The Omen

[Rythonn]

Originally Posted by Mimirswell

The Bad Seed (1956)
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Innocents (1961)
Children of the Damned (1964)
The Exorcist (1973)
The Omen (1976)

You have no clue what your talking about.

Ok i'll give youe Bad Seed and Village of the Damned but the innocents and children of the damned while based on children kinda sucked. Exorcist was older not a small child. I guess I shouldn't have said "started", more like to it to the next level. When I think evil small children, I think Children of the Corn, and The Omen.

[Kan]

Trailer pisses me off in a way because it makes Damien out to be something he actually isn't which is blatantly in your face evil (speaking mainly about him waving goodbye to his mom when she falls) in the original he is so young he just doesn't understand so much that he doesn't act like that at all. Hopefully that is the only scene that changes things to a higher degree (yes to me that is a higher degree since it changes the character).


Upon further watchings of the trailers it is looking very much to be modernized =(

[Zanoan]

One thing is I suck at horror movies, another thing is I horribly suck at horror movies with children being the bad guys. They just own me, literally. So I'm really wondering if I should watch this.

Saw a trailer tonight for The Omen before DVC and while it was fairly simple, my god it was effective. You saw the kid swinging at a playground, the chains being rusty and making the sound, him all alone just swinging there. Camera changing from his back going in a half circle keeping a distance of 2 meters or so until you watch from diagonally from his front, he turns his face and has eye contact. My god that trailer freaked me out.

[Vorph]

Originally Posted by Zanoan

So I'm really wondering if I should watch this.

No, you should watch the original.

[randomguy]

Speaking of badass children, anyone here a fan or was a fan of the Children of the Corn series ? Outside of the crazy preachings of a child and his bible, some of the films had some pretty intense death scenes performed by kids.

[Kan]

Originally Posted by randomguy

Speaking of badass children, anyone here a fan or was a fan of the Children of the Corn series ? Outside of the crazy preachings of a child and his bible, some of the films had some pretty intense death scenes performed by kids.

first one is great the rest suck.

[Rythonn]

I remember the kid in the road sitting up scared the hell out of me, of course i was 12 at a friends house.

[Hikaru]

Anyone see this yet? Been out a few days now and I'm suprised no one has bumped this with comparisons to the original

[Darunia]

Originally Posted by Hikaru

Anyone see this yet? Been out a few days now and I'm suprised no one has bumped this with comparisons to the original

Saw it today, wasn't really impressed. It didn't impose the kind of psychological fear from the first film, and kind of relied on images jumping toward the screen (can't think of the correct terminology now). Other than that, I thought Damien got a lot less screen time.

Original is definately better, and if you're not going to see it having your hopes up, it might be worth it.

[Hooby]

I am going to go see this soon, if some people who haven't seen the first could post a similar untainted review of it.

Also, while I have this thread to attract the horror fans, it would be awesome if someone could identify a movie for me... The only things I can remember about it are that the victims were some innocent little white white kids. Then they found some satanic book or something and opened a portal to what must be hell in their backyard (while their parents are on vacation, of course). Me thinks their dog gets killed by a zombie then attacks them later on as a zombie itself, that part freaked me out.

I gotta rewatch that movie;it's the only scary movie I can ever remember actually scaring the shit out of me, but I was only 8 or so when I saw it so that may be why.

[Awanka]

Saw it. Liked it. Very faithful reproduction of the original. Thought the remake sucked in the beginning, but got better as it went along, especially after Julia Stiles died. Excellent cinematography.

[Rathgar]

Originally Posted by Hooby

I am going to go see this soon, if some people who haven't seen the first could post a similar untainted review of it.

Also, while I have this thread to attract the horror fans, it would be awesome if someone could identify a movie for me... The only things I can remember about it are that the victims were some innocent little white white kids. Then they found some satanic book or something and opened a portal to what must be hell in their backyard (while their parents are on vacation, of course). Me thinks their dog gets killed by a zombie then attacks them later on as a zombie itself, that part freaked me out.

I gotta rewatch that movie;it's the only scary movie I can ever remember actually scaring the shit out of me, but I was only 8 or so when I saw it so that may be why.

Sounds like "The Gate" to me.

[Darunia]

Originally Posted by Awanka

Saw it. Liked it. Very faithful reproduction of the original. Thought the remake sucked in the beginning, but got better as it went along, especially after Julia Stiles died. Excellent cinematography.

Going to have to disagree with you on this. There were a few bad editing mistakes. Right when the scene of Damien playing video games, the Boom Mic (Correct Terminology?) is in every shot. Sometimes un-noticable, other times painfully obvious. It occurs though the movie at random times, but I never caught sight of it at the horror/suspense scenes.The camera shield (protection from elements) can also be seen in some ariel shots.

Now, before you go off saying the boom mic was the projectioner's fault, the remake of the Omen was shot in Scope (anamorphic), and not in "Flat" (shot in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio (almost the same as a standard TV), but it's framed for 1.85:1.). Either that, or I'm wrong and it was a lowsy projectionist who didn't want to slide the masking between the light source and the film.

[Musab]

Originally Posted by Rathgar

Sounds like "The Gate" to me.

Sure is. That flick is a trip...

The Gate

[Awanka]

Originally Posted by Darunia

Going to have to disagree with you on this. There were a few bad editing mistakes. Right when the scene of Damien playing video games, the Boom Mic (Correct Terminology?) is in every shot. Sometimes un-noticable, other times painfully obvious. It occurs though the movie at random times, but I never caught sight of it at the horror/suspense scenes.The camera shield (protection from elements) can also be seen in some ariel shots.

Now, before you go off saying the boom mic was the projectioner's fault, the remake of the Omen was shot in Scope (anamorphic), and not in "Flat" (shot in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio (almost the same as a standard TV), but it's framed for 1.85:1.). Either that, or I'm wrong and it was a lowsy projectionist who didn't want to slide the masking between the light source and the film.

You're right. Cinematography was the wrong word to use. I liked the scenery, and the atmosphere, and look of the movie itself, the overcloudy vistas, the monastery, and cemetary taken right out of goth's wet dream. The mansion they lived in. The sets they used were good, it created a great mood.