, Mystery
  • Producers:
    Harvey Bernhard
    producer  
    Mace Neufeld
    executive producer  
    Charles Orme
    associate producer  
  • Plots: Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. They are happily married and he is the US Ambassador to Great Britain, but they want more than to have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggests that they take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees. After relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate. Written by garykmcd
The Omen
  • User's comment: by didi-5

    The first and best in the series of films about devil-child Damien teamed a great cast (Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Patrick Troughton, Billie Whitelaw) with Harvey Stephens in a chilling performance as the child.

    The deaths most of the cast meet are inventive and in some cases, memorable for many years after viewing the film - giving the opportunity for some unusual and striking visuals, while the whole film is soaked in that loud Goldsmith score to great effect.

    The sequels, alas, were poor in comparison, but 'The Omen' stands alone of its type of seventies horror schlock.


  • Quotes: Father Brennan: When the Jews return to Zion / And a comet rips the sky / And the Holy Roman Empire rises, / Then You and I must die. / From the eternal sea he rises, / Creating armies on either shore, / Turning man against his brother / 'Til man exists no more. Father Spiletto: [voiceover] The child is dead. He breathed for a moment. Then he breathed no more. The child is dead. Dead. The child is dead. Kathy Thorn: Something in mind, Mr. Ambassador?
  • Also known as: La profecía (Argentina), La profecía (Mexico), La profecía (Peru - imdb display title), La profecía (Spain), Omen (Japan), Omen (Poland), Omen (Sweden), Das Omen (Austria), Das Omen (West Germany), Ómen (Hungary - imdb display title), A Profecia (Brazil), Ennustus (Finland), I profiteia (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Il presagio (Italy), Kehanet (Turkey - Turkish title), La malédiction (France), O Génio do Mal (Portugal - imdb display title), Omen I ( - undefined, reissue title), Omen I: The Antichrist ( - undefined, reissue title), Omen I: The Birthmark ( - undefined, reissue title), Predskazanje (Serbia - imdb display title), Spådom (Finland - imdb display title, Swedish title), Tegnet (Denmark - imdb display title), The Antichrist (USA - working title), The Birthmark (USA - working title), Zenklas (Lithuania - imdb display title),

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