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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
City joins worldwide premier of The Omen
* 666 rises at Gaisano Mall cinema Tuesday
"THE signs are all around you. On the 6th day of the 6th month of the 6th year, his day will come..."
And so begins John Moore's version of The Omen, which opens today at Gaisano Mall of Davao Cinema 1 simultaneously with the June 6, 2006 (that's 6-6-6) worldwide release.
The remake based on the classic horror flick of the same name some 30 years ago starts with Robert Thorn, a senior American diplomat and his young, beautiful wife Katherine, whom we're told at the beginning delivers a still born child.
Desperate to save his wife from the grief of their loss, Father Spiletto convinces Robert to take the recently orphaned Damien and raise him as their own child.
All is well until Damien's 5th birthday when a series of terrible incidents occur in Damien's presence, beginning with the suicide of the family nanny during Damien's birthday celebration.
Slowly but surely Katherine starts to suspect that something is terribly wrong with their child Damien, and that perhaps he's not their real son.
Father Brennan tries to warn Robert that his son is in fact the anti-Christ and there is little time to save us all from the impending apocalypse.
Then, we see a meeting at the Vatican to discuss the recent "signs" occurring all over the world.
Revelations that are compared to recent events such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina and it's clear that something is amiss.
It is then five years later and we are brought up to speed with Thorn (now the US ambassador to Great Britain) and his family (now residing in London).
Once the horrific birthday party sequence plays out towards the end of the first act, the remainder of the movie just keeps heading toward grimmer and darker territory and doesn't let up. Robert gets another warning from Father Brennan, which convinces him that his claims merit some investigation. He teams up with photographer Jennings, whose recent photographs may hold some clues as to what's going on.
Most critics agreed that The Omen is a tightly wound, pitch-perfect update that's smart, scary and ominous.
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