Damien: Omen II
The 1976 original Omen is a classic, but don’t turn your back on its unsettling 1978 sequel, in which the Antichrist (Jonathan Scott-Taylor) is now a tween who’s assimilated convincingly into upper-crust life, despite the tragedies constantly unfolding in his orbit. Case in point: an extremely distressing outdoor ice-hockey scene in which a Thorn Industries employee who’s spoken out against the company’s grand (secretly Satanic) plan falls through thin ice… and then is whisked away by the current, drifting just below the surface and frantically hammering on now-very-thick ice from below as his equally frantic would-be rescuers try (and fail) to break through and save him.
