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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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| Year: | 1981 |
| Country of origin: | UK / USA |
| Director: | Graham Baker |
| Genre: | Satanic finale |
| Starring: | Sam Neill, Rossano Brazzi, Lisa Harrow |
| Rating: | 3/5 |
| IMDB link: | http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082377/ |
| Tagline: | The power of evil is no longer in the hands of a child. |
| Favourite line: | "Oh my Father, Lord of Silence, Supreme God of Desolation, though mankind reviles yet aches to embrace, strengthen my purpose to save the world from a second ordeal of Jesus Christ and his grubby mundane creed. Show man instead the raptures of Thy kingdom. Infuse in him the grandeur of melancholy, the divinity of loneliness, the purity of evil, the paradise of pain." |
So, the final battle is at hand and The Antichrist, Damien Thorn is, quite literally, hellbent on bringing an end to The Nazarene's reign and ushering in a dark, satanic era.
To do so, he must ensure that the Christ Child never sees the light of day. Through prophecy, Damien knows the day of the Christ Child's birth, but not the whereabouts, so instead he must kill all children born between midnight and six on March 24th to make sure he exterminates The Holy Bastard.
Sam Neill is good as the Lord of Darkness himself but, whilst the movie has its moments (the fox hunt / blood hound sequence is particularly good for example) the apocalyptic tone of, certainly, the first movie is sadly absent.
They try though: the scene with Damien's followers in the cave being suitably menacing and creepy, but it never lives up to the grandiose nature of the title. The Final Conflict should be epic, awe-inspiring, but this just falls slightly flat. And the very end is just plain silly.
Disappointing, though far from terrible, Neill is certainly the high point here.
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