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Solid horror film starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as the unfortunate parents of the Anti-Christ. With Patrick Troughton as a priest and David Warner as a paparazzi who discovers dark premonitions in his photographs and tries to warn Peck. Several of its horror scenes have become iconic, including a spectacular beheading. Weakened only by the lack of a clear antagonist: Damien, the boy, behaves mostly like any other five year old kid, leaving it to the Devil himself to work his evil from off-screen. Greatly superior to the novelization, also written by David Seltzer.
Solid horror film starring Gregory Peck and Lee Remick as the unfortunate parents of the Anti-Christ. With Patrick Troughton as a priest and David Warner as a paparazzi who discovers dark premonitions in his photographs and tries to warn Peck. Several of its horror scenes have become iconic, including a spectacular beheading. Weakened only by the lack of a clear antagonist: Damien, the boy, behaves mostly like any other five year old kid, leaving it to the Devil himself to work his evil from off-screen. Greatly superior to the novelization, also written by David Seltzer.
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