Damien: Omen II

I've lost count of how many times I've watched the classic 1978 movie (to the point that I know all the lines of every character lol...), so I was very hopeful that this book would expand on the story, which was by necessity a bare framework considering the practical time restraints of the cinema. As you typically see when a book is based on a movie rather than the other way around, it amounts to little more than mirroring the screenplay without fleshing out the story or the characters much at all. I suppose it would have been difficult to get permission to wander far from the central story whilst writing this book, but it doesn't take much imagination to do what was done here. What I had in mind would have resulted in a book twice as long as this one. I agree with another reviewer that this book did not capture the fear that the movie did (although even the Omen II movie had nothing on the original in this regard!).This experience will still be enjoyable for big fans of the movie, but you won't learn anything you didn't already know.

Thank you. I got it in the Mail 06/13/2022.

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Everything as described.

I really enjoy reading the book. It's a great sequel to The Omen. After seeing the 2nd Omen movie on Netfilx I wanted to read the book.

I ordered a book from this store and it appears to have been mailed via covered wagon! The time lag is appalling and I attempted to contact seller to find out when the book would arrive and received no response. I only received an automated email saying that the store is very busy and they would email back at their convenience.

Just in case you do not know already, Damien: Omen II is an adaptation of the movie of the same name. Damien: Omen II is a sequel to "The Omen'. The original Omen movie started out as a novel, while Damien: Omen II started out as a screenplay which the novel is closely based on.The story takes place seven years later in which Damien the Antichrist is now thirteen years old, and totally in the dark about his diabolic heritage and destiny. He now lives with his uncle, who runs Thorn Industries, his second wife Ann, and his cousin Mark. As usual, anybody who steps in Damien's way to his destiny or knows his true nature is promptly knocked off in ingenious and gruesome ways. WHile a huge black mastiff lingers around Damien in the first movie/novel, now a monstrous raven hovers ominously nearby.The biggest change in the novel from the movie is the Joan Hart character. In the film, she was merely just a reason for the producers to stick in another gruesome death scene. In the novel, her role was expanded. Her association switched from the David Warner character in the first movie to the archeologist Michael Morgan in the second film's prolouge.Another change is Ann Thorn. In the film it is suggested that she was in league with the DEvil and was dispatched when her usefulness was over. In the book, it is not clear what her true motivation was in the story's finale.Earlier editions contains photographs from the movie, which you may be able to find in used book stores.Overall, the book is a good read, even though it lacked the religious details and atmosphere of the first movie, the book still ended with an evil note like the first one, in which evil triumphs.

wie bereits in Teil 1 furchtbare Rechtschreibfehler, die einen manchmal den Sinn eines Satzes nur noch erahnen lassen. Korrektur hat hier keiner gelesen...schade

Absoluter Pflichtkauf! Ich wurde nicht enttäuscht! Super!