The Omen (1976)

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Robert and Katherine Thorn seem to have it all. He is the US Ambassador to Italy and they want for nothing in their lives, except one thing: they do not have children. When Katharine has a stillborn child, Robert is approached by a priest at the hospital who suggest that he take a healthy newborn whose mother has just died in childbirth. Without telling his wife he agrees to to so but after relocating to London, strange events - and the ominous warnings of a priest - lead him to believe that the child he took from that Italian hospital is evil incarnate.

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Satan's son has arrived on Earth and He's not about to let human parents get in the way. When his wife Katherine's (Lee Remick) pregnancy ends in a stillbirth in a Rome hospital, U.S. diplomat Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) substitutes another baby, whose mother died. Little Damien (Harvey Stephens) thrives, but, at his fifth birthday party, his nanny mysteriously dies; Father Brennan (Patrick G. Troughton) also expires after warning Thorn that he has adopted Lucifer's son. While sinister new nanny Mrs. Baylock (Billie Whitelaw) assiduously protects Damien, Thorn's fears escalate when photographer Jennings (David Wa...
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rner) shows him pictures from Damien's party with marks suggesting how the nanny and Brennan would die. Thorn seeks out Bugenhagen (Leo McKern), an exorcist who confirms Damien's identity and tells Thorn that the only solution is to kill his adopted son. As the bodies pile up, Thorn tries to do his duty, but trust the law to get in the way of saving the world from future Armageddon.
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Op 6 juni in Rome haast de Amerikaanse ambassadeur Robert zich naar het ziekenhuis omdat zijn vrouw Katherine moet bevallen. Helaas overlijdt het baby'tje. Maar in overleg met de priester - en zonder dat Katherine het weet - wordt een andere pasgeboren baby die geen ouders meer heeft, omgedoopt tot Roberts en Katherine's zoontje Damien. Tot zijn vijfde gaat alles voorspoedig, op het eerste bezoekje aan de kerk na. Maar dan begint een vreemde serie ongelukken die start met de zelfmoord van de oppas. Robert wordt door een priester en een fotograaf gewaarschuwd dat er iets vreemd aan de hand is.

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The young son of an American diplomat and his wife, living in London, turns out to be marked with the sign of Satan, the infamous "666". It soon becomes apparent that he could be the Anti-Christ incarnate and possesses the evil powers to stop anyone who stands in his way.

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