Damien: Omen II
Whatever happened to Satan’s little pride and joy? Damien: Omen II—which came out in 1978, two years after The Omen—shifts the action ahead seven years, allowing us to check out what a 12-year-old Antichrist might get up to. The “horrible unexplained accidents” that occur in Damien Thorn’s orbit (here, he’s played by the ruddy-cheeked Jonathan Scott-Taylor) are just as gruesomely spectacular as you’d expect (death by frozen lake, death by fright-induced heart attack, death by having one’s eyes pecked out by birds and then being run over by a truck), because Satan is nothing if not creative.
