There is a sense of dominance, the silhouetted child remaining above the cross, the film’s refusal to move from this image delivering a devastating sense of foreshadowing – evil always wins.

| Jun 8, 2024

Richard Donner's feature directorial debut goes hard (so does Jerry Goldsmith's Oscar winning score), with a number of truly amazing set pieces. This holds up better than you may remember!

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2024

Director Richard Donner hasn't the subtlety of a Hitchcock or even a Friedkin, but if you believe that the ends justify the means, you have to give him credit.

| May 9, 2023

The gory bits are like jalapeno peppers sprinkled over oatmeal; even the most nostalgically devoted fans need to ask themselves if it would be so dear to their hearts were it not for the ornate atrocities set to Jerry Goldsmith’s shrieking choir.

| Original Score: C | Aug 30, 2022

Rich with forbidding details and impressive scare tactics.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 30, 2020

[It's] directed by Richard Donner at a pace that creates moods of fear punctuated by sly and devilish humor. The climactic scene alone should win him any award for which he is nominated; it is, perhaps, the most chilling final 20 minutes ever put on film.

| May 26, 2020

The Omen delivers splendidly.

| Oct 31, 2019

Gregory Peck takes everything pitch-perfect seriously. This is one of his best performances.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 21, 2019

One of the finest horror films of the 1970s.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 19, 2019

Richard Donner has narrated this horrifying story in a humdrum style that only at times reaches acceptable levels, thanks to Gil Taylor's cinematography and the anonymous labor of the special effects technicians. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 18, 2019

A good movie, that changed the guidelines of horror movies, becoming a huge blockbuster. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 28, 2019

Much of the film is terrific, unnerving stuff; but much of it is kind of loopy and much too silly to take even a little seriously.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 25, 2015

The Omen contains some of the most memorable untimely deaths in cinema history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 29, 2014

Stands alone as a wonderful horror thriller.

| Oct 31, 2013

Entertaining and yes, still ominous after all these years. A landmark of satanic cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2012

Richard Donner directs more for speed than mood, but there are a few good shocks.

| Oct 9, 2012

It was the performance of Harvey Stephens as the young Damien that invested the film with the chill of genuine credibility.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 9, 2012

All references to prophecy and the Antichrist aside, The Omen achieves its horrors the old fashioned way.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 9, 2012

Silly and bloody, but at times very effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2012

Gory original Satanism saga; popular but plodding.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 15, 2010