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Sequel that is blasphemy - Omen IV the Awakening
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Read the book instead! Please!
This sequel, the only way to put it, is just plain blasphemy and I am a big fan of the Omen film series! This sequel picks up about ten years after the last Omen film, the Final Conflict.
If you saw that 1981 movie, you saw the son of Satan, Damien Thorn square off against the lord and, well, you can guess what happens since his isn't in this one. However, it appears an adopted orphan girl (played by Asia Vieira) is his offspring and has been unwittingly adopted by a senator and his unsuspecting wife. The wife played by Faye Grant (V series) finds out that her adopted daughter is the devil's kid and, of course, is up to no good.
This sequel is basically a rip off of the first Omen from 1976. The infamous beheading scene from that film is almost exactly duplicated here. Instead of a boy, we have a bad girl. The film, which could have been promising, instead, is boring and stupid. There's only memorable death scene (if you saw the original three Omen movies, you know they all had memorable death scenes) by a wrecking ball.
Instead of watching this mess, read the book! I know this advice is clichéd, but it's the truth. The year after the Final Conflict came out, there was a book released called Omen IV: Armageddon 2000 written by Gordon McGill. In that book, which picked up right after the end of the Final Conflict, Damien Thorn's son is born. The book details his rise to power. See if you can check this book out from the library instead of watching the blasphemous Omen IV: The Awakening. There are some doozies of death scenes in that book! Wish Fox had filmed that instead!
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