IT MUST BE AN OMEN

For myself, i am not to fond of the Horror genre. I have never been one to want to intentionally become scared or frightened to build up my adrenaline. With that being said, I did watch The Omen, namely because it was a very old movie. This did, in my opinion, set it apart from some of the other Horror movies that were on the list.

The movie did a good job in representing a real world setting that any person could be a part of, which drew myself and possibly other viewers in. The entire movie is surrounded around Damion, the son of the Prime Minister of the United States who lives in Britian now, while also being the son of the Devil. Many movies will play on this idea that the son of the devil is a child who goes around killing and killing and killing. It was not his doing that the people died, but the work of his guardians, or demons. For being a movie that took place back in the 1960s, there was not the amount of special effects that could have been done to amp up the movie like there are now. What the director did very well in my opinion was set the mood.

What i did like about this horror movie was the simplicity of it. The very first horror movies were not about how gruesome or Devilish the creatures could look, but the "What if". If there is the idea that this could happen and may be happening to one of us, it scares the hell out of you. (Not pun intended)

Most all Horror movies have a general theme to theme that runs through them. Generally they are scary, hence the Horror Theme. But what a director can do that really sets the movie off is uses the sense of the viewer against himself. For the Omen, the music was constantly telling of a bad action that was about to happen that kept you wondering. The score had no sound so that it would not draw away from the attention given to the fear about the occur. Along with this, the pause of action builds suspense for Terror/Thriller movies, along with the cinematography that makes the viewer question hi/her own senses.

What i did enjoy about this movie which is an interesting point that i brought up a week or two back in class, is that Damion, the anti-Christ or antagonist of the movie, actually wins.  Not many movies will end with the bad guy coming out victories because it does not sit well with the audience. I really did respect the director for doing that since Damion did have way more power than anyone in the movie.