The Omen is Richard Donner’s 1976 breakthrough film, and it's easily one of the most chilling films ever made. The film's success made Donner a household name and paved the way for him to direct huge Hollywood blockbusters, like Superman, Lethal Weapon and Goonies. The film centers around American ambassador Robert Thorn (played by Gregory Peck), and his wife, Katherine (played by Lee Remick), who want nothing more than to have a child. At the film’s opening, we learn that Thorn’s wife has had a stillbirth, which only Robert knows of, since Katherine passed out during labor. Torn by the news, Thorn encounters a priest in the hospital who tells him of a healthy newborn whose mother died during childbirth and has no living relatives, suggesting that Robert take the child and raise it as his own. Thorn agrees to take the child and never mentions anything about their son’s origins to his wife. Five years later, when mysterious deaths surround the family, Thorn begins to wonder if the child he and his wife are raising could be the son of the Devil, the Antichrist. But could it be real, or all in his head?
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