An
American ambassador named Robert Thorn
(Liev Schreiber) and his wife Katherine
(Julia Stiles) are raising a son they
accepted at the time of the death of
their first and only child, whom they
named Damien (Seamus Davey Fitzpatrick)
and who the priests are convinced that is
the antichrist, the devil himself's son;
as he was born of a 'jackal' which of
course the parents are not told till too
late.
While on Damien's 5th Birthday and while
they are celebrating and having a big
party for him near a cathedral during
which Damien's nanny sacrificed herself
by hanging herself as she jumped off the
roof of the catherdral.
Katherine, the mother starts to realise
that Damien is behaving very strangely
after he attacks her viciously while they
are driving to Sunday church and then
their new nanny, a Mrs. Baylock (Mia
Farrow), behaves very strangely around
him and them.
Deadly incidents also begin to occur with
priests who were involved with the
initial baby switch. Robert finds out
that Katherine is again pregnant but she
wants an abortion due to the strange
behaviour of 'her son' Damien.
She does not want to raise another child
if he is an example of her parenting
skills. Damien will do anything to
inherit the riches of the ambassador
Robert, which includes the attempt to
kill both Katherine and Robert with the
help of Mrs. Baylock, the devil's apostle
there to serve him.
An excellent
remake of the 1976 classic with the same
writer and director involved in the film.
It at times gets a little slow when the
character Robert travels to Italy to do
some discovering on Damien as it takes a
little too long but the other scenes are
great and it will make you jump at times.
Hopefully the sequels will see the light
of day like in the original.
The acting is
good. Child actor Seamus Davey
Fitzpatrick really brings his
character Damien to life showing no
expressions but a cold look on his face
which makes his role very frightening.
Mia Farrow also does well with her
creepy performance as Damiens caretaker
working under his powers.
A sharp metal
object from the top of the cathedral
comes down during a storm and stabs a
priest through the heart.
A guy in Italy is decapitated during an
accident and it looks fairly graphic.
John Moore who
also directed the original one is
terrific with this one. He brings lots of
shocks and frights throughout the story.
He shows great scenery too like in the
park where the trees and fog occurs while
Seamus Davey Fitzpatrick as
Damien tries to pull a trick on Julia
Stiles as Katherine by hiding on
her.
Also he has terrific surprising scenes
with the rottweilers and other people
attacking.
No one can forget that classic scene when
Fitzpatrick pushes Stiles
off the top floor in her mansion and she
collapses. That scene was well performed
but not as disturbing as the one in the
original.
Marco Beltrami
was marvellous with his classical
composing making his music very strong
and powerful with the scenes of the movie
itself.
Jerry Goldsmith's themes from the
original film were reused for this remake
too.
Father
Brennan: I was at the hospital, Mr.
Thorn, the night your son was born.
Robert Thorn: What do you know
about my son?
Father Brennan: Everything.
Katherine
Thorn: Don't let him kill me.
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