Omen IV: The awakening

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Movie
German title Omen IV: The awakening
Original title Omen IV: The Awakening
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Jorge Montesi
Dominique Othenin-Girard
script Brian Taggert
production Harvey Bernhard
Mace Neufeld
music Jonathan Sheffer
camera Martin Fuhrer
cut Bruce Giesbrecht
Frank Irvine
occupation
chronology

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Barbara’s Baby - Omen III

Omen IV: The Awakening (Original title: Omen IV: The Awakening ) is an American horror film by Jorge Montesi and Dominique Othenin-Girard from 1991. It is the third sequel to the horror film The Omen from 1976.

action

Damien Thorn has been dead for years, and thus the curse of the beast, the so-called antichrist, seems to be over. But the princes of hell have already sent a new antichrist. Karen and Gene York adopt Delia, a baby girl. Delia grows up like a normal child. But at the age of 8, mysterious deaths suddenly occur in their environment. The nanny Josephine Thueson thinks Delia is suspicious and confides in Karen and her partner Noah. She is later murdered.

Karen hires a private detective to investigate the background of Delia's birth. The lawyer is increasingly suffering from anxiety. Eventually she discovers that Delia is a daughter of the antichrist Damien Thorn. Karen gives birth to a son and thinks her biological child should be the Antichrist. Then she learns that it is Delia's brother. She kills the attending doctor, who is responsible for the fact that her alleged biological son was born, then she returns home to kill Delia and her son as well. A gunshot can be heard, in the cemetery scene it becomes clear that Karen killed herself.

Reviews

“Routinely staged horror story, which cleverly covers up the lack of logic with sophisticated camera settings, technical cabinet bits and moody music. The film offers fans of the genre exciting entertainment. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The continuation of the cinema success of 1976 suffers from short arcs of tension and predictable shock effects in a rather cheap implementation. Conclusion: the dead wake up, spectators fall asleep. "

- TV movie

background

This time the film was not shot in the USA, but in Vancouver, Canada .

After the takeover by Rupert Murdoch , attempts were made at 20th Century Fox to reissue older films for television (not for the cinema). The selection also fell on the classic The Omen , which they wanted to process in a new guise. The script of the fourth Omen film was therefore designed in such a way that it has clear parallels to the original, but is still independent. An essential difference here is that the child protagonist - now the female Delia - is well aware of his actions and not, like Damien in the first two parts, does many things unintentionally. The connection to politics is restored, Delia's foster father is a member of Congress, just like Damien's father was a politician.

A TV series called The Omen was also planned to follow up the film, but its content was more reminiscent of films like Poltergeist , as the pilot was no longer about the Antichrist, but about evil spirits. However, the pilot didn't go down well, and as a result, it didn't make a series.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Omen IV: The Awakening. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Omen IV: The Awakening on tvspielfilm.de
  3. ↑ Filming locations for Omen IV: The Awakening, accessed July 18, 2007
  4. ↑ End credits of the film