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Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2
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Just as pint-sized demonic toddler Damien Thorn from THE OMEN (inspired by Linda Blair from THE EXORCIST) grew up into a young military school teenager for DAMIEN: OMEN 2, the genre of haunted manor horror progresses into a slow-burn body-count thriller, more violently meticulous than suspensefully-spooky, and ultimately pretty satisfying...
And it's all the work of two directors, initially shot by GET CARTER British auteur Mike Hodges before being replaced (with some scenes reshot) by ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES' Don Taylor...
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Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 with Lucas Donat
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Once an actor alongside new Damien patriarch William Holden, who (with scowling and overprotective wife/mother/aunt Lee Grant by his side) serves as a kind of referee between his secretly possessed nephew and perfectly-polite son: the latter like Damien's very own brother, who's supposed to inherit the Thorn Corporation...
Which of course will not and cannot happen, thanks to well-dressed antagonists in deep-voiced/ultra-serious Robert Foxworth and military academy instructor Lance Henriksen: doing most of the murderous dirty work (brutally backed by a pounding orchestration) while young actor Jonathan Scott-Taylor narrows his eyes viciously yet subtly — both adult overseers existing in locations mostly shot by Hodges, and where some of the best scene occur...
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| Elizabeth Sheperd and William Holden in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
The factory harbors ominously creative death sequences, and the military academy's subplot involves a bullying student and professor, both learning the hard way about how Satan's number one son is extremely untouchable...
Meanwhile, British ingenue Elizabeth Shepard's an investigative victim of a Hitchcockian killer raven: overall making OMEN 2 a tour-de-force horror/thriller with no downtime, and always moving forward.
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| Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Ian Hendry in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Leo McKern in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Lance Henriksen in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Jonathan Scott-Taylor in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Elizabeth Sheperd and Lee Grant in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Lew Ayres and Robert Foxworth in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Diane Daniels in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Diane Daniels in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Robert Foxworth in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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| Allan Arbus in DAMIEN: OMEN 2 |
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