Monday, June 12, 2006

The Omen. 662006. Is that what the mark says? Well either way, scary little Damien is back just in time for a creepy date. The story is pretty simple: a couple are about to have a baby, baby dies, husband replaces baby with jackal-born demon child who begins killing people to eventually cause Armageddon. The end. Now for some reason the audience kept laughing at all the scariest moments, as if they weren’t scary at all but actually funny for trying to be scary. How will they ever understand the fear brought on by a cute wittle boy with slightly chubby cheeks who wears a red shirt in that one scene. It’s a red shirt!!! That's so creepy! In one scene, there is a dream sequence where Damien has got strawberry jelly on his face and he's got his little bear-claws out screaming "rraaahhhh". I almost lost it. So scary! They did have a scene or two added for a "boo" effect like something jumping out and a few gory moments but the fear from this movie lay with the pouty face wittle demon-boy. Awwwwe… Damien wants to kill everybody… awwwwe. This movie was okay. I’d give it 2 1/2 out of 5 butters. One for each pinchable little cheek and 1/2 for the red shirt.

5 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I had a nightmare about this movie and I have not seen it yet. Are you sure it isn't scary? I heard a lot of people laughed at the scary parts from other people, but they said it was scary anyway. Ebert Roeper two thumbs up.

10:51 AM  
Blogger butterchurn said...

I think it was creepy because of the subject matter, not because of the actual scenes of the movie. Those were a bit too movie-ish and not really believable enough to be scary.

12:14 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Well, I guess I won't see it. Especially with the low number of butters. The 70's version was scary because the scenes were creepy. Acting in 70's hollywood films was more fluid and less mechanical then it seems now. Back in the 70's you had no idea where the camera would end up or the actors might depart to.

4:11 PM  
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2:14 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I use to think I was the female version of Damien because I didn't like church. And one day I shaved my head and saw 999. whew, close one.

10:27 PM  

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