Damien: Omen II

Damien Omen II is a 1978 American horror film directed by Don Taylor, starring William Holden, Lee Grant, and Jonathan ScottTaylor. The film was the second installment in The Omen series, set seven years after the first film, and was followed by a third installment, Omen III The Final Conflict, in 1981.

A week after the burial of Robert and Katherine Thorn, archeologist Carl Bugenhagen Leo McKern learns of the survival of their adopted son Damien. Confiding to his friend Michael Morgan Ian Hendry that Damien is the Antichrist, Bugenhagen attempts to convince him to give Damiens guardian a box containing the means to kill Damien. As Morgan is unconvinced, Bugenhagen takes him to some local ruins to see the mural of Yigaels Wall, which was said to have been drawn by one who saw the Devil and had visions of the Antichrist as he would appear from birth to death. Though Morgan believes him upon seeing an ancient depiction of the Antichrist with Damiens face, both he and Bugenhagen are buried alive as the tunnel collapses on them.Seven years later, the 12year old Damien Jonathan ScottTaylor is living with his uncle, industrialist Richard Thorn William Holden and his wife, Ann Lee Grant. Damien gets along well with his cousin Mark Lucas Donat, Richards son from his first marriage, with whom he is enrolled in a military academy. However, Damien is despised by Richards aunt, Marion Sylvia Sidney, who sees him as a bad influence on Mark. Though Marion threatens to cut Richard out of her will if he does not separate the two boys, she dies of a heart attack while visited by a raven in the dead of night. Soon after, through his friend and curator of the Thorn Museum, Dr. Charles Warren Nicholas Pryor, Richard is introduced to journalist Joan Hart Elizabeth Shephard. Hart was a colleague of Keith Jennings, the journalist decapitated seven years previously after befriending Robert Thorn to investigate the circumstances surrounding Damiens birth and adoption by the Thorns. Hart has pieced together the circumstances of Jennings death after seeing Yigaels Wall. Though no one believes her, Joan believes she may have been mistaken about Damien until she sees his face at his school and drives off in a panic. On the road, after her cars engine mysteriously dies, Joan is attacked by the

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