Damien - Omen II(1978)
1978 · Don Taylor · 107 min
Since the sudden and suspicious deaths of his parents, young Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle and enrolled in a military school. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, he relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire — and the world.
Horror · Thriller
6.4850 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
3/5
Gore
3/5
Stays with you
How Damien - Omen II scares
There's a constant sense of doom hanging over every scene, like something bad is always about to happen to someone nearby. The pacing is slow and deliberate, following a teenage boy's normal life at school and with family, but it keeps cutting away to elaborate, nasty accidents that pick off people around him one by one. It leans more supernatural and fated than jumpy or chase-based, with dread building from the feeling that nobody can escape what's coming. It's got a handful of genuinely gruesome moments, but overall it plays more like a grim, fatalistic thriller than something that will haunt your sleep for days.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Damien - Omen II rates psychological 3/5, visceral 3/5, gore 3/5, lingering effect 3/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 3 of 5
- Gore: 3 of 5
- Lingering: 3 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 35 of 100 — leans Slow burn
Supernatural vs Real-world: 8 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 45 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
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A slow-building mystery that spaces out its shocks evenly, growing steadily more intense until a punishing final stretch.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 5.
How scary is Damien - Omen II?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Damien - Omen II rates 3/5 — solidly scary, building its fear through slow-burn dread rather than shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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