I thought that Sam Neil did really well in this movie and the off-screen murders of all the newborn babies was actually quite haunting. Unfortunately, The Omen 3 has one of the most anti-climactic villain deaths I have ever seen in a film, horror or otherwise. When Damien died at the end, all I could think was "...that's it?"
It also made no sense because we have been told in the previous films that all the daggers are required to kill the antichrist, and it must be done on sacred ground, and he only gets stabbed with one!
That movie holds up well to this day. The kills were done creatively. Weapons: Dogs, Horse, Iron, train car, sand, ice. Variety. 10/10. Sam Neil stylized Damian's evil that is literally still being copied to this day by other villains. The tilting of the head. The arrogance. Homelander comes to mind. The whole series demands a great remake.
@@justicewatch4602 idk about the head tilt. Michael Myers was doing that in 78, inspired by the curious look of dogs. Unless you're talking of it being used in a different way.
@@JBPlaysGames1 No, not the same to me. It was one of the things that stuck out to me. It was not curiosity, it was stylized arrogance and confidence. It was copied by fans who wish they had those super villain powers. He played a super villain like no other for its time.
I thought the film was a masterpiece, the acting is brilliant, the look of the film is stunning and the ending was perfect,. The film is like a work of art, there's no snowflake sht going on, it's a brilliant scripture well acted out. The 2nd one the same, it' seems short but sweet and all of the films link nicely together. There's no CGI in it either and films like those along with the Exorcist I and II far surpass the rubbish that we get today in cinema. They simply don't make films like this anymore.
Lol Sam Neil is awesome in this, this role actually nearly killed his acting career because everyone saw him as evil but Spielberg saved him in Jurassic Park
@@fkingshame7537 ….sir that is an Australian movie that no one has ever heard of that didn’t even earn $10 million in the box office lol it did nothing for no one, meanwhile Jurassic Park is like the most famous movie ever made 🤣
If The Omen series didn't have Damien grow up it would be stuck in Terminator Syndrome where it would never get to the end and keep recycling moments to become just a Best Of... like Dark Fate. Also the problem they had was children grow up. You can't bring back the same actor to ever continue the role in a sequel. The baby slaughter was the best part. It did what it was suppose to do make you upset and disturbed.
I´m with you. Not only was it brilliant to focus on a different stage on a Damien´s life but if he´d stayed a kid they couldn´t have made more movies. In fact, 4 is a repeat of the first.
I like how Cody tells his fans to respond and give their thoughts but he sometimes leaves pissy comments on the ones who disagree with him lol He’s way too soft for TH-cam.
Totally disagree. The movie is awesome. And it is awesome because it tells a complete story going back to the first. The only things wrong with it that I agree are: the fact that they managed to kill Damien with just one dagger (when in the original it´s established all of them are needed) and how he dies. The movie/series wasn´t about a child. The first one was. If anything, that´s one of the many incredible things about this trilogy. With each movie they focused on a different stage in Damien´s life. The political stuff is needed. Like in the second. Yes, Damien is the Anti-Christ but that doesn´t mean he has magic and can make the world his own. Politics was the way to do it. Sam Neill was incredible. And that monologue he gave towards a backwards Jesus´ statue is beyond creepy. The babies´ murderers are rough. Of course they are. And they are meant to be a parallel of how King Herod ordered to have all the new born baby boys to be killed for fear of Jesus. PS One thing that most peple miss is the sex scene. Beyond the fact that Damien was rough during it towards the reporter the reason she was in so much pain is because he had anal sex with her. ...and that´s important to know in the future. PS2 I can´t deal with rapes in movies. However, most movies show the rape scenes while here the babies´ killings are off screen. So I don´t find it to be unwatchable.
These are all excellent points. This reviewer is nowhere near as educated as you are. You brought up the King Herod parallel. Something tells me the only "King" this reviewer has ever heard about is King Kong.
Great points. But, I just thought with the sex scene was that Damien was just screwing the reporter hard from behind, which even if it weren't anal, can be too rough on some women who don't like that position. Sam Neil acted the role well, and it's important to note that he's still very well known for this part even now. Still, the long monologues were kinda dull in my opinion. I don't fault Sam for that, but the script writer.
@@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289 The anal sex was something that was established later in the books. The did novelazations of the trilogy. Then they made 2 more. In the fourth they established that. Also, why she woke up with bruises and scratches...and yes, painful it´s nowhere near as forced anal sex. And when they showed them at the moment you could see in her face how painful it was. Granted, the movie itself didn´t show it but when you take put in contrast that scene with what was established in the book later on made perfect sense.
Also, I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
Personally what I enjoyed about this trilogy is that out of all horror series’, it does a better job at portraying time pass. We see the main antagonist grow and get old where most horror antagonists between sequels remain the same age. I thought it was extremely unique seeing him over different phases of his life.
That was the whole point of this trilogy. It was about following the antichrist from childhood to adulthood, and his rise to power. It even states this in the novels.
I actually like this one! It was not great but plenty of cool stuff could be found here! I love the concept of the priests discovering his identity and going after Damien while he is hunting for the reborn Messiah- I think they do a pretty cool job of doing Armageddon in this! I also think Sam Neil does a terrific job as the adult Damien. I do have a feeling playing this role probably cost him the James Bond role. Because right around this time or a little bit afterwards he was up for the role - but Cubby shot him down - and i bet it probably had something to do with him playing a character like this! A shame - I think he would have made a great 007!
I wouldn't say that this affected his chances at being Bond even if The Producers didn't like him in this movie. James Brolin was essentially cast as James Bond and they were all set to go but then Warner Brothers announced they were making Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery. So the studio knew the only way they could compete with that was to bring Roger Moore back again, so they passed up on James Brolin despite wanting him to be Bond. So either way Sam Neil probably wouldn't have gotten the part even if the producers did like him.
Well I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
I’ve a soft spot for this film. I like the monologues. The “disciples of the watch” speech always makes me think of the Testament song, oh and the location at the end, or “final conflict”, is Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, used to visit that place a bunch when I was growing up, so I dig it, mostly for sentimental reasons.
Well I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
If those priests who found the daggers were supposed to protect the world from Damien then no wonder he almost took it over because they were incompetent. The death of the one where Damien hypnotises his horse into throwing him off the bridge made me laugh because of the OTT scream he does while falling.
Sam was amazing in this movie, and whilst I do enjoy it _a lot,_ too much of it makes me really _uncomfortable_ for me to say that I love it! Still, as part of the on-screen trilogy, it's definitely _mostly_ enjoyable! And yes, I consider this a _trilogy_ because *'Omen IV: The Awakening'* is an abomination that should never have got past the pitch meeting! For those wanting more from the franchise, read the _books_ for *Omen IV* & *Omen V* because they ignore the fourth movie!
The problem with omen four was the quality was bad and the music in dark scenes was too light hearted at times. They wasted the opportunity to have that detective go investigate the location of deli as parents and find out about Kate Reynolds and damien. Instead time was wasted in scenes with him searching out the nun.
@@Kirby-gu1lf agreed… They also had a great idea with making the new *”Antichrist”* a little girl, the daughter of *Damien Thorne,* but they shot themselves in the face with that final reveal about the so-called “twin” (carried inside *Delia* then implanted into *Karen,* making *Delia* nothing more than the *Antichrist’s* protector)… What a copout!
I think Final Conflict actually is my favorite in the series. I don't think any of the films are scary but I find the storyline interesting. Maybe it's because I was raised christian so I like the detail they keep with the mythos. I enjoyed Sam Neil too. It is a little cheesy in his portrayal but I like that in a lot of movies. The baby thing is actually a logical element to the storyline, in my opinion. It harkens back to the bible and how kings tried to prevent Jesus being born, plus the passover in Egypt with all the first born being killed. It all comes down to a balance, I think. The ending is underwhelming, but I'm not sure there was any way they could have gotten away with having him win. Maybe a better death could have been managed but I honestly can't think of one. I respect and understand Cody's opinion fully, and I totally understand why someone would find it boring. I don't like politics either, I don't even really understand a lot of politics but somehow find it interesting in movies.
Well, I mean, you definitely couldn't have him win. Would that have been the worst anticlimax of all, after three movies of waiting to see Damien finally pay for everything? It'd be like Paranormal Activity, where "Toby" never receives any sort of comeuppance.
Amazing how viewers see things differently. I remember seeing this as a young kid. in 1982 on VHS rental. I thought it was fantastic. Not just Goldsmith's score, but the cinematography was operatic I love the ambiguous ending. Beautifully filmed in Fountains Abbey.
A good movie. Regarding the baby killings; this was an obvious twist on the Biblical story (Gospel of Matthew) where Herod orders the murder of all male children under two years of age in Bethlehem in the attempt to kill Jesus Christ who saw as a threat. The ending of this film is dramatic with Christ triumphant over the Anti-Christ as prophesized.
My vision of the perfect Final Conflict would keep everything until the massacre of the Innocents in the movie, but has no Christ figure appearing at all. Simply events that alude that he is there. Instead, Damien's demise should parallel both Robert and Richard's demise in the two earlier movies, but in reverse. Both become increasingly distraught and unhinged as they discover the truth of Damien's lineage - and so Damien should become distraught and viciously desperate as he discover that his foretold destruction wasn't such a fantasy after all. Oh, and Richard Donner says "fuck Superman IV, sue me" and jumps on the Omen III project as he wanted to do. That means Sam Neill stays but more B-listers as support characters, rather than the international nobodies we had in The Final Conflict (Lisa Harrow excluded, she was very good in the movie). I can deal with the fact that all the monks except Father DeCarlo were amateurs who had no chance of killing Damien. However, they would be martyrs for the zealots, who appear later in the movie. The first scenes of the movie - and the telescope scene - alude that the forces of good are in fact a loosely organized network. They deliberately calculated that Damien would capture the six daggers to lure him into a false sense of security. The monks had volunteered to sacrifice themselves in full knowledge that they would fail, but they would die as martyrs to place the pawns as part of a bigger plan: What Damien ignores is when triggered by the birth of Christ each dagger under his control weakens his life force even faster - and they tend to want to rejoin that set, one way or another. God is just too smart to let something like one less dagger of Meggido being available stop His masterplan of defeating the Antichrist. Then, the day after all the babies were killed, Damien loses his grasp. This massacre is the final straw in God's eyes: His lieutenants start either to suddenly die of shock or become insane from visions of Hell; his political shady deals with the Aswan Dam are revealed to the American press by whistleblowers, and the President orders his recall to Washington for consultation; Thorn Industries stock plummets, facing bankrupcy, and Buher kills himself under the orders of Damien because his mental abilities decrease as he grows evermore paranoid. As he enters his childhood mansion he is suddenly blindsided by DeCarlo with the seventh dagger, which this time Damien barely escapes - Satan grows powerless to stop him. Damien manages to kill DeCarlo by viciously throwing himself down to the main floor as he stabs DeCarlo in the eye with the dagger, but it slips outside the eye socket as they fall down (scene reminiscent of when toddler Damien bumps his mother down the steps in Omen I). Damien then tries to retrieve the bloodied dagger but it seems to be nowhere to be seen. That calls on when Damien used illusions to lure the three monks to their death earlier in the movie. Damien grows increasingly and blasphemously angry, as he feels some other power obfuscates the dagger. He screams that with the six daggers in his possession his victory is assured anyway. Flashlights arrive in the parkway and, not knowing if it is the police coming to protect him or arrest him, Damien flees without the dagger. Damien goes on the run to prepare Armageddon, seizing Peter both as the willing apostle he has recruited and a hostage to prevent his mother from revealing the whole truth. The zealots tell Kate to stay in London under their protection but she refuses, she wants to retrieve her son. It culminates toward a final stand on his shrine island, with a remnant of his disciples of the watch assembled to fight with Lance Henriksen making a cameo as now General Neff, the US military attaché for NATO in London. He promises that secret British armed forces, who are in fact disciples, are on their way. Damien gives one last speech that Satan demands that they destroy his enemies without mercy and pity, so to gorge him with their flesh and blood in a mockery of the Eucharisty to fuel his powers again, now confident that with Neff by his side he cannot lose to a ragtag gang of unarmed priests. As he gloatedly gives the order to attack and turn to call on Satan to smite the enemies of His Kingdom the screams of the charge change to loud shrieks of terror (insert Raiders of the Lost Ark-horror from selected people inside the crowd). As he turns to look there's a sudden windy silence: his legions of followers are gone with only their bloodied clothes remaining, all raptured to Hell. Peter remains, though, because he wasn't really one of his apostles. In a twist of Ann Thorn's role in the second movie, Peter was in the good camp all along and had faked being under Damien's thrall. Damien looks at him in utter shock, paralyzed just as the boy smiles and whispers, "I've always belonged to him, Damien. You have failed." Peter runs to his mother, carrying the six daggers that he had hidden on him. With only the strength of a mere human left, abandoned by his father to which he anguishly calls to, he is cornered then brutally stabbed with the daggers by the zealots in front of him, screaming from the pain of his spiritual death under the haunting, ghostly voices of everyone killed or murdered for him during the course of the three movies. As he screams, Damien brazenly taunts that the pain is exquisite for they have failed, he will come back even if they kill him with their weak six daggers! Then, the ghostly voices fall suddenly silent as Kate approaches and gives him a final blow as the coup de grâce - with the last dagger she had in fact retrieved near DeCarlo's body after Damien had fled. Last shot as an echo of the first movie, is the empty coffin supposed to carry the body of Damien Thorn, charged into an American airplane with the American flag and full honours, with Kate and Peter watching holding hands. Officially, the US Ambassador and last heir to the now-bankrupted Thorn fortune had committed suicide and was rapatriated to be buried with the Thorn family, with a false autopsy produced to hide that he had the blood of a jackal. Only Kate and Peter know the whole truth, and they receive an offer to relocate to Italy - which she refuses because they feel safe now that it's all over. Then, Jerry Goldsmith's glorious theme plays like in the movie, with the biblical citation. The End.
A story about a creepy kid? A slasher/horror movie? Did we watch the same 3 movies? I watched 3 movies about the birth, realization, rise and downfall of the Antichrist! 3 movies about the fight of good vs evil! This are not your typical devil/gore/kills movies! This movies are about the Antichrist and all the things that happen from his birth to his downfall! Those minutes that you talk about (the kids) It shows you how far gone his followers are! The depth of the power he has over them! Temptation! Deception! Ego! Narcissism! De-humanization! Lies! Religion! Beliefs! Faith! Watch them again. Not as horror/slasher movies, but as movies about religion and the antichrist, don't put too much weight on the how and who gets killed, but on the why they get killed! If you don't enjoy them, it's fine! I actually watch them from time to time and really enjoy them! Nuff Said!
💯 Agree. This is a Christian movie and since Hollywood is marxist to its core these stories are supressed. Christianity is the largest most prosperous religion the world has seen. It birthed the idea of the individual and brought forward Enlightenment. Nuff said, this is a great triology and a innovative idea on how the rise of the Devils son might come about. Also its creepy😱 We need more movies from the great stories of The Bible.
6:55 They also forgot what the first 2 films established. That Damien has to be stabbed with all 7 Daggers of Meggido. The first to kill him and the other 6 to destroy his soul. In this the reporter just stabs him with one and he dies with no hint of his spirit still roaming around.
Take this with a grain of salt, for it's been a while, but I believe they do address this issue in the follow up novel as the reason his spirit migrated into the son he bore with the reporter.
Only thing I remember about it is the ending, and the fact that it was my introduction to Sam Neill, probably a year or two before Jurassic Park came out. Agree 100% on the baby factor. Thank you for saving me a rewatch.
I promise I’m not trying not to come across as an asshole or anything. I can defend the children massacre to an extent being that it’s in reference to the biblical story of King Herod killing all the newborn babies in the region where Christ was born. That is according to the legend.
@@CodyLeachYT Fair enough. Like I said I wasn’t trying to be a dick or anything. I was just pointing out that even though the omen 3 is idiotic as fuck, that’s the one theme that at least felt had some reason thematically to be in there. Granted this is the same movie where a pack of beagles lick someone to death lol. Love what you do Cody 🤘
I think the MAIN ISSUE with this movie is that the majority of the movie is told from Damien’s perspective. You lose the aura of mystery and terror when you see everything that Damien is up to behind the scenes. They should’ve had the movie balance more on the priest with the daggers. Show them struggle to even get close to Damien, their plans are foiled at every turn, Damien always a step ahead. That would have been a better movie in my opinion. I do think that Sam Neil did a good job as adult Damien, I just think the movie doesn’t work as well when you watch it from Damien’s perspective
I don't want to dislike this movie but the truth is, it's mostly disappointing. On my first viewing, in the 80s, when they showed 1, 2 and 3 on TV in successive weeks, I pretty much hated it. Since then, I've watched it perhaps 10 or so times and have grown to enjoy the first two thirds or so. The ninja monks are interesting and some scenes are quite chilling. This was the first movie I ever saw Sam Neill in and, for me, it's always been his most memorable - he was quite convincing and somehow creepy; a decent piece of casting because he came across as evil yet with the sauve nature of Dracula etc. I'm surprised you hated his performance. The last third of the movie is just abysmal. The ending is dreadful; no arguments there. Peter and Kate are the big mistake in this movie and they drag the whole thing down with their irrelevance to the story as a whole.
@@CodyLeachYT I love all your reviews, they are awesome. T:DF and Omen 3 are the only two I really disagree with (and yes, one good, one bad!). But there has to be some disagreements occasionally, that's what makes movies, and your channel, so damn great!
I love the F*ck this Movie rating. It reminds me of the movie Hollywood Shuffle, they were doing a parody of Siskel and Ebert and the movie they hated the most, both of them gave it the finger.
Sam Neil was fantastic, in my opinion. But I feel like the movie could have been… I don’t know, a bit *bigger?* It’s Armageddon. Political upheaval, war, genocides, chaos, disasters, demons and the evil of Hell loose on the world. I feel like The Final Conflict missed a chance to capitalize on that. Maybe feature the Messiah as an actual character opposite Damian. Maybe some poor, outsider type who nevertheless gathers a following against the growing tyrant that is his foe.
No sorry cody the point of the omen series is NOT JUST about an evil child...it's also about stopping the fall of man.and all the destruction the anti christ would bring
I enjoyed adult Damien and Sam was great especially when he gave the speech in his chapel talking to satan. It could have been cheesy but it worked. They made that little room just weird enough to be creepy but not too much to be over the top. His voice was just rught.
I disagree with almost every aspect of this review. This is a mean, cold movie-as it's supposed to be. There had to be Damien as an adult. He's completely evil and powerful. The aspect of the children was necessary. It's a horror movie and supposed to make you uncomfortable. That's what a good horror movie does. Just shows you that he is totally evil. Brutal kills, the soliloquy at the desecrated statue of Christ was almost a theatre monologue. This is definitely my favourite performance from Sam Neill. You want evil, he delivered it.
That part about having a subjective element that affects you personally, I have that same problem with the first Collector movie. While I can still watch it as a gem of the horror genre, I have to walk away when it gets to the acid room. I am a cat lover so cats being killed in gruesome ways like that trigger me badly.
Any cruel animal death in movies or sad animal deaths in movies really gets me as well. Like i cant watch i am legend because of that scene with the dog.
Just watched it and thought Sam Neil was great. Keeping Damien as kid would have been a huge mistake. There is no point in telling the same story over in the same series.
Omen 3 is a great film and Sam Neill is a perfect cast as Damien the devils son. Also its not just a horror movie, its a Christian movie. This triology is still in 2024 really realistic as depicting the rise of the Prince of Darkness. It stands for itselfe as a Christian movie and has a realistic idea on how this could come about.
the whole new christ should of happened when damien was also being born. one child the spawn of satan and the other of god or jesus which ever. we see damien growing into his role yet in the third movie we learn of the child and maybe have it be suspenseful on who the savior is. then at the end damien and the savior meet for a more satisfying ending. just an idea.
I thought this one was okay but nothing great. The annoying thing for me is the timeline. The three movies are meant to take place over what? 25 - 30 years maybe? Yet they all look like they are set in the year they were made.
To all the people pointing out that the woman only used one dagger at the end ( and in fact the priests would've only used one or two daggers had any succeeded) to spite the first film stating all 7 were needled to destroy damien... in film universe you must remember outside of Robert thorn, no one else was given the information on how to destroy damien by boganhagen... except perhaps in the letters to Robert thorn that would have been destroyed in the Chicago museum fire.... This was done purposefully as the original plans were to have 7 films....2 more scripts were actually completed before the idea was scrapped and it was decided to stop here... until fox tv wanted a movie of the week. Lol ( whixh also had an extremely limited theatrical run.) There were accordingly 2 more novels that were written from these scripts: Omen iv Armageddon 2000 Omen v the abomination * want to know how the anti christ comes back? Hint : remember the anal rape scene between Kate and damien in the final conflict? There's your clue boys and girls. Lol
I saw this a while back and remember very little of it, which generally means it was pretty dull. Don't even recall the baby massacre, so it clearly didn't bug me. For me, it's dogs and cats. You hurt a pet in a film, you ruin any fun I may have had with it. That stuff's just way too relatable.
The Omen is a classic, Omen 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine, omen 3 is bland, omen 4 shouldn't even exist, and then there's the remake. The Omen go out and buy it Omen 2 go out and buy it Omen 3 skip it Omen 4 fuck this movie Omen 2006 fuck this movie beyond repair
I also hate it when they put innocent children in harm. At times it works for the story like Pet Semetery but alot of the times it just feels it's used for shock value and it feels cheap. It's also just generally unpleasant to witness
Uh, Herod the Great did exactly the same when Christ's birth was foretold. Damien does the exact same thing, but with willing cultists from all background in society. This is the one event in the whole trilogy that truly cements that Damien is an evil-incarnate, omnipotent being with no redeeming value whatsoever.
All the build up leads to a one stab in the back for Damien, what a piss poor climax to the franchise, his death scene shoukd have been impactful not a damp squid. Brilliant reviee Cody, you summed the movie up perfectly.
I liked this just fine, although I’ll agree it’s a step down from the original and the sequel. I disagree with the fact that Damien as an adult takes away from the movie. The idea was to stop him from understanding who he is and rising to power (like the Terminator). But he’s learned who he is and has risen to power.
Like was stated it made sense for him to anihalate the Christ child even going to extremes to kill all potential babies born on the same day. This was all part of the plot.The way they filmed it was actually pretty clean no gore was shown
Yeah Cody, i'm with you on the baby death thing, as much of a horror nerd I am, even I have my limits, I hate it when innocent animals like dogs, etc. or babies get killed or when a film offers nothing but gore and just holds onto excessive painful violence and tries being edgy as possible.
Person 1: "Now that I have a time machine I'll go back in time and kill baby Hitler." Person 2: "A baby, really? Why not an adult Hitler?" Person 1: "Where's the fun in that?"
For me the first one ends it all. Omen 2 was just a slasher that wasn't as great. Omen 3, I didn't care about the baby storyline. In fact, I like when it's actually open season on characters even kids. I walked in with high expectations for how the conflict ends to be utterly galled at the "that's it" part of it
For me the best thing was Goldsmith's score, as you said. The worst was that the Second Coming was a complete dramatic and theological Big Flop. The "almighty" Christ is hiding behind the skirts (Daggers of Meggido) of comic-opera monks and only "triumphs" when the lady stabs Damien with just a single dagger. Then, after Jesus returns ... "in glory"?? ... the film can't even tell us if the lady's son is brought back to life at the end. The distance shot of lady and Fr. DeCarlo exiting the ruined church seems only to show the two adults. So where's the dead kid? Back inside the ruins in front of the altar? Jesus is back ... and so what, seems to be the "message" of this wacko film.
Best part of the movie was the wordless opening, IMO, where we saw the journey of the Daggers of Meggido from the excavation of the museum that Damien torched at the end of the second, to the auction and then the thrift store and finally to the hand of the monks. The movie had its flaws but that opening was terrific. It seemed to promise a far more epic finale than what we ultimately got. We never really spent enough time with the monks and the first time one of them got offed in the movie studio, it came off more like a wacky accident than something caused by demonic forces.
now theres a horror icon ive never drawn or painted before and definitely have no merch of, Rachels sister from Pet Sematery Scared the shit out of me when i was younger lol. fuck zelda hahha
This movie came out during the height of end of times and rapture, they took this from the hal Lindsey play book. How could there be a climax against an all powerful god? I never understood it from a theology perspective
Not many agree with you but I do! I rewatched this recently on HBO Max, and it was awful!! Very boring abs an anti-climactic ending. I loved Omen II though. He accepted things a little too quickly but it was an enjoyable watch!
There are 2 great things about this movie. The performance of Sam Neill.and the musical score of Jerry Goldsmith, which I think is simultaneously the most intense and beautiful of all 3 movies. Not the best of the Omen movies but in my opinion, better than Omen 4, the remake, and even the second one which was mostly just a series of death scenes.
3 was a step down from 1&2. It wasn’t bad but felt a bit lacklustre to me,and the ending was weak and how come the Christ figure appeared adult at the end when it was supposed to be a new born child? Another gripe is the inconsistency regarding the daggers.It was explained in the first film that all seven daggers were necessary to rid the world of Damien,the first killing his physical form and the remaining six forming a cross.Yet just one dagger was used at the end and hey presto the fuckers a gonner! I like Sam Neil as an actor but I don’t think he brought enough menace to the role here,maybe not his fault but the direction?
I've always said this movie should be called The Anti-Climax. Other than Sam Neill, who I did think was good, this movie really sucks. They really should have had the resurrected Jesus Christ be the one to strike Damien down, don't you think?
It's got loads of weird shit in it like Delia being pregnant with her twin brother then the embryo being put in her adopted mother, the film never making it clear whether the baby brother's a new Antichrist or a reincarnated Damien, Delia's adopted mother hiring a fat PI to find out who she is but the guy gets killed shortly after having a random vision of carol singers turning into Satanists.
@@Xehanort10 oh it’s horrid. I did a video on why it’s so bad. Here’s a fact….there’s another Omen 4 in novel form that is way better in content and continuity from the first 3.
That casting of Sam Neil was a genius idea. Sams an distinctive actor. However the Omen the Final Conflict was alittle comical and rushed compared to the Omen and Damien the Omen 2.
So you're biggest pet peeve in this movie - is that Damien literally does the same thing as King Herod the Great when he found out about the Jesus's birth in the Bible? Really? Zeffirelli depicted the same in Jesus the Nazareth, would you argue it's a 0-star movie schlock? What Damien does an exact mirror of events in the Gospels, except that he uses his cult in the modern era, rather than paid soldiers in Antiquity.
I'm curious about your opinion of the short lived Fox Omen series, maybe I have shit taste but I enjoyed that show and has the best Bear McCreary song openings of all time
Sam Neil did terrific Job Portraying Damien
I thought that Sam Neil did really well in this movie and the off-screen murders of all the newborn babies was actually quite haunting. Unfortunately, The Omen 3 has one of the most anti-climactic villain deaths I have ever seen in a film, horror or otherwise. When Damien died at the end, all I could think was "...that's it?"
It also made no sense because we have been told in the previous films that all the daggers are required to kill the antichrist, and it must be done on sacred ground, and he only gets stabbed with one!
That movie holds up well to this day. The kills were done creatively. Weapons: Dogs, Horse, Iron, train car, sand, ice. Variety. 10/10. Sam Neil stylized Damian's evil that is literally still being copied to this day by other villains. The tilting of the head. The arrogance. Homelander comes to mind. The whole series demands a great remake.
@@justicewatch4602 idk about the head tilt. Michael Myers was doing that in 78, inspired by the curious look of dogs. Unless you're talking of it being used in a different way.
@@JBPlaysGames1 No, not the same to me. It was one of the things that stuck out to me. It was not curiosity, it was stylized arrogance and confidence. It was copied by fans who wish they had those super villain powers. He played a super villain like no other for its time.
I thought the film was a masterpiece, the acting is brilliant, the look of the film is stunning and the ending was perfect,. The film is like a work of art, there's no snowflake sht going on, it's a brilliant scripture well acted out. The 2nd one the same, it' seems short but sweet and all of the films link nicely together. There's no CGI in it either and films like those along with the Exorcist I and II far surpass the rubbish that we get today in cinema. They simply don't make films like this anymore.
I enjoy the omen 3 mostly just because I'm a big Sam Neil fan. It's far from perfect but still enjoyable to me.
The evil boy scouts were hilarious.
Restoration (1995) one of his best supporting roles imo
In The Mouth Of Madness one of Neil's best performances
@@Timelord007 yeah he was great in that.
Totally agree
Lol Sam Neil is awesome in this, this role actually nearly killed his acting career because everyone saw him as evil but Spielberg saved him in Jurassic Park
I thought his acting in this movie was fine although he’s probably embarrassed to admit it 😄
The movie 'Dead Calm' saved him.
@@fkingshame7537 ….sir that is an Australian movie that no one has ever heard of that didn’t even earn $10 million in the box office lol it did nothing for no one, meanwhile Jurassic Park is like the most famous movie ever made 🤣
@@uhuhuh1966 dead calm is a very well known movie and you know it , you are a troll , fuck the fuck off you absolute cunt
@@valley_robot yes just as well known as Jurassic Park, totally 👌 let me guess, you’re Australian
If The Omen series didn't have Damien grow up it would be stuck in Terminator Syndrome where it would never get to the end and keep recycling moments to become just a Best Of... like Dark Fate.
Also the problem they had was children grow up. You can't bring back the same actor to ever continue the role in a sequel.
The baby slaughter was the best part. It did what it was suppose to do make you upset and disturbed.
Cool...
I´m with you. Not only was it brilliant to focus on a different stage on a Damien´s life but if he´d stayed a kid they couldn´t have made more movies. In fact, 4 is a repeat of the first.
“The baby slaughter was the best part” some things are better left unsaid, bud. That’s just an odd statement to make even in context.
4 sucked. The rest was fine.
I like how Cody tells his fans to respond and give their thoughts but he sometimes leaves pissy comments on the ones who disagree with him lol He’s way too soft for TH-cam.
Totally disagree. The movie is awesome. And it is awesome because it tells a complete story going back to the first.
The only things wrong with it that I agree are: the fact that they managed to kill Damien with just one dagger (when in the original it´s established all of them are needed) and how he dies.
The movie/series wasn´t about a child. The first one was. If anything, that´s one of the many incredible things about this trilogy. With each movie they focused on a different stage in Damien´s life.
The political stuff is needed. Like in the second. Yes, Damien is the Anti-Christ but that doesn´t mean he has magic and can make the world his own. Politics was the way to do it.
Sam Neill was incredible. And that monologue he gave towards a backwards Jesus´ statue is beyond creepy.
The babies´ murderers are rough. Of course they are. And they are meant to be a parallel of how King Herod ordered to have all the new born baby boys to be killed for fear of Jesus.
PS
One thing that most peple miss is the sex scene. Beyond the fact that Damien was rough during it towards the reporter the reason she was in so much pain is because he had anal sex with her.
...and that´s important to know in the future.
PS2
I can´t deal with rapes in movies. However, most movies show the rape scenes while here the babies´ killings are off screen. So I don´t find it to be unwatchable.
Well said !!
💯.
These are all excellent points. This reviewer is nowhere near as educated as you are. You brought up the King Herod parallel. Something tells me the only "King" this reviewer has ever heard about is King Kong.
Great points. But, I just thought with the sex scene was that Damien was just screwing the reporter hard from behind, which even if it weren't anal, can be too rough on some women who don't like that position. Sam Neil acted the role well, and it's important to note that he's still very well known for this part even now. Still, the long monologues were kinda dull in my opinion. I don't fault Sam for that, but the script writer.
@@rhaenyralikesyoutube6289 The anal sex was something that was established later in the books. The did novelazations of the trilogy. Then they made 2 more. In the fourth they established that.
Also, why she woke up with bruises and scratches...and yes, painful it´s nowhere near as forced anal sex. And when they showed them at the moment you could see in her face how painful it was.
Granted, the movie itself didn´t show it but when you take put in contrast that scene with what was established in the book later on made perfect sense.
Damien's blasphemous diatribe is awesome. But to each's own I guess.
Agreed.
Second it. Its got some drawn out time length but i loved it and the speech is awesome
It's an amazing speech and scene!
Agreed.
Also, I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
Personally what I enjoyed about this trilogy is that out of all horror series’, it does a better job at portraying time pass. We see the main antagonist grow and get old where most horror antagonists between sequels remain the same age.
I thought it was extremely unique seeing him over different phases of his life.
I agree.
That was the whole point of this trilogy. It was about following the antichrist from childhood to adulthood, and his rise to power. It even states this in the novels.
I actually like this one!
It was not great but plenty of cool stuff could be found here!
I love the concept of the priests discovering his identity and going after Damien while he is hunting for the reborn Messiah- I think they do a pretty cool job of doing Armageddon in this!
I also think Sam Neil does a terrific job as the adult Damien.
I do have a feeling playing this role probably cost him the James Bond role.
Because right around this time or a little bit afterwards he was up for the role -
but Cubby shot him down - and i bet it probably had something to do with him playing a character like this!
A shame - I think he would have made a great 007!
I wouldn't say that this affected his chances at being Bond even if The Producers didn't like him in this movie. James Brolin was essentially cast as James Bond and they were all set to go but then Warner Brothers announced they were making Never Say Never Again with Sean Connery. So the studio knew the only way they could compete with that was to bring Roger Moore back again, so they passed up on James Brolin despite wanting him to be Bond. So either way Sam Neil probably wouldn't have gotten the part even if the producers did like him.
@@bigkmoviesandgames
Yea you are probably right!
Well I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
Loved Oman 3 it was a Good Conclusion to the Franchise
Sam Neil did as good a job one can expect with what he was given.
I’ve a soft spot for this film. I like the monologues. The “disciples of the watch” speech always makes me think of the Testament song, oh and the location at the end, or “final conflict”, is Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, used to visit that place a bunch when I was growing up, so I dig it, mostly for sentimental reasons.
Well I LIKE that subplot about the baby-killing disciples for which this reviewer expresses such disdain - the priest who strangles an infant during a baptism, the boy scouts come to perform their “good deed for the day”, the nurse who kills the oxygen in the hospital baby ward. I think its creepy, its disturbing, its even sort of darkly humorous, and its something original and unique which distinguishes THIS movie from the others in the series a bit. In fact, I even wish it had been focused upon even more and featured MORE such depictions. I think it would’ve made it an even better movie if it had.
Out of the three, this one was the darkest, coldest and most sinister by far.
If those priests who found the daggers were supposed to protect the world from Damien then no wonder he almost took it over because they were incompetent. The death of the one where Damien hypnotises his horse into throwing him off the bridge made me laugh because of the OTT scream he does while falling.
Ohh La Laaaa
But then again, they're priests, not professional soldiers. They ways they failed are understandable and grounded when you think about it.
Sam was amazing in this movie, and whilst I do enjoy it _a lot,_ too much of it makes me really _uncomfortable_ for me to say that I love it! Still, as part of the on-screen trilogy, it's definitely _mostly_ enjoyable! And yes, I consider this a _trilogy_ because *'Omen IV: The Awakening'* is an abomination that should never have got past the pitch meeting!
For those wanting more from the franchise, read the _books_ for *Omen IV* & *Omen V* because they ignore the fourth movie!
The problem with omen four was the quality was bad and the music in dark scenes was too light hearted at times. They wasted the opportunity to have that detective go investigate the location of deli as parents and find out about Kate Reynolds and damien. Instead time was wasted in scenes with him searching out the nun.
@@Kirby-gu1lf agreed… They also had a great idea with making the new *”Antichrist”* a little girl, the daughter of *Damien Thorne,* but they shot themselves in the face with that final reveal about the so-called “twin” (carried inside *Delia* then implanted into *Karen,* making *Delia* nothing more than the *Antichrist’s* protector)… What a copout!
I think Final Conflict actually is my favorite in the series. I don't think any of the films are scary but I find the storyline interesting. Maybe it's because I was raised christian so I like the detail they keep with the mythos. I enjoyed Sam Neil too. It is a little cheesy in his portrayal but I like that in a lot of movies. The baby thing is actually a logical element to the storyline, in my opinion. It harkens back to the bible and how kings tried to prevent Jesus being born, plus the passover in Egypt with all the first born being killed. It all comes down to a balance, I think. The ending is underwhelming, but I'm not sure there was any way they could have gotten away with having him win. Maybe a better death could have been managed but I honestly can't think of one. I respect and understand Cody's opinion fully, and I totally understand why someone would find it boring. I don't like politics either, I don't even really understand a lot of politics but somehow find it interesting in movies.
Well, I mean, you definitely couldn't have him win. Would that have been the worst anticlimax of all, after three movies of waiting to see Damien finally pay for everything? It'd be like Paranormal Activity, where "Toby" never receives any sort of comeuppance.
Amazing how viewers see things differently. I remember seeing this as a young kid. in 1982 on VHS rental. I thought it was fantastic. Not just Goldsmith's score, but the cinematography was operatic I love the ambiguous ending. Beautifully filmed in Fountains Abbey.
There's actually a scene in some versions that shows a shot of a charred baby, fucked me up
Gross
@@CodyLeachYT the effect was really bad lmao, you only see it for a second but it's very clearly baby doll that's been decorated
A good movie. Regarding the baby killings; this was an obvious twist on the Biblical story (Gospel of Matthew) where Herod orders the murder of all male children under two years of age in Bethlehem in the attempt to kill Jesus Christ who saw as a threat. The ending of this film is dramatic with Christ triumphant over the Anti-Christ as prophesized.
My vision of the perfect Final Conflict would keep everything until the massacre of the Innocents in the movie, but has no Christ figure appearing at all. Simply events that alude that he is there. Instead, Damien's demise should parallel both Robert and Richard's demise in the two earlier movies, but in reverse. Both become increasingly distraught and unhinged as they discover the truth of Damien's lineage - and so Damien should become distraught and viciously desperate as he discover that his foretold destruction wasn't such a fantasy after all. Oh, and Richard Donner says "fuck Superman IV, sue me" and jumps on the Omen III project as he wanted to do. That means Sam Neill stays but more B-listers as support characters, rather than the international nobodies we had in The Final Conflict (Lisa Harrow excluded, she was very good in the movie).
I can deal with the fact that all the monks except Father DeCarlo were amateurs who had no chance of killing Damien. However, they would be martyrs for the zealots, who appear later in the movie. The first scenes of the movie - and the telescope scene - alude that the forces of good are in fact a loosely organized network. They deliberately calculated that Damien would capture the six daggers to lure him into a false sense of security. The monks had volunteered to sacrifice themselves in full knowledge that they would fail, but they would die as martyrs to place the pawns as part of a bigger plan: What Damien ignores is when triggered by the birth of Christ each dagger under his control weakens his life force even faster - and they tend to want to rejoin that set, one way or another. God is just too smart to let something like one less dagger of Meggido being available stop His masterplan of defeating the Antichrist.
Then, the day after all the babies were killed, Damien loses his grasp. This massacre is the final straw in God's eyes: His lieutenants start either to suddenly die of shock or become insane from visions of Hell; his political shady deals with the Aswan Dam are revealed to the American press by whistleblowers, and the President orders his recall to Washington for consultation; Thorn Industries stock plummets, facing bankrupcy, and Buher kills himself under the orders of Damien because his mental abilities decrease as he grows evermore paranoid. As he enters his childhood mansion he is suddenly blindsided by DeCarlo with the seventh dagger, which this time Damien barely escapes - Satan grows powerless to stop him. Damien manages to kill DeCarlo by viciously throwing himself down to the main floor as he stabs DeCarlo in the eye with the dagger, but it slips outside the eye socket as they fall down (scene reminiscent of when toddler Damien bumps his mother down the steps in Omen I). Damien then tries to retrieve the bloodied dagger but it seems to be nowhere to be seen. That calls on when Damien used illusions to lure the three monks to their death earlier in the movie. Damien grows increasingly and blasphemously angry, as he feels some other power obfuscates the dagger. He screams that with the six daggers in his possession his victory is assured anyway. Flashlights arrive in the parkway and, not knowing if it is the police coming to protect him or arrest him, Damien flees without the dagger.
Damien goes on the run to prepare Armageddon, seizing Peter both as the willing apostle he has recruited and a hostage to prevent his mother from revealing the whole truth. The zealots tell Kate to stay in London under their protection but she refuses, she wants to retrieve her son. It culminates toward a final stand on his shrine island, with a remnant of his disciples of the watch assembled to fight with Lance Henriksen making a cameo as now General Neff, the US military attaché for NATO in London. He promises that secret British armed forces, who are in fact disciples, are on their way. Damien gives one last speech that Satan demands that they destroy his enemies without mercy and pity, so to gorge him with their flesh and blood in a mockery of the Eucharisty to fuel his powers again, now confident that with Neff by his side he cannot lose to a ragtag gang of unarmed priests. As he gloatedly gives the order to attack and turn to call on Satan to smite the enemies of His Kingdom the screams of the charge change to loud shrieks of terror (insert Raiders of the Lost Ark-horror from selected people inside the crowd). As he turns to look there's a sudden windy silence: his legions of followers are gone with only their bloodied clothes remaining, all raptured to Hell.
Peter remains, though, because he wasn't really one of his apostles. In a twist of Ann Thorn's role in the second movie, Peter was in the good camp all along and had faked being under Damien's thrall. Damien looks at him in utter shock, paralyzed just as the boy smiles and whispers, "I've always belonged to him, Damien. You have failed." Peter runs to his mother, carrying the six daggers that he had hidden on him. With only the strength of a mere human left, abandoned by his father to which he anguishly calls to, he is cornered then brutally stabbed with the daggers by the zealots in front of him, screaming from the pain of his spiritual death under the haunting, ghostly voices of everyone killed or murdered for him during the course of the three movies. As he screams, Damien brazenly taunts that the pain is exquisite for they have failed, he will come back even if they kill him with their weak six daggers! Then, the ghostly voices fall suddenly silent as Kate approaches and gives him a final blow as the coup de grâce - with the last dagger she had in fact retrieved near DeCarlo's body after Damien had fled.
Last shot as an echo of the first movie, is the empty coffin supposed to carry the body of Damien Thorn, charged into an American airplane with the American flag and full honours, with Kate and Peter watching holding hands. Officially, the US Ambassador and last heir to the now-bankrupted Thorn fortune had committed suicide and was rapatriated to be buried with the Thorn family, with a false autopsy produced to hide that he had the blood of a jackal. Only Kate and Peter know the whole truth, and they receive an offer to relocate to Italy - which she refuses because they feel safe now that it's all over. Then, Jerry Goldsmith's glorious theme plays like in the movie, with the biblical citation.
The End.
Kudos giving a shout out to the score. Jerry Goldsmith was a true genius. One of the only positives to this mess.
I would watch this for the score alone!
A story about a creepy kid? A slasher/horror movie? Did we watch the same 3 movies?
I watched 3 movies about the birth, realization, rise and downfall of the Antichrist!
3 movies about the fight of good vs evil! This are not your typical devil/gore/kills movies! This movies are about the Antichrist and all the things that happen from his birth to his downfall! Those minutes that you talk about (the kids) It shows you how far gone his followers are! The depth of the power he has over them! Temptation! Deception! Ego! Narcissism! De-humanization! Lies! Religion! Beliefs! Faith!
Watch them again. Not as horror/slasher movies, but as movies about religion and the antichrist, don't put too much weight on the how and who gets killed, but on the why they get killed! If you don't enjoy them, it's fine! I actually watch them from time to time and really enjoy them!
Nuff Said!
💯
Agree. This is a Christian movie and since Hollywood is marxist to its core these stories are supressed. Christianity is the largest most prosperous religion the world has seen. It birthed the idea of the individual and brought forward Enlightenment.
Nuff said, this is a great triology and a innovative idea on how the rise of the Devils son might come about. Also its creepy😱
We need more movies from the great stories of The Bible.
6:55 They also forgot what the first 2 films established. That Damien has to be stabbed with all 7 Daggers of Meggido. The first to kill him and the other 6 to destroy his soul. In this the reporter just stabs him with one and he dies with no hint of his spirit still roaming around.
Yeah, but I'd imagine Jesus Himself took care of that.
Take this with a grain of salt, for it's been a while, but I believe they do address this issue in the follow up novel as the reason his spirit migrated into the son he bore with the reporter.
That's why Damien said "you have won nothing" before he died.
dare i say, this ending is anti-christ-matic?
Only thing I remember about it is the ending, and the fact that it was my introduction to Sam Neill, probably a year or two before Jurassic Park came out. Agree 100% on the baby factor. Thank you for saving me a rewatch.
TBF, this IS a horror movie, and has some pure nightmare fuel in the form of infant killings
The ending is shocking
I promise I’m not trying not to come across as an asshole or anything. I can defend the children massacre to an extent being that it’s in reference to the biblical story of King Herod killing all the newborn babies in the region where Christ was born.
That is according to the legend.
I know the act of killing children makes sense for the subject matter...it just kills my enjoyment of a movie.
@@CodyLeachYT Fair enough. Like I said I wasn’t trying to be a dick or anything. I was just pointing out that even though the omen 3 is idiotic as fuck, that’s the one theme that at least felt had some reason thematically to be in there. Granted this is the same movie where a pack of beagles lick someone to death lol.
Love what you do Cody 🤘
"What is left to take away?" Just wait until you get to OMEN 4.
I think the MAIN ISSUE with this movie is that the majority of the movie is told from Damien’s perspective. You lose the aura of mystery and terror when you see everything that Damien is up to behind the scenes. They should’ve had the movie balance more on the priest with the daggers. Show them struggle to even get close to Damien, their plans are foiled at every turn, Damien always a step ahead. That would have been a better movie in my opinion. I do think that Sam Neil did a good job as adult Damien, I just think the movie doesn’t work as well when you watch it from Damien’s perspective
I have to disagree with the baby killing I thought it was one of the better parts of the movie and shows how evil Damien and his followers are
What's to disagree with? I never said it's a bad idea or done poorly I just personally hate seeing it. Like I said...it's a me thing.
Watching from Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England….Love your stuff pal
I'm about 50 miles East of you in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, though i consider myself to be Yorkshire lol.
Does a crumpet taste like a donut?
I don't want to dislike this movie but the truth is, it's mostly disappointing. On my first viewing, in the 80s, when they showed 1, 2 and 3 on TV in successive weeks, I pretty much hated it. Since then, I've watched it perhaps 10 or so times and have grown to enjoy the first two thirds or so. The ninja monks are interesting and some scenes are quite chilling. This was the first movie I ever saw Sam Neill in and, for me, it's always been his most memorable - he was quite convincing and somehow creepy; a decent piece of casting because he came across as evil yet with the sauve nature of Dracula etc. I'm surprised you hated his performance. The last third of the movie is just abysmal. The ending is dreadful; no arguments there. Peter and Kate are the big mistake in this movie and they drag the whole thing down with their irrelevance to the story as a whole.
I'm adding this and Terminator:Dark Fate to the "films I hope Cody revists and changes his mind about" category. Omen 3 rocks.
You know I praised Dark Fate right? Or are you saying you want me to hate it?
@@CodyLeachYT I love all your reviews, they are awesome. T:DF and Omen 3 are the only two I really disagree with (and yes, one good, one bad!). But there has to be some disagreements occasionally, that's what makes movies, and your channel, so damn great!
I actually love final conflict, yes you're right the score is amazing.
I love the F*ck this Movie rating. It reminds me of the movie Hollywood Shuffle, they were doing a parody of Siskel and Ebert and the movie they hated the most, both of them gave it the finger.
I whole heartedly disagree with you on this one, with exception to the ending. However, opinions are just that.
Why do all franchises say final if there always more😂
Final Fantasy is the biggest offender.
U know.... Money.
Sam Neil was fantastic, in my opinion.
But I feel like the movie could have been… I don’t know, a bit *bigger?*
It’s Armageddon.
Political upheaval, war, genocides, chaos, disasters, demons and the evil of Hell loose on the world. I feel like The Final Conflict missed a chance to capitalize on that.
Maybe feature the Messiah as an actual character opposite Damian. Maybe some poor, outsider type who nevertheless gathers a following against the growing tyrant that is his foe.
No sorry cody the point of the omen series is NOT JUST about an evil child...it's also about stopping the fall of man.and all the destruction the anti christ would bring
I enjoyed adult Damien and Sam was great especially when he gave the speech in his chapel talking to satan. It could have been cheesy but it worked. They made that little room just weird enough to be creepy but not too much to be over the top. His voice was just rught.
I disagree with almost every aspect of this review. This is a mean, cold movie-as it's supposed to be. There had to be Damien as an adult. He's completely evil and powerful. The aspect of the children was necessary. It's a horror movie and supposed to make you uncomfortable. That's what a good horror movie does. Just shows you that he is totally evil. Brutal kills, the soliloquy at the desecrated statue of Christ was almost a theatre monologue. This is definitely my favourite performance from Sam Neill. You want evil, he delivered it.
That part about having a subjective element that affects you personally, I have that same problem with the first Collector movie. While I can still watch it as a gem of the horror genre, I have to walk away when it gets to the acid room. I am a cat lover so cats being killed in gruesome ways like that trigger me badly.
Any cruel animal death in movies or sad animal deaths in movies really gets me as well. Like i cant watch i am legend because of that scene with the dog.
@@hornmoviereviews8739 Same. And fuck, that brings back sad memories
Same thing with me when it comes to Willard
Just watched it and thought Sam Neil was great. Keeping Damien as kid would have been a huge mistake. There is no point in telling the same story over in the same series.
Omen 3 is a great film and Sam Neill is a perfect cast as Damien the devils son.
Also its not just a horror movie, its a Christian movie. This triology is still in 2024 really realistic as depicting the rise of the Prince of Darkness.
It stands for itselfe as a Christian movie and has a realistic idea on how this could come about.
the whole new christ should of happened when damien was also being born. one child the spawn of satan and the other of god or jesus which ever. we see damien growing into his role yet in the third movie we learn of the child and maybe have it be suspenseful on who the savior is. then at the end damien and the savior meet for a more satisfying ending. just an idea.
I thought this one was okay but nothing great. The annoying thing for me is the timeline. The three movies are meant to take place over what? 25 - 30 years maybe? Yet they all look like they are set in the year they were made.
To all the people pointing out that the woman only used one dagger at the end ( and in fact the priests would've only used one or two daggers had any succeeded) to spite the first film stating all 7 were needled to destroy damien... in film universe you must remember outside of Robert thorn, no one else was given the information on how to destroy damien by boganhagen... except perhaps in the letters to Robert thorn that would have been destroyed in the Chicago museum fire....
This was done purposefully as the original plans were to have 7 films....2 more scripts were actually completed before the idea was scrapped and it was decided to stop here... until fox tv wanted a movie of the week. Lol ( whixh also had an extremely limited theatrical run.)
There were accordingly 2 more novels that were written from these scripts:
Omen iv Armageddon 2000
Omen v the abomination
* want to know how the anti christ comes back?
Hint : remember the anal rape scene between Kate and damien in the final conflict? There's your clue boys and girls. Lol
I saw this a while back and remember very little of it, which generally means it was pretty dull. Don't even recall the baby massacre, so it clearly didn't bug me. For me, it's dogs and cats. You hurt a pet in a film, you ruin any fun I may have had with it. That stuff's just way too relatable.
On your list, the original Poltergeist is still in my top 10 favorite movies of all time.
I just can't wait to see whether this movie or Exorcist 2 is last on your list on Halloween. And I love the shirt Cody.
The Omen is a classic, Omen 2 is a guilty pleasure of mine, omen 3 is bland, omen 4 shouldn't even exist, and then there's the remake.
The Omen go out and buy it
Omen 2 go out and buy it
Omen 3 skip it
Omen 4 fuck this movie
Omen 2006 fuck this movie beyond repair
Young Sam Neil is kind of iffy. He gives the same performance in Possession
This one took me forever to watch, I kept having to restart it. Just doesn't do enough to keep my interest throughout the run time.
I also hate it when they put innocent children in harm. At times it works for the story like Pet Semetery but alot of the times it just feels it's used for shock value and it feels cheap. It's also just generally unpleasant to witness
I actually thought it made sense as unpleasant as it was if you see what he was trying to accomplish (doesn’t mean I condone it, it’s a horror movie)
Uh, Herod the Great did exactly the same when Christ's birth was foretold. Damien does the exact same thing, but with willing cultists from all background in society. This is the one event in the whole trilogy that truly cements that Damien is an evil-incarnate, omnipotent being with no redeeming value whatsoever.
I wanna see u review the Hellraiser Films And The Straight to Video Sequels
So many supernatural movie sequels are rough
Sam Niel's acting as Damien is far better than Brad Dourif's overacting and screaming in The Exorcist III. There, I said it.
I respectfully disagree but admire you for having the guts to say that 😄
That's a bold hot-take.
Are you kidding???
😂😂😂
I love Sam Neill and this is the first movie I saw him in. Sam is handsome, charismatic and creepy. I am intrigued by this movie.
You always have the coolest shirts Cody
All the build up leads to a one stab in the back for Damien, what a piss poor climax to the franchise, his death scene shoukd have been impactful not a damp squid.
Brilliant reviee Cody, you summed the movie up perfectly.
I liked this just fine, although I’ll agree it’s a step down from the original and the sequel. I disagree with the fact that Damien as an adult takes away from the movie. The idea was to stop him from understanding who he is and rising to power (like the Terminator). But he’s learned who he is and has risen to power.
Like was stated it made sense for him to anihalate the Christ child even going to extremes to kill all potential babies born on the same day. This was all part of the plot.The way they filmed it was actually pretty clean no gore was shown
Don't bother with four. If you thought this one sucked...
Please, review The Skeleton Key (2004)
Yeah Cody, i'm with you on the baby death thing, as much of a horror nerd I am, even I have my limits, I hate it when innocent animals like dogs, etc. or babies get killed or when a film offers nothing but gore and just holds onto excessive painful violence and tries being edgy as possible.
lame , Omen 2 was the best
and baby thing is laughable and cheap , everytime they put this on all I can think of is Harvey Korman saying"too jewish" from Blazing Saddles
HAPPY SATURDAY
I don't care about kid or baby death in the film long as it feels earned. I haven't seen this one in forever though.
Person 1: "Now that I have a time machine I'll go back in time and kill baby Hitler."
Person 2: "A baby, really? Why not an adult Hitler?"
Person 1: "Where's the fun in that?"
The third film has problems.
For me the first one ends it all. Omen 2 was just a slasher that wasn't as great. Omen 3, I didn't care about the baby storyline. In fact, I like when it's actually open season on characters even kids. I walked in with high expectations for how the conflict ends to be utterly galled at the "that's it" part of it
another awesome omen movie.i have truly enjoyed them all .ok maybe the fourth was a dissapointment but the others were awesome
For me the best thing was Goldsmith's score, as you said. The worst was that the Second Coming was a complete dramatic and theological Big Flop. The "almighty" Christ is hiding behind the skirts (Daggers of Meggido) of comic-opera monks and only "triumphs" when the lady stabs Damien with just a single dagger. Then, after Jesus returns ... "in glory"?? ... the film can't even tell us if the lady's son is brought back to life at the end. The distance shot of lady and Fr. DeCarlo exiting the ruined church seems only to show the two adults. So where's the dead kid? Back inside the ruins in front of the altar? Jesus is back ... and so what, seems to be the "message" of this wacko film.
i disagree i thought this movie was excellent. and i think he played the part really well.
Fair enough
Best part of the movie was the wordless opening, IMO, where we saw the journey of the Daggers of Meggido from the excavation of the museum that Damien torched at the end of the second, to the auction and then the thrift store and finally to the hand of the monks. The movie had its flaws but that opening was terrific. It seemed to promise a far more epic finale than what we ultimately got. We never really spent enough time with the monks and the first time one of them got offed in the movie studio, it came off more like a wacky accident than something caused by demonic forces.
My biggest memory of this movie was Sam Neil being Damien. He did what he could with a meh script.
Not a fan of this one. I can relate to the thing with the babies... I'm the same way about dogs.
lol damn he said i was angry
My ranking 5. Remake, 4. Oman 4, 3. Oman 2, 2. Oman 3, 1. The Oman
I literally didn't even know a 3rd Omen movie existed. Surprised to see so many people love this movie lol
now theres a horror icon ive never drawn or painted before and definitely have no merch of, Rachels sister from Pet Sematery Scared the shit out of me when i was younger lol. fuck zelda hahha
Imagine Sam Neil quoting Hamlet "To be or not to be? ".
This movie came out during the height of end of times and rapture, they took this from the hal Lindsey play book. How could there be a climax against an all powerful god? I never understood it from a theology perspective
Not many agree with you but I do! I rewatched this recently on HBO Max, and it was awful!! Very boring abs an anti-climactic ending. I loved Omen II though. He accepted things a little too quickly but it was an enjoyable watch!
It was definitely a big step down from 1&2.
4 though is exceptionally bad.
I agree completely I love first 2 this one was a waste
Took me a minute to figure out the shirt! 😂
Pretty badass! 👍
There are 2 great things about this movie. The performance of Sam Neill.and the musical score of Jerry Goldsmith, which I think is simultaneously the most intense and beautiful of all 3 movies. Not the best of the Omen movies but in my opinion, better than Omen 4, the remake, and even the second one which was mostly just a series of death scenes.
Sam Neal from the Jurassic Parks movies was Damien!
3 was a step down from 1&2.
It wasn’t bad but felt a bit lacklustre to me,and the ending was weak and how come the Christ figure appeared adult at the end when it was supposed to be a new born child?
Another gripe is the inconsistency regarding the daggers.It was explained in the first film that all seven daggers were necessary to rid the world of Damien,the first killing his physical form and the remaining six forming a cross.Yet just one dagger was used at the end and hey presto the fuckers a gonner!
I like Sam Neil as an actor but I don’t think he brought enough menace to the role here,maybe not his fault but the direction?
I've always said this movie should be called The Anti-Climax. Other than Sam Neill, who I did think was good, this movie really sucks. They really should have had the resurrected Jesus Christ be the one to strike Damien down, don't you think?
If you didn’t like this movie, rest assured you’re going to hate Omen 4 the Awakening. I for one abhor it.
That one atually decided to, basically, repeat the first. So no moving forward in the story.
@@justicierodelaliga oh no not only was it a repeat, it was a complete shit show. Ugh lol
It's got loads of weird shit in it like Delia being pregnant with her twin brother then the embryo being put in her adopted mother, the film never making it clear whether the baby brother's a new Antichrist or a reincarnated Damien, Delia's adopted mother hiring a fat PI to find out who she is but the guy gets killed shortly after having a random vision of carol singers turning into Satanists.
@@Xehanort10 oh it’s horrid. I did a video on why it’s so bad. Here’s a fact….there’s another Omen 4 in novel form that is way better in content and continuity from the first 3.
I’m the same as you, if young kids get killed in a horror film, it pulls me out of the film. Totally get it.
You mean like JAWS?
I have to say my ranking of the Omen movies, which is not popular opinion, is 2, 4, 1, 3, 5.
Let the bitching begin!
I would have liked to see Damien fight Jesus I don’t know how that would have gone but that would’ve been a fitting end to it
Like Obi-Wan and Anakin?
That casting of Sam Neil was a genius idea. Sams an distinctive actor. However the Omen the Final Conflict was alittle comical and rushed compared to the Omen and Damien the Omen 2.
I was a pre-teen when I saw Omen I & III and I really enjoyed both.
So you're biggest pet peeve in this movie - is that Damien literally does the same thing as King Herod the Great when he found out about the Jesus's birth in the Bible? Really? Zeffirelli depicted the same in Jesus the Nazareth, would you argue it's a 0-star movie schlock? What Damien does an exact mirror of events in the Gospels, except that he uses his cult in the modern era, rather than paid soldiers in Antiquity.
I'm curious about your opinion of the short lived Fox Omen series, maybe I have shit taste but I enjoyed that show and has the best Bear McCreary song openings of all time