Top billed cast

1. 

   Gregory Peck

   Robert Thorn

2. 

   Lee Remick

   Katherine Thorn

3. 

   David Warner

   Keith Jennings

4. 

   Billie Whitelaw

   Mrs. Baylock

5. 

   Harvey Stephens

   Damien Thorn

6. 

   Patrick Troughton

   Father Brennan

7. 

   Martin Benson

   Father Spiletto

8. 

   Robert Rietti

   Monk

9. 

   Tommy Duggan

   Priest

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-03

OK, so at times this is a bit far-fetched, even for a horror movie, but I reckon it is still my favourite from the genre made in the 1970s. From a rather murky start in a Roman hospital, we see Gregory Peck and wife Lee Remmick head to London where he is to be US Ambassador - along with their new baby son "Damien" (cue the squeaking violins). Not long after their arrival, their nanny commits suicide - rather gruesomely, as it happens - facilitating the arrival of "Mrs. Baylock" (a rather menacing Billie Whitelaw). As the boy ages, and fuelled by some rather ghastly prophesies by Patrick Trough...read the rest

Recommendations

1. Stigmata62%
2. The First Omen68%
3. Damien - Omen II64%
4. Orphan69%
5. Please Don't Feed the Children62%
6. Succubus85%
7. End of Days60%
8. Dolly59%
9. Passenger67%
10. Case 3963%
11. The Deliverance59%
12. The Final Conflict58%
13. The Pope's Exorcist69%
14. Saint Catherine63%
15. The Nun59%
16. Prey for the Devil68%
17. The Blood on Satan's Claw62%
18. Cobweb64%
19. Deliver Us from Evil62%
20. The Gate60%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$2,800,000.00

Revenue
$60,922,980.00

Keywords

• ambassador
• prophecy
• monk
• photography
• nanny
• paranormal phenomena
• rottweiler
• devil's son
• revelation
• satan
• anti-christ
• decapitation
• priest
• conspiracy
• religion
• cowardliness
• devil
• baboon
• archaeologist
• macabre
• awestruck
• ominous
• 666