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* Damien killing Mark via a brain hemorrhage in the second film when the latter refuses to join Damien's quest for world domination.



* Joan Hart's death, with huge heapings of EyeScream.



* Damien's omnious last words in the third movie. Since Omen IV can be pretty much considered non canon, it's left to the viewers imagination what he meant.
--> '''Damien''': Nazaren... you have won ''nothing.''
* Aunt Marion in the second movie suffering from a heart attack when she sees the [[CreepyCrows raven]] during the night.

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* Damien's omnious last words in the third movie. Since Omen IV ''Omen IV'' can be pretty much considered non canon, it's left to the viewers imagination what he meant.
--> '''Damien''': Nazaren...Nazarene... you have won ''nothing.''
* Aunt Marion in the second movie suffering from a heart attack when she sees the [[CreepyCrows raven]] during the night.
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* The remake shows [[spoiler:how preposterously ''easy'' it is to kill a hospital patient]].
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* Damiens omnious last words in the third movie. Since Omen IV can be pretty much considered non canon, its left to the viewers imagination what he meant.
--> '''Damien''': Nazaren... you have won ''nothing''

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* Damiens Damien's omnious last words in the third movie. Since Omen IV can be pretty much considered non canon, its it's left to the viewers imagination what he meant.
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* Aunt Marion in the second movie suffering from a heart attack when she sees the [[CreepyCrows raven]] during the night.

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* Damiens omnious last words in the third movie. Since Omen IV can be pretty much considered non canon, its left to the viewers imagination what he meant.
--> '''Damien''': Nazaren... you have won ''nothing''
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** Justified when you see the end of the third movie, where [[spoiler:the Second Coming happens despite all Damian's scheming.]] As in the Indiana Jones movies, it turns out God had it handled all along. You'd think priests would have enough sense to trust the omniscient, omnipotent entity they worship to look after itself, and the prophecy to play itself out exactly as predicted.

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* Jerry Goldsmith's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkFLdPaoZQ classic]] OminousLatinChanting is terrifying alone. Then they add it to scenes featuring a CreepyChild AntiChrist and people being murdered.

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* Jerry Goldsmith's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkFLdPaoZQ classic]] OminousLatinChanting is terrifying alone. Then they add it to scenes featuring a CreepyChild AntiChrist [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] and people being murdered.



* It's creepy enough looking at an ancient painting showing the face of the Antichrist, it would be even worse when he looks just like your adopted son.

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* It's creepy enough looking at an ancient painting showing the face of the Antichrist, TheAntichrist, it would be even worse when he looks just like your adopted son.



* The most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by stabbing him with knives. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]

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* The most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by stabbing him with knives. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, TheAntichrist, but still...]]


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* Damien killing Mark via a ''brain hemorrhage'' in the second film when the latter refuses to join Damien's quest for world domination.

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* Damien killing Mark via a ''brain hemorrhage'' brain hemorrhage in the second film when the latter refuses to join Damien's quest for world domination.
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* The most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by ''stabbing him with knives''. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]

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* The most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by ''stabbing stabbing him with knives''.knives. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]
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* The fact that Damien has all the help in the world, both supernatural and from human followers, while the good guys are basically left to try and take down the Anti Christ by themselves with no assistance whatsoever from any divine forces, with a predictable result. You'd think God would be a little more keen on keeping the Anti Christ unborn, but nope, humanity is left to fend for itself as usual.
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* Keith Jennings [[spoiler: getting his head lopped off. The original version is arguably more frightening due to the film makers pulling it off convincingly without the aid of special effects.]]

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* Keith Jennings [[spoiler: getting his head lopped off.sheared off by a plate-glass window. The original version is arguably more frightening due to the film makers pulling it off convincingly without the aid of special effects.]]
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* The scene in the 2006 version when [[spoiler: Kate is in the hospital and the evil nanny uses a syringe to create an air bubble in the IV line which slowly moves down the tube and Kate is unable to do ANYTHING. The original just has the evil nanny chuck Kate out the window, which is kind of anti-climatic compared to the other deaths in the movie.]]

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* The scene in the 2006 version when [[spoiler: Kate is in the hospital and the evil nanny uses a syringe to create an air bubble in the IV line which slowly moves down the tube and Kate is unable to do ANYTHING. The ]] [[ParanoiaFuel Watch this scene and realize how utterly quick and easy it is for someone to kill you in the hospital]]. [[spoiler:The original just has the evil nanny chuck Kate out the window, which is kind of anti-climatic compared to the other deaths in the movie.]]]]
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* Thoughout the first three films, it becomes clear Damien's followers are ''everywhere'' and could [[ParanoiaFue be anyone]].

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* Thoughout the first three films, it becomes clear Damien's followers are ''everywhere'' and could [[ParanoiaFue [[ParanoiaFuel be anyone]].
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* Thoughout the first three films, it becomes clear Damien's followers are ''everywhere'' and could [[ParanoiaFuel literally be anyone]].

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* Thoughout the first three films, it becomes clear Damien's followers are ''everywhere'' and could [[ParanoiaFuel literally [[ParanoiaFue be anyone]].
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-->'''Evil Nanny:''' Have no fear little one. I am here to protect thee.

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-->'''Evil Nanny:''' -->'''Mrs. Baylock:''' Have no fear little one. I am here to protect thee.
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* Joan Hart's death, with huge heapings of EyeScream.

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* Most scenes involving Mrs. Baylock were this for me. Her ability to seem so collected and proper for one scene, than outright demonic in another. The best example is the climax where she [[spoiler: sneaks up on Mr. Thorn and starts biting and clawing at him and she just won't go down. It takes two knives in the neck just to stop her. Or a car if you're going by the remake.]]

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* Most scenes involving Mrs. Baylock were this for me.Baylock. Her ability to seem so collected and proper for one scene, than outright demonic in another. The best example is the climax where she [[spoiler: sneaks up on Mr. Thorn and starts biting and clawing at him and she just won't go down. It takes two knives in the neck just to stop her. Or a car if you're going by the remake.]]



* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[NightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
* The mother's nightmares in the 2006 remake are examples of this as well. The first having her in a tub seeing Damian wearing a wooden mask, then cut to her face, then back to Damian making an fast inhuman scream while holding the rope the first nanny hanged herself with. The second was her brushing her teeth when she hears something. There's nothing but when she closes the bathroom mirror, there's a red-cloaked... thing wearing an animal skull over its face. What the hell was that thing?
* The original trilogy is filled to the brim with this.
** The remake, for example, shows [[spoiler:how preposterously ''easy'' it is to kill a hospital patient]].
** In the original film, [[spoiler: the nanny's eyes when she kills Catherine.]]

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* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[NightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], Satanists, chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
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* The mother's nightmares in the 2006 remake are examples of this as well. The first having her in a tub seeing Damian wearing a wooden mask, then cut to her face, then back to Damian making an fast inhuman scream while holding the rope the first nanny hanged herself with. The second was her brushing her teeth when she hears something. There's nothing but when she closes the bathroom mirror, there's a red-cloaked... thing wearing an animal skull over its face. What the hell was that thing?\n
* The original trilogy is filled to the brim with this.
** The remake, for example,
remake shows [[spoiler:how preposterously ''easy'' it is to kill a hospital patient]].
** * In the original film, [[spoiler: the nanny's eyes when she kills Catherine.]]
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* *Smiles* "Damien! Damien, look at me! It's all for you!" *Jumps*

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* How about John Pertwee as the priest trying to find refuge at the church only to get skewered on a lightning rod. NightmareFuel for running from... well, Satan. It's also ParanoiaFuel for the reason that even churches and holy grounds can't keep you safe.
** You mean, Patrick Troughton. Jon (not John) Pertwee was the Third Doctor, and not in this film.
** YMMV, though, considering he's the same guy that portrayed the Second Doctor in Doctor Who.

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* How about John Pertwee Patrick Troughton as the priest trying to find refuge at the church only to get skewered on a lightning rod. NightmareFuel for running from... well, Satan. It's also ParanoiaFuel for the reason that even churches and holy grounds can't keep you safe.
** You mean, Patrick Troughton. Jon (not John) Pertwee was the Third Doctor, and not in this film.
** YMMV, though, considering he's the same guy that portrayed the Second Doctor in Doctor Who.
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**Maybe so, but the build up to the murder was terrifying. [[spoiler:For one thing, we have no idea Baylock is even in the hospital so when she opens the door we only have no idea it's her. But when Kate turns around and sees the sheer evil in her eyes it's heart stopping. It's so terrifying(to her) she can't even scream.]]
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** You mean, Patrick Troughton. Jon (not John) Pertwee was the Third Doctor, and not in this film.

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* The evil Rottweiliers.

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* The evil Rottweiliers.Rottweilers.


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* The original trilogy is filled to the brim with this.
** The remake, for example, shows [[spoiler:how preposterously ''easy'' it is to kill a hospital patient]].
** In the original film, [[spoiler: the nanny's eyes when she kills Catherine.]]
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* How about John Pertwee as the priest trying to find refuge at the church only to get skewered on a lightning rod. NightmareFuel for running from... well, Satan. It's also ParanoiaFuel for the reason that even churches and holy grounds can't keep you safe.
** YMMV, though, considering he's the same guy that portrayed the Second Doctor in Doctor Who.
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* The mother's nightmares in the 2006 remakes are examples of this as well. The first having her in a tub seeing Damian wearing a wooden mask, then cut to her face, then back to Damian making an fast inhuman scream while holding the rope the first nanny hanged herself with. The second was her brushing her teeth when she hears something. There's nothing but when she closes the bathroom mirror, there's a red-cloaked... thing wearing an animal skull over its face. What the hell was that thing?

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* The mother's nightmares in the 2006 remakes remake are examples of this as well. The first having her in a tub seeing Damian wearing a wooden mask, then cut to her face, then back to Damian making an fast inhuman scream while holding the rope the first nanny hanged herself with. The second was her brushing her teeth when she hears something. There's nothing but when she closes the bathroom mirror, there's a red-cloaked... thing wearing an animal skull over its face. What the hell was that thing?
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* The mother's nightmares in the 2006 remakes are examples of this as well. The first having her in a tub seeing Damian wearing a wooden mask, then cut to her face, then back to Damian making an fast inhuman scream while holding the rope the first nanny hanged herself with. The second was her brushing her teeth when she hears something. There's nothing but when she closes the bathroom mirror, there's a red-cloaked... thing wearing an animal skull over its face. What the hell was that thing?
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* Arguably the most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by ''stabbing him with knives''. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]

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* Arguably the The most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by ''stabbing him with knives''. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]



* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.

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* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[NightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
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* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.

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* Also from the fourth movie, when that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
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* When that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.

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* When Also from the fourth movie, when that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
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* What about on the fourth movie? To this troper, two scenes frightened him. The first was that when this woman was bitten by snakes and died under the shadow of the upside-down cross? The music did not help at all.
** And this one scared me even more. When that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. This is why this troper will never watch The Omen ever again.
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* What about on From the fourth movie? To this troper, two scenes frightened him. The first was that movie, when this woman was bitten by snakes and died under the shadow of the upside-down cross? The music did not help at all.
** And this one scared me even more. * When that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. This is why this troper will It might make one decide to never watch The Omen ever again.
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* Jerry Goldsmith's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3OkFLdPaoZQ classic]] OminousLatinChanting is terrifying alone. Then they add it to scenes featuring a CreepyChild AntiChrist and people being murdered.
* Damien. The concept of the Antichrist being a child who is fully aware of the terror that he is directly and indirectly causing is freaky. What could make that worse? The fact that he acts so ''[[CheerfulChild innocent and adorable]]'' most of the time.
* The evil Rottweiliers.
* What is it with the nannies in this film? One's [[spoiler: hanging herself to death]] during a party, admittedly it was during the devil's son party, so it was probably the perfect gift. Then we get a new one with eyes so evil no parent in their right mind would allow her near the house never mind their child.
-->'''Evil Nanny:''' Have no fear little one. I am here to protect thee.
-->'''Damien:''' *smiles*
* It's creepy enough looking at an ancient painting showing the face of the Antichrist, it would be even worse when he looks just like your adopted son.
* The ironing scene in the third movie. The fact that we don't actually see [[spoiler: Dean's child getting ironed to death]] really doesn't help.
* Thoughout the first three films, it becomes clear Damien's followers are ''everywhere'' and could [[ParanoiaFuel literally be anyone]].
* Arguably the most terrifying moment is at the end of the first film [[spoiler: where Robert Thorne goes into the church dragging Damien inside in order to kill him by ''stabbing him with knives''. All the while Damien is screaming "No, Daddy, no!". Yes, it's the AntiChrist, but still...]]
* Keith Jennings [[spoiler: getting his head lopped off. The original version is arguably more frightening due to the film makers pulling it off convincingly without the aid of special effects.]]
* Then there's the graveyard scene, when Robert Thorne digs up the grave where Damien's real mother lies, [[spoiler: only to find the skeleton of a jackal resting in there]]. He then digs up the child's grave, with the logic that if it was [[spoiler: the skeleton of a jackal cub]] then his real son was still alive. But upon finding a human baby skeleton inside, the sorrow on his face is painful to watch.
--> "They killed him the instant he was born."
* The scene in the 2006 version when [[spoiler: Kate is in the hospital and the evil nanny uses a syringe to create an air bubble in the IV line which slowly moves down the tube and Kate is unable to do ANYTHING. The original just has the evil nanny chuck Kate out the window, which is kind of anti-climatic compared to the other deaths in the movie.]]
* The scene with the troop of baboons going crazy when they realize who Damien really is.
* Damien killing Mark via a ''brain hemorrhage'' in the second film when the latter refuses to join Damien's quest for world domination.
* Most scenes involving Mrs. Baylock were this for me. Her ability to seem so collected and proper for one scene, than outright demonic in another. The best example is the climax where she [[spoiler: sneaks up on Mr. Thorn and starts biting and clawing at him and she just won't go down. It takes two knives in the neck just to stop her. Or a car if you're going by the remake.]]
* What about on the fourth movie? To this troper, two scenes frightened him. The first was that when this woman was bitten by snakes and died under the shadow of the upside-down cross? The music did not help at all.
** And this one scared me even more. When that detective (I forgot what his name was) was hearing people singing Christmas carols as he saw the little Christmas statues of the baby Jesus, this happened: he gets a vision of the baby Jesus statue [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel turning demonic and the carolers turning into creepy Satanists]], chanting [[OminousLatinChanting a spooky chant in Latin]] and flipping a cross upside down. This is why this troper will never watch The Omen ever again.
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