The Omen (1976) FIRST TIME WATCH | Oh the Horror, the Drama, The EVIL!!
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8:57 he tried to say "his mother was a jackal", which was the animal in the grave
Yeah, there's some kind of Biblical lore about the antichrist being born of a dog (I think, not religious myself). The grave is correct, that's Damien's mother 😬
The book was even better. I think the quote was that the child was "born of a jackal."
@@charmingjinx9379 Yes, the novelization was phenomenal! It filled in so much of the backstory about the satanic conspiracy within the church.
how did a jackal & a human i suppose make a full human baby? (i did not read the book or know anything about the bible so there is no offense to anyone, i am just wondering)
@@suspiciousheroIt's the devil, you think that's hard to accomplish?
The reason you recognize the journalist is because he was in Scream 2 as Sidney’s drama teacher.
yes! thank you i was trying to figure that out as well because he seemed so familiar
The late great David Warner. He starred in Amicus horror films as well as hundred's of other films and tv dramas
What??? How you know that?
@@azazello1784 How do we know what? I'm British and David Warner was quite famous over here
And he was in waxwork and Titanic
Damien's mother is the jackal
Definitely considered a classic for a reason!
BTS trivia regarding the final shot: when Damian turns to the camera, he was meant to just hold a threatening look. The director off camera was telling him as they were filming, "Don't smile. Don't you smile." and the kid broke out into that appallingly sweet (in the context of the scene) grin. And it became... iconic!
Oh, and the music was the only horror score to ever win an Oscar. The same composer (Jerry Goldsmith) also composed the scores for II & III, and the three together comprise a sort of dark symphony. The music and sound design in this year's prequel was exceptional as well (composed by Mark Korven)!
Knew I would find this in the comments…about the grin. 😀👍
We can always count on Sergio to get us through the creepy music with his dance breakdowns. 😂❤
i love every time he does that!
@@suspiciousherosame!!!! It’s the best! 😂
yup always 🤣
when he went "BLAHHT!" in the ending track I almost died hahah he so cute
YAS BREAK IT DOWN GAWD
TWERKIN IT FOR THE DEV AHL
hahahahahahahahahahaha
He is so funny and their dynamic makes me laugh and so glad they have such a fun relationship so cute.!
The jackal is his mum. Also seeing the poor baby in the grave is so sad. You really feel bad for the poor family
The prequel 🫣🫣🫣🫣
I’m confused I thought the jackal was the dad and the mom was some woman?
@@e.c.1975 The first omen kinda retconned it so you’re not wrong the jackal is the dad in the first omen because of the retcon
@@e.c.1975 the "First" Omen deliberately effed it up with a convoluted retcon of the original classic. Damien's mother in the original was a female jackal that Satan impregnated. So Damien as the Antichrist wasn't really human at all, just born to look human.
You saw his mother in the grave. The jackal is the mother.
The boy who played Damien grew up to be a criminal. He was jailed for attacking 2 people.
He beat up a couple of morons and got a suspended sentence
“His mother was a JA…” good god I adore this movie.
...was a jackass?? 😂
Yeah, if you didn't know the storyline. People wouldn't expect a jackal. The Omen prequel this year at least showed what the jackal looked like.
*but it was the devil that impregnated a human mother. So..
@@klass_1221 Satan seems very creative. I dig it.
@@klass_1221 In "The First Omen", she definitely was.
@@klass_1221 People who saw the original in the 70s figured out it was a jackal lol. I knew it was long before that prequel which retconned it all. In the original story Satan impregnated a female jackal, meaning the Antichrist wasn't really human at all, just looked human.
I always thought the priest was saying "his mother was a JACKAL" or something like that, and the skeleton in the grave was that of a jackal. Saw this film in the theater as a kid during its initial run. The governess hanging herself at the birthday party freaked me the f out. I love the spooky cemetery raiding scene, it really establishes the mood for the rest of the film.
I consider this score the scariest of all time for me. Always gives me chills.
Composer Jerry Goldsmith deservedly won the Oscar that year for this score. Such an awesomely sinister theme.
In folklore Rottweilers are considered devil dogs. Which is ridiculous bc they’re so incredibly sweet. I know bc I had one and she was one of the kindest most loyal and loving dogs I’ve ever had. She also saved my son from being kidnapped. I will forever be thankful for her.
I believe the book author chose the Rottweiler because they are notoriously attentive and protective of their families and are good with children. They gained the bad rap from the book as far as I know.
I was raised with Rottweilers since I was born. So my parents dislike the omen movies. In the 80s unfortunately after the omen, there were more movies created with the Devil dog bs idea in mind. They get such a bad rep.
@@charmingjinx9379~ Years ago, my sister had a Rottweiler, he was terrible with my son. I was glad when she moved out, and took that nasty dog with her. Now she has a sweet black lab mix who is truly sweet...
Rottweilers are the best dogs there are. I've had them since I was a kid and you couldn't get a more loyal, affectionate and loving breed. They only got known as Devil dogs because of the Omen films.
Rotties rule!!
Another vote for Rosemary's Baby 1968!!!
make that 2 votes !!
Bit of cast trivia: Damien's first nanny, with the spectacular fate at the birthday party, is played by Holly Palance, actress daughter of Hollywood legend tough guy actor Jack Palance. The character was billed only as "nanny" but notice Lee Remick called her by her real name in the scene
Prepping for The First Omen? It was maybe one of the best prequels I’ve seen, so much better than it had any right to be. So good.
Agreed!
The composer is the late, great Jerry Goldsmith. He's known for most of the Star Trek movies (the iconic Next Gen theme is all him), The Omen series, Gremlins, Poltergeist, Alien, Planet of the Apes, Mulan, and The Mummy - amongst many, many others. He's one of the best movie composers of all time.
Omg I’m a TNG girlie! #80sBaby
Never knew who made that iconic theme song. Thanks for sharing this info! 🥰
Sad fact: Gregory Peck's son died (allegedly by self deletion) the year before the movie was shot.
I can't even imagine what it must have felt like for him trying to kill "his son" in the movie
That’s awful. 😢 Poor guy. That’s a pain you never recover from.
Fun Fact:
The glass pane beheading is what inspired the FINAL DESTINATION franchise! (You can see a nod in FD2 with the teen dying by a glass window)
The director was interested in the obscure yet real ways people have died and did research, wrote a script and got filmmakers together and then it spawned the entire franchise!
This is one of those horror films that was parodied so often in pop culture that it felt like I'd already seen the whole thing before I actually had. Same with "The Ring".
Ms. Blaylock was not Damien’s mother. His mother was the jackal you saw in the grave. His mom was not human. This is one of my go to annual October watches for Halloween season.
You should check out Damien Omen II.
Great reaction! ❤❤
I love that Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett apparently watched this and asked "but what if the people carrying out the baby swap were really really incompetent?"
Also it's weird to think that in the span of a few years, Richard Donner directed two movies about an "unsuspecting human couple accidentally winds up with a superhuman child and they don't quite now how to process the revelations of raising a demigod".
One was this; the other was Superman.
That's how "Good Omens" was born. It's hilarious book, one of my fav, and it turned the premise of the movie upside down.
Other Horror Classics:
- Rosemary's Baby
- Trilogy of Horror
- Dead Alive
- The Fog
- Twilight Zone: The Movie
- Elvira Mistress of the Dark
just to start.
React to the film: DOG SOLDIERS (2002), a very good and underrated British horror, brutal and with charismatic and curious characters, it's worth checking out.
Yes! But put on subtitles, it will help.
I loved the first one, the sequel was also impressively creepy. I’m so glad you loved this one! I remember watching it on TV as a kid after the parents went to bed, and the music alone made me want to hide under the covers.
I love this movie. So creepy. The mother was the jackal in the grave next to the baby in the abandoned cemetery.
You guys should watch Rosemary's Baby if you enjoyed The Omen. Also there are sequels to The Omen.
Good horror/thriller/drama with strong suspense and occasional shocks. True classic.
You have to watch Omen II & Final Conflict.
I think there are four original Omen films and then another two made in the 2000's (I've not watched the latter two)
@@CaroleEvans93436 You're not missing anything by skipping IV and the 2006 remake. I thought II & III carried on and wrapped up the series rather well, and this year's prequel was phenomenal!
I'm on the side that liked Part 2 more than the og Omen. But this is a horror classic. I only liked Final Conflict for Sam Neill as adult Damien. Part 4 and Omen remake wasn't good at all. The Omen prequel this year is pretty good. I liked how they tied it into this first movie.
Sam Neill is great there, in Event Horizon, and for In the Mouth of Madness.
Back in 1976, I don't think that many in America were familiar with the Rottweiler breed. I can remember asking myself, "WTH kind of dog is that?!?"
I hope you will also react to Damian: The Omen 2 as it is a really well made sequel. Anything after that, in my opinion, well, they suck. lol. But The Omen 2 is really well made, acted, and it has everything this first film has, plus more. As always, i love your reactions and you two are both so adorable. So keep entertaining us. xodd
"Anything after that, in my opinion, well, they suck" - The First Omen is incredible.
I think the implication is that the animal in the grave was his mother.
Yup. A jackal.
@@charmingjinx9379😯🫢 How did I never peep that after these years?! Omg, I never even thought of that!
Yeah for seeing this it’s a quick intro into this for me because I saw First Omen without realizing it was a prequel so so much is connecting now
Also, in Roman mythology, a 3 headed Rottweiler gaurds the gates of Hades domain aka the underworld.
If you like this one check out Rosemary Baby (1968) with Mia Farrow, it also a classic one to
Fun fact: a few years ago, here in the UK, one of the major TV channels showed The Omen on Christmas Day :D
Fun fact: that hospital elevator is called a Paternoster lift, also cyclic chain lift. They’re only found in parts of Europe and Asia these days. I think The Hague in Prague has one. The up and down sides are linked as the cars travel on a continuous chain loop with large pulley wheels at the top and bottom, like a vertical conveyor belt. The constant motion, and having to step in and out while the cars are moving, did end a few lives, and cause lots of injuries. Ankle injuries were plentiful, when stepping into a descending car, once the car was too far below the floor. Patience can keep ya safe with getting on or off a car in a paternoster lift, and never ride a car up over the pulley and down the other side. They would jam when people tried it, and they’d get stuck in a difficult to access part of the system.
Nice reaction!
Gregory Peck (the actor who plays de the father) make this movie bc he lost his kid and this movie was like a therapy from him
A lot of the classic horrors are much better than the modern ones because they rely on suspense and story, not gore, violence and cheap jump scares. While there are 1000s of great horror films, I've compiled an essential viewing list of genre-creating/defining, iconic, impactful horror films in pop culture. I'm talking the BIG films that everyone on the street knew about. These films inform every other horror film/trope, and mostly spawned franchises. If you start with these, everything else will fall into place.
1961 Psycho
1968 Rosemary's Baby
1968 Night of the Living Dead
1972 Deliverance
1973 The Exorcist
1974 Texas Chainsaw Massacre
1975 Jaws
1976 The Omen
1978 Halloween
1979 Alien
1980 Friday the 13th
1981 The Evil Dead
1982 Poltergiest
1984 A Nightmare on Elm Street
1996 Scream
1999 The Blair Witch Project
2004 Saw
2007 Paranormal Activity
Plus one of my personal favourites: The Haunting 1963 (was adapted into the netflix series House on Haunted Hill)
The remake with Liv Schriber is actually pretty good. There was a one season TV show about adult damien that was fun too. Thanks for watching
Julia Stiles played that role so well!!
The remake definitely miss cast Julia Styles as the mother me thinks.
I thought that series was really interesting. It ended too quickly,
@@scottiemoseley2116 100% agree. They got good and then canned it. So common.
I saw somewhere that the director told the kid not to smile at the end, but he couldn't help it. 😂
The photographer was Lovejoy in Titanic.
lol as much as I love Lost boys, Hellhounds has been around since the ancient Greece with the Cerberus & old Norse with Garmr
Supernatural has Hell hounds! Crowley is their Master.
The scene where the nanny hangs herself traumatised me when I was a kid ! And the scene with the priest in the churchyard is iconic !
Common misconception is that 666 is referring to Satan, it's not, its a reference to Nero. 666 & 616 are connected to the way Hebrew speaking ppl in Bible times, used numbers to write names. Nero is 666 or 616 depending on the script (iirc).
666 is from the Bible it's "the number of the beast"
@@S1ipperyJim the beast is Nero. Please use Google Scholar and look it up for yourself if you want more info.
The photojournalist is also the henchman for Cal in Titanic. Other votes are for the sequels to this movie, Rosemary's Baby, the original Suspiria, Don't Look Now, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (both versions).
Nice recommendations!
I sooo want reactions to Rosemary’s Baby and the Donald Sutherland version of Body Snatchers
I want to say I'm so happy you got to see this horror classic. I still get terrified of "The Omen" now even though I saw it many times as a kid. THAT kid, Damien, is a killer amazing actor and he's why I don't want to have kids.
Yalls intro is such a bop I can't keep from dancing ❤❤❤ this is such a fantastic film ❤❤❤❤
Sergio ALWAYS breaks it down!
I am just starting to watch this. I couldn’t hit play fast enough when I saw it uploaded. This was the first horror film I ever watched when I was about 12 years old. It came on TV and my mum thought it’d be a nice thing for us to watch together. It was not. I love it now though.
So glad y'all enjoyed this one 👹! Damien: Omen 2 is my favorite of them all because Lance Henricksen from Aliens stars, and the teenage Damien is creepy as fuck! 🖤 Even more so than that weird old looking kid in charge in Children of the Corn, if y'all saw that one. PLEASE, react asap because you know we're all dying to watch the sequel together! 🤗
I laughed way too hard at the "Boys triiiip!" and "BRRRRA!", even tho you were both gagged because this movie was so terrifying, you never fail to make your fans smile~
In the grave was the skeleton of a jackel…that was the mother of Damien. Representing that Damien is not “human,” he is “demon.”
For some reason I always think these older movies won’t scare me but I’m here SHOOK 😂. The music is super super creepy omg
You should watch the extras where they talk about all the deaths that happened around this movie. Not necessarily for the channel, but the actual verifiable deaths that really happened are interesting. The one about the girlfriend of the guy who came up with the beheading shot is particularly creepy.
My favourite line: If it was a love story we'd be talking about the romantic moments that happened on set. It's only because it was a horror movie that everyone's so focussed on all the deaths.
I really also love the remake with Julia Stiles and the dude who played Cotton in Scream. Please also check out 30 days of Night because this is definitely a much more serious rendition of a certain sub genre. If i give more details i will give the whole thing away
The dog attack scene in the graveyard took them ages to film, because the dogs kept humping each other.
You wanna go on Shudder and go to the cursed films docuseries. It's in the first season I believe and it covers a lot of different movies. That would be such a cool thing to react to, even if it is more on the educational side. But I also think it would give you guys. Some great movies to check out that haven't been covered on this channel yet
this movie had been on of my favourites growing up so im so happy to see you guy reacting to it!!
The final destination writers obviously got inspiration from the omen movies. The omen movies started the crazy deaths with weird things happening to take them out and final destination took it and turned it up to max crazy lol I think it's omen 2 that has the crazy elevator scene. That one is pure final destination style lol
I love when you guys react to older movies and introduce me to these classics!!!
I love that you guys loved this! Love seeing legit "old" classics getting talked about on youtube!
I would totally recommend the documentary series Cursed Films - they have an episode on The Omen and all the things that went on. It's a shudder show. I'd watch a reaction to those lol
Damien's mother is the jackal in the grave with the baby, but this is explained away ad retconned in the newest omen that just came out
I hated the prequel for retconning this established part of the lore.
I absolutely love this movie! The story is so well written, the sense of dread and foreboding is masterful. This insidious evil that infests their lives, and how cleverly it is foretold with bible verses etc. it’s brilliantly done. Part two is also fantastic! The recent prequel is also meant to be fantastic.
Yes it was a set up. A Diabolical Conspiracy.
It continues in the sequel
I haven't seen this movie in so long I had forgotten all about it. Great video as always guys!!😊
I love that you kept comparing the story to an RPG, and Bugenhagen is also the name of a character you seek out in Final Fantasy 7 😂
Thought the same thing, too! 😂 hope they play it!
You definitely need to watch #2 & #3. The 2nd Damien is a teen & coming into his power & the 3rd one Damien is grown up & raising Hell. 😈
For the auditions for Damien, the children were instructed to "attack" the director convincingly. Harvey Stephens won the role by kicking him in the balls and clawing his face. So...yeah he's adorable but a little bit terrifying.
Loved this 😍and the way Cody is always catching hidden details☺ with his quickness and the end with Sergio dancing and the sound he made bleh🤣
If anyone has ever seen the show Good Omens or read the book (highly reccomend! You guys have to react to it!) Its all based on this movie apparently
The book is really great - probably more fun to read first, mostly for the tangents
@@betteramulet50yessss exactly
this is my favorite movie of all time, and you two were so entertaining and hilarious. thank you so much for the react to this classic.
Hit the like 2 minutes in for the 20th century fox logo, nice catch!
😂 👍🏻 you guys are the best
His mother was the jackal in the grave.
Was I the only one dancing away to holiday road with you guys 😆 I love your reaction to this underrated movie 🖤
That score won the Oscar that year.
Are you guys carrying on with the franchise ?? Lovinf your reactions to the omen films would love to see more from you guys! Great reaction , also lives your reaction to the first omen 😊
Woo woo let's go 😎 also I would love to recommend a movie called "Rosemary's Baby" I think you will love it 😎🍿🎥
I love Rosemary’s Baby, but the moment I watched ANTM when Tyra Banks said she wanted a Mia Farrow hair cut on one of the contestants, I just always associate that film with it now lol
I'm so glad I found this channel. You guys rock.
I’ve always preferred this over The Exorcist, I know they aren’t really similar but I always see them compared but this movie always stuck with me after seeing it when I was a kid.
The preist was the actor who played the second doctor who
Not Sergio jamming out to the music but go off 😂👏
I watched The Omen to prep myself for your guys reaction and I actually loved it! I kept getting pissed off at Mrs Baylock and Damien creeped me out at the end when he looked at the camera 😂
I did watch the second and third movie just cause and thought they were okay still enjoyed but I loved the first one more 😅
Love this movie and part II is great as well. Gregory Peck(Damian's father) was not only hot as an old man, but back in the day in those black and white movies too. Super reaction guys. New sub!
this might be the most entertaining reaction I’ve ever seen lol, you guys are so funny without disrespecting the movie…the priest hookup bit took me out & I love Sergio dancing to that iconic satanic choir theme ❤
I’m not a fan of religious horror either but some movies do it very well and this is one of them
There's a dance remix to the theme!
I knew you guys would love this. It’s an amazing plot
This was such a fun reaction. Cody's facial reactions get me every time/. And Sergio with his dance moves always put me in a dancing moves.
That decapitation scene messed me up as a kid 😮
You guys should watch the prequel to this movie The First Omen,it was a great movie, I promise you won't be disappointed
If anyone hasn't seen Cody and Sergio's reaction to the Fall of The House of Usher I HIGHLY recommend!! Cody's literary knowledge adds so much that I missed when I watched the show! The horror bandwagon is officially apart of my nightly routine I smoke and watch these two and lemme tell ya 1000/10 would recommend!! 💜
I’m watching this for the first time through your channel. It’s a good movie, I agree. I also didn’t understand the thing with the dogs since in most movies, dogs and other animals fear evil, rather than protect it.
The mother was a jackal
I was so furious at the beginning that all of my sympathy for the dad went out the window- I was roooting for Damien to fuck him up lol.
They say this film as a. Curse on it as people died and things happened while making it
I love that you love this film. It still scares me to death even now. It could be real. It’s a masterpiece IMO 👏👏
The omen is one of my all-time favorite horror movies. Also like back in the day, I wasn’t that into religious horror either but this movie made me appreciate religious horror, a lot more. Because this movie is religious horror done right. I think you guys should do some research on the making of this movie because honestly what the filmmakers had to endure and go through to get this movie made is honestly so much more scarier than the movie itself. Because it is believed that there was a curse during the whole process of making the movie. And they believed that the devil did not want the movie to be made so there was a lot of unexplained deaths accidents gone wrong and also before they began shooting the film, and after Gregory Peck was cast in the role his son unexpectedly committed suicide by taking a revolver and blowing his brains out in 1975. And the special effects guy who created the beheading scene one day after the film was released. He got into a car accident that left him injured, but also killed the passenger, and the passenger died the same way Keith Jennings died in the film, she was beheaded and it all happened Outside of the town of Omenn right near a sign that said Omenn 6.66 kilometers away. That story said shivers down my spy. When I first heard it I mean it’s too good to be true that they’re definitely was a curse and the Devil and his demons were at work.
3:52 i to his wife that way , imposing a motherhood on her that wasn't hers to give ,he played a dirty trick on her from the start that ended up costing her her life . I blame him for being so blind .
ps : great reaction you guys ❤ reactions to this movie are so rare , thank you 🙏
That was such a fun reaction!
TWERKIN IT FOR THE DEV AHL
best way to start off a horror movie Sergio.! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha you guys manage to make me smile no matter what thank you so much for always being so genuine and fun.!
You guys should absolutely watch GOOD OMENS you would love it!
The priest who was impaled is played by Patrick Troughton who was also the 2nd Dr Who.
There is a show called Damien that is focused on the kid as an adult and uses all the movies as flashbacks. It's a one season 2016 show
You children are just Stellar.....reactionary,genuine and a bit campy. So much FUN is had by listening to your little patter and remarks, This film is a real gem...this was 1976...all practical effects....no computer generation magic. The music (all that Gagorian chanting)....the mood...the actors where all top notch. There are 3 movies of the Omen...#2 is the better of the last 2...a bit more gore...but again,practical effects. This was a great overview of this genre..thanks fellas! Continue snatchin' those crumbs...you are both too real....and Bourbon,also!