The Omen (2006) (R)

Unintentionally funny horror remake. So very bad.

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Movie details
  • Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
  • Directed By: John Moore
  • Cast: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles
  • Running Time: 105 minutes
  • Release Date: 6/6/2006
  • Video/DVD Release Date: 10/17/2006
  • Genre: Horror
  • MPAA Rating: R
  • MPAA Explanation: or disturbing violent content, graphic images and some language.

Parents need to know

Parents need to know that the film concerns the antichrist and the "end of days," and uses brief images of recent disasters (9/11, Katrina) to suggest the time is near. The film includes extreme violence and bloody images of deaths engineered by Satan/evil forces; the most gruesome images include characters speared and beheaded and a knockdown fight between a father and the nanny. The film also includes a mother saying she wants to abort her second child, seeing a psychiatrist, being terrorized and injured by her son (a scary fall from a balcony), and a father's decision to kill his own young son. The film also contains some strong language, including two uses of the f-word.

Families can talk about the appeal of horror movies. Why are they so popular, especially with teens? Is gory the same thing as scary?

Message

Social Behavior:

No one acts very admirably.

Consumerism:

Drugs/Alcohol/Tobacco:

Reporter smokes cigarettes a couple of times.

Violence

Deaths are bloody, grotesque, and explicit (car explodes and burns passenger, men speared and decapitated by falling architecture); big loud dogs attack several characters; woman hangs herself off a rooftop in public; mother falls from balcony, with flailing limbs and plaintive scream (this might bother younger viewers even more than the bloody stuff); nanny poisons and throttles incapacitated woman in hospital bed; father tries to kill his son (using multiple knives, inside a church).-

Sex

Katherine appears in a tub, but nudity is only implied.

Language

Two f-words, one "damn," one "hell," frequent discussions of God and Satan, lots of screaming in fear and fury.

Common Sense says

What's the story?

Reviewed by Cynthia Fuchs

John Moore's remake of the 1976 original focuses on the vulnerable mother Katherine (Julia Stiles). When she loses her own baby during childbirth at a Roman hospital, an odious priest and her U.S. ambassador husband Robert (Liev Schreiber) arrange to hide this awful tragedy from her and give her the substitute child. The baby is Damien (Shamus Davey-Fitzpatrick), the son of the devil. While Kate is left pretty much alone, Robert heads to the embassy, where he's accosted by gaunt Father Brennan (Pete Postlethwaite). Unnerved but unmoved, Robert does eventually believe the "evidence" presented to him by dogged journalist Keith Jennings (David Thewlis). Together, they travel the globe in search of "answers," namely, how to dispose of this monstrous child.

Is it any good?

1

Loud and ludicrous, THE OMEN (2006) makes its distinctions between good and evil clear upfront: The sweet, suffering mother is sadly doomed, while the devil who connives to have her raise his son is dark and crafty. This showdown is occasioned by the arrival of the antichrist, here in the form of a cute-seeming infant, foretold by "signs" that include the 9/11 attacks and Katrina (these glimpsed in brief news clips).

As Damian finds ways to torment Kate (mostly by glaring at her or hiding in the park), she becomes the audience's point of identification. That said, she's saddled with a wardrobe that alternates between grim and stuffy (official-wife suits or blood-red garments) and looks lost in the stark, too-spacious interiors in the couple's new abode in London. Condemned to the usual girl-in-a-horror-movie antics, Kate is beset on all sides, not least by a scary nanny (Mia Farrow) who comes with her own scary dog. The men's actions, however, remain less compelling than the mother's melodrama. Poor Kate: She distrusts her child and shouldn't trust her husband. She doesn't have a chance.

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Parents and kids say

All Reviews

There are 10 reviews.

Age 13+
5


Posted on 05/24/08 by Chris LP Adult contributor

Not R rated stuff

This is a great movie. Definately should have been rated PG-13. There is not any sex, there is moderate bloody violence, and the language is very brief. The only issue would be if Catholics get offended by the occult subject matter and I am Catholic and I was not offended in the least. I cannot say the same for my mother, who was deeply offended, but she has gotten over it.
0


Posted on 10/29/06 by colon Kid contributor, age 10

4


Posted on 07/28/06 by suitelife Kid contributor, age 12

Awesome

Really Good remake
Age 17+
4


Posted on 06/28/06 by two Adult contributor

4


Posted on 06/22/06 by moviefanatic411 Kid contributor, age 15

Good Remake

Good for kids 15 and up
Age 11+
5


Posted on 06/21/06 by a_rayment Adult contributor

Great movie, but not R material

i went to this movie expecting it to be like the first, a little dull, but extremely violent! but this movie was a lot better than the first with an interesting storyline, but it did hold back on the violence a little bit. the gory scenes are a piercing by a spear, a head being decapitated by a falling sign, a woman falls about 40 feet in her home, a bubble is injected into an IV tube, a car explodes, a woman is run over by a car, and people are chased by dogs. everything else about the movie is fine.
5


Posted on 06/11/06 by Hermes Kid contributor, age 11

Excellent! Well...

This movie was good, but I have seen many bad movies, so my sense of good/bad movies is somewhat deadened. It had an enteresting story and I personally liked it, but I would not reccomend this movie to anyone else my age, as for it's violence. -Hermes
4

Posted on 06/09/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 12

Scariest movie of the year!

This movie had more jumpy parts than I could count. I think this movie is ok for kids my age as long as they are mature. There are two gory images, a stabbing and a decapitation, both brief and done by falling decorations. There is one disturbing scene in a hospital room, but like I said, mature kids can handle it. It's very scary but is a good remake of the classic original. A horror-lovers must-see movie.
1

Posted on 06/06/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 13

i laughed....

this movie was in a way sad because of how unintentially funnny it was. i cant believe i paid for this movie. it sucked. the only good part was when katherine was in the tub.
Age 17+
0

Posted on 06/06/06 by Anonymous Adult contributor

See all 10 reviews >

Adult Reviews

There are 4 reviews.

Age 13+
5


Posted on 05/24/08 by Chris LP Adult contributor

Not R rated stuff

This is a great movie. Definately should have been rated PG-13. There is not any sex, there is moderate bloody violence, and the language is very brief. The only issue would be if Catholics get offended by the occult subject matter and I am Catholic and I was not offended in the least. I cannot say the same for my mother, who was deeply offended, but she has gotten over it.
Age 17+
4


Posted on 06/28/06 by two Adult contributor

Age 11+
5


Posted on 06/21/06 by a_rayment Adult contributor

Great movie, but not R material

i went to this movie expecting it to be like the first, a little dull, but extremely violent! but this movie was a lot better than the first with an interesting storyline, but it did hold back on the violence a little bit. the gory scenes are a piercing by a spear, a head being decapitated by a falling sign, a woman falls about 40 feet in her home, a bubble is injected into an IV tube, a car explodes, a woman is run over by a car, and people are chased by dogs. everything else about the movie is fine.
Age 17+
0

Posted on 06/06/06 by Anonymous Adult contributor

Kids Reviews

There are 6 reviews.

0


Posted on 10/29/06 by colon Kid contributor, age 10

4


Posted on 07/28/06 by suitelife Kid contributor, age 12

Awesome

Really Good remake
4


Posted on 06/22/06 by moviefanatic411 Kid contributor, age 15

Good Remake

Good for kids 15 and up
5


Posted on 06/11/06 by Hermes Kid contributor, age 11

Excellent! Well...

This movie was good, but I have seen many bad movies, so my sense of good/bad movies is somewhat deadened. It had an enteresting story and I personally liked it, but I would not reccomend this movie to anyone else my age, as for it's violence. -Hermes
4

Posted on 06/09/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 12

Scariest movie of the year!

This movie had more jumpy parts than I could count. I think this movie is ok for kids my age as long as they are mature. There are two gory images, a stabbing and a decapitation, both brief and done by falling decorations. There is one disturbing scene in a hospital room, but like I said, mature kids can handle it. It's very scary but is a good remake of the classic original. A horror-lovers must-see movie.
1

Posted on 06/06/06 by Anonymous Kid contributor, age 13

i laughed....

this movie was in a way sad because of how unintentially funnny it was. i cant believe i paid for this movie. it sucked. the only good part was when katherine was in the tub.
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