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- 6 wins & 9 nominations total
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- TriviaHarvey Stephens, as Damien, was largely chosen for this role from the way he attacked Richard Donner during auditions. Donner asked all the little boys to "come at him" as if they were attacking Katherine Thorn during the church wedding scene. Stephens screamed and clawed at Donner's face, and kicked him in the groin during his act. Donner whipped the kid off him, ordered the kid's blond hair dyed black and cast him as Damien.
- Goofs(at around 1h 26 mins) Toward the end of the film, Jennings says that the place name Megiddo derives from the term Armageddon. Actually, it is the other way around - "Armageddon" is a bastardization of "Har Megiddo", which, in Hebrew, means simply "mountain of Megiddo". According to Revelation 16:16, this would be the site of the last battle in history.
- Quotes
Young nanny: Look at me, Damien! It's all for you.
[she jumps off a roof, hanging herself]
- Crazy creditsClosing credits epilogue: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666."
Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18
- Alternate versionsIn the Swedish version, the scene showing Jennings being decapitated has been cut by 11 seconds.
- ConnectionsFeatured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Episode #6.3 (1976)
Featured review
Classic. You bring the devil to your film and do it well, then you're competing with The Omen as much as you are The Exorcist, which to this day are arguably still the gold standards when it comes to Beelzebub showing up on screen.
Also a benchmark for creepy music adding additional creep: Gregorian chants start as a murmur, and built to a ratcheted intensity that simply put the film way over the top in the best possible way. This was 1976, remember, so what you'll get - and I'd say as an added bonus - is the very Seventies look and feel that movies had during this very unique era.
When Peck exhumes the grave, and when the film closes with young Damien smiling, the hair on one's back shoots through the roof. The Omen is simply all-time.
Also a benchmark for creepy music adding additional creep: Gregorian chants start as a murmur, and built to a ratcheted intensity that simply put the film way over the top in the best possible way. This was 1976, remember, so what you'll get - and I'd say as an added bonus - is the very Seventies look and feel that movies had during this very unique era.
When Peck exhumes the grave, and when the film closes with young Damien smiling, the hair on one's back shoots through the roof. The Omen is simply all-time.
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- La profecía
- Filming locations
- Guildford Cathedral, Guildford, Surrey, England, UK(Where the wedding was being held)
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- Budget
- $2,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,922,980
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $4,273,886
- Jun 27, 1976
- Gross worldwide
- $60,922,980
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