It's All For You, Damien!

In honor of cinema's creepiest kid on his evil birthday, let's recap what happened with the first Omen to see if we really should have made another one. Travel back with me to the decadent 1970s, if you will, when cocaine was as common as table salt and homosexual Nazis roamed the streets disco-dancing...

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Strange Happenings on the Set of Donner's The Omen

"Having changed its title from 'The Antichrist' to 'The Birthmark,' the film seemed to fall victim to a sinister curse. Star Gregory Peck and screenwriter David Seltzer took separate planes to the UK...yet BOTH planes were struck by lightning. While producer Harvey Bernard was in Rome, lightning just missed him. Rottweilers hired for the film attacked their trainers. A hotel at which director Richard Donner was staying got bombed by the IRA; he was also struck by a car. After Peck canceled another flight, to Israel, the plane he would have chartered crashed...killing all on board. On day one of the shoot, several principal members of the crew survived a head-on car crash. The jinx appeared to persist well into post-production... when special effects artist John Richardson was injured and his girlfriend beheaded in an accident on the set of A Bridge Too Far (1977)."

I wonder if Richardson's girlfriend was beheaded by a piece of plate glass. And the whole 6th day of the 6th month thing? Yeah, that's been done before, too.

"As part of its pre-release publicity campaign, and to point out the significance of 'the three sixes' as The Sign of Satan, the movie was sneak-previewed nationwide in the USA on 6 June 1976. While audiences inside the theatres were being scared witless by the film, theatre employees were out front, busily putting up specially made posters declaring: 'Today is the SIXTH day of the SIXTH month of Nineteen-Seventy-SIX!' Hokey though it was, the gimmick worked quite well, as many a theatre patron literally 'freaked-out' upon seeing those posters as they left the previews."

And stupid theatre patrons will "freak-out" yet again today as they stumble blindly for the exits, their shirts stained with soda and peppered with Raisinets, as they notice the date.

"He who testifies to these things says, 'Surely I am coming quickly.' Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus! The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen." - Rev. 22:20-21