Graham Baker’s horror thriller in 1981 “The Final Conflict” tells the story of a Damien Thorne (Sam Neill), a rich and powerful CEO who inherits an ambassador from the United Kingdom. Damien is satisfied with the new position. He also begins to go out with a young woman named Kate (Lisa Harrow), whose son Peter (Barnaby Holm) looks at him as a paternal figure. Damien is happy to have the boy’s attention and starts feeding and modeling him.
Oh yes, did I mention that Damien is the Antichrist? Yes, he is the same Damien seen in Richard’s blockbuster giving “The Omen”, now become an adult and commanding an army of cultists. In the continuation of Don Taylor in 1978 “Damien: Omen II”, the young boy (played by Jonathan Scott-Taylor) was shocked to learn that he was the Antichrist and hated the idea that he would be forced to do the evil by his simple birthday. At the end of this film, however, Damien had started to reconcile with his demonic status. It was revealing that the Antichrist was treated to commit global destruction in a military school.
By the third chapter of the series of films “Omen” (alternately entitled “The Final Conflict” or “Omen III: The Final Conflict”), Damien is not only at peace with the Antichrist but by loving every minute. When he gets more power, he is happy as punch to handle him. Thus, when a priests framework finds the seven daggers of Megiddo, which are necessary to kill the Antichrist, Damien assassin them with pleasure in a pre -empty way. The rest of the intrigue of “the final conflict” implies the second coming of the efforts of Christ and Damien to arrest him.
It should be noted immediately that “the final conflict” sucks aloud. He obtained very bad reviews and even the hardcore fans “Omen” looked at him with embarrassment.
The final conflict was a massive disappointment
There are some interesting concepts in the “Omen” aftermath. In Richard’s first “omen”, the public knew that Little Damien was the Antichrist and was intended to destroy the earth in the name of Satan, but it was not clear as to the way in which he would actively do such. It was obvious that Damien was protected by nasty demonic forces which could go to all the “final destinations” on their victims by killing them with falling church arrows and glass windows, but Damien never, for example, picked up a chainsaw and began to remove the victims by himself. In “Omen II”, it is explained that the Antichrist will be inserted (by Satan and his earthly servants) in a position of power by birth. Damien is the son of an international ambassador, and he ends up controlling Thorne Industries, who influenced the food supply of the world. This means that Damien has access to politics, industry and soldiers.
All you need is a villain at the center of things to end all life on earth.
“The final conflict”, however, is really nothing interesting with these concepts. Damien squirrels a satanic church in his attic, which is a new wrinkle, but the film represents only the Antichrist as a politician who smiles who barks the return of “The Nazarene”. Oh yes, the intrigue implies the new birth of Christ and Damien’s efforts to assassinate the child before his world domination plans were concluded. The holder final conflict implies that four or five people meet in a church and trying to handle. Biblical passages float through the screen just before the credit bearing. If it were to be the final conflict between good and evil, it sucks.
There were other omen films after the final conflict
If you can believe it, “Omen IV: The Awakening” is practically as bad as “the final conflict”, although it can at least be more strange. Fox, wanting to milibonde to a moribund franchise for a few more dollars, chose to make a sequence of TV movies in “The Omen” in 1991, in the process of restarting the chronology of the franchise. This time, the Antichrist can be Delia (Asia Vieira), a girl adopted by Skittish Karen (Faye Grant), who was previously unable to have children. He finally revealed that Delia is the daughter of Damien and that she is waiting for a brother who will be the Antichrist, Mark II. Due to a very unusual demonic vanity, Delia would have been pregnant with her own brother (!) While she was still fetus in her mother’s belly (!!) and gave birth to her own brother before she was born (!!!). “Omen IV” mainly concerns an antichrist turducken.
In 2006, while all the main horror properties were repressed with impunity, “the omen” were reappeared by the director John Moore. This film with Julia Stiles as a mother of Damien and Liev Schreiber as a father. Like most of the remakes of its time, “The Omen” was more or less a Redux to the original Hautocytane. It was not very well revised, but he managed to win $ 119.3 million with a budget of 25 million dollars. This is why so many horror films have ended up being redone in the 2000s.
The Antichrist was sleeping for a long time after that before returning in 2024 for “The First Omen” by Arkasha Stevenson, a prequel to the original “omen”. This film was centered on Margaret (Nell Tiger Free), a Puton nun who is sent to work in an Italian orphanage. There, she begins to have demonic visions and discovers a dark conspiracy of nuns who apparently manipulate births and birth archives. Naturally, they have something to do with the creation and protection of the upcoming Antichrist. “The first omen”, unlike the many “omen” consequences, was quite excellent. He was elegant, scary and free at some glorious moments of demonic freak-out. At least we finished on a good note.
