The brat grows up creepy, and people around her tend to die in non-18 certificate freak accidents, which prompts Mummy into hiring a private eye to discover what we guessed in reel one, that the kid is the daughter of Anti-Christ Damien Thorn and intends to take over the family business in a new series of films. However, that would underestimate severely Hollywood’s power to flog a dead horse, as is demonstrated by this literally incredible attempt to get the series going again, produced for American television and given a theatrical release overseas in the hopes of ripping off people who don’t realise they’re being foisted off with a lousy old TV movie when they expect some of the big name guest stars, panavision gloom and spectacular decapitations of the earlier episodes.Įssentially a remake of The Omen, but cheaper, this has a politically ambitious couple (Grant, Woods) adopting a sinister little girl (Vieira) whose background is shrouded in mystery.

Given that the last sequel to The Omen was called The Final Conflict and wound up with the Second Coming of Christ, you’d think it would be hard to come up with another instalment.

Omen iv: the awakening