Damien: Omen II

hey, we've all been there.

Now, the first sequel, Damien Omen 2, was released two years later in 1978, and it picks up the story seven years after the original.

Damien is now 13 years old, and in this film, he discovers that he is indeed the Antichrist.

And at first, he feels bad, but then later, he kind of gets into it.

Okay, then Omen 3, The Final Conflict.

Here we have Sam Neill playing the adult Damien who's now ready to finally fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist.

And oh, but but first, he can't do that yet, because the first thing he has to do is he has to stop the second coming of the real Christ.

OK, so it's a it's a knockdown, drag out fight between Christ and Antichrist, except one of them is a 32 year old man and the other is a baby.

Also, the Omen series has been kind of in my family since.

Since I learned like Omen 2 was filmed, a part of it was filmed in northern Wisconsin on a lake that we stay when we go over there.

And so like the Omen 2 has been kind of been in my family a little bit.

And First Omen is my number two.

It came out 2024, just kind of in the Omen series.

I like it more than the Omen and Omen 2, but that's the main reason why it's here.

But First Omen came out.

just like your classic horror movie, but a little more modern here.

I saw this movie previously.

You're thinking of The Omen 2.

Oh, he recommended the second one.

Or whatever it's called.

Chicago got some classics on the list, if we really, really getting into it.

The Relic from the late 90s, go even further back with Damien, The Omen 2, obviously Candyland, Child's Play, like Chicago got some.

I do a annual horror watch of Candyman.

It is my favorite.

I don't know.

Or The Omen, maybe the Omen II.

Remember he had to kill his cousin or something?

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The school teacher becomes a target of a satanic cult's reproductive conspiracy.

The Omen 4, The Awakening, which is a straight-to-video story, The Omen.

I have it in the Omen box set that I have on Blu-ray, but I have never watched it.

Because to me, there is only Omen, Damian the Omen 2, and The Final Conflict.

Although I hear the first Omen is good, I have it recorded on my DVR.

I just haven't watched it yet.

I hear it's pretty good.

In the Mouth of Madness, Event Horizon, motherfuckers.

But today we are talking about The Final Conflict, which, uh, the title was later changed to The Omen III: The Final Conflict.

It wasn't originally The Omen III?

No. [laughs] It was, it was released to theaters as The Final Conflict, at least according to Wikipedia.

Maybe 'cause they didn't wanna, like, deter people who were like, "Oh, I haven't seen Omen II" or-

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The Omen III: The Final Conflict, Damien is a 31, I think-

He's a major Hollywood composer.

Obviously, leading up to Alien, he had already done the music for Planet of the Apes; The Omen, which he won an Academy Award for; he also did Damien: Omen II; and Magic, which I think is that Anthony Hopkins with the doll one, which we haven't seen yet.

But after Alien, this is just some of the horror and horror adjacent movie he's, he's done since that's what we're talking about.

He did Omen III.

Writer Stanley Mann.

He also wrote Rapture, Breaking Point, Circle of Iron, Damien, Omen 2, Eye of the Needle, Conan the Destroyer, and Hannah's War, among others.

This is based on the novel by Stephen King.

Cinematographer Giuseppe Rossellini.