The Omen Directed by Richard Donner / Screenplay by David Seltzer

Damien: Omen II Directed by Don Taylor / Screenplay by Stanley Mann and Mike Hodges

Omen III: The Final Conflict Directed by Graham Baker / Screenplay by Andrew Birkin

A sub-genre of horror cinema particularly prevalent in the 1960s and 1970s concerns the notion of a child possessed by demonic forces, perhaps even the offspring of the Devil himself. Celebrated examples include Rosemary’s Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973), but the juggernaut of the genre was The Omen (1976), a star-studded international co-production which broke 20th Century Fox’s box-office records and became one of the decade’s highest-grossing films. Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner and Billie Whitelaw head the cast in an apocalyptic tale of two babies secretly swapped at birth: one the child of the US Ambassador to London, and the other the son of Satan, nurtured and protected by a secret cabal. Without a single line of dialogue, five-year-old Harvey Stephens brings to the role of Damien a combination of cherubic innocence and baleful malevolence as grisly accidents befall anyone unlucky enough to discover the truth: the film’s celebrated shock moments include lethal encounters with a lightning rod and a sheet of plate glass, the terror ramped up by a gloriously satanic choral score which won Jerry Goldsmith his only Oscar. A sequel was inevitable, and 1978’s Damien: Omen II finds teenage actor Jonathan Scott-Taylor in the title role. The Antichrist is now turning thirteen, and a second spate of gruesome deaths reveal to Damien the truth about himself: a traumatic awakening that darkly mirrors the pangs of adolescence. Concluding the trilogy, 1981’s The Final Conflict gives Sam Neill one of his earliest starring roles, as the adult Damien prepares for dominion over the world: in the words of the publicity tagline, ‘The power of evil is no longer in the hands of a child…’

Framed Dimensions: 400mm x 280mm

Acrylic on 300gsm Arches oil paper
Glazed, mounted and framed

Supplied with signed letter of authenticity from Barnaby.