Boring. Was it ever considered scary?

Very scary in the '70s following The Exorcist and Jaws. The shocking beginning, the Rottweiler, the spooky kid, the terrific score, the decapitation. All this before a thousand other movies came along and we got used to seeing it all.

it might have been scary in 1970s... definitive.
Today we're getting TV Shows like "Supernatural" and movies like "Saw" which are more scary/brutal than this movie so it might for horror-goers more boring because not having any splatter effects etc.

But i think it still works today. The horror begins step by step and lot things happen in our head I would say.

It's satanic and demonic, something you can't see, could be in your room now, that's scary.

It is fine of you didn't like it, but to me, in its genre, The Omen is a masterpiece. All the elements work great together!


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Well, I quite like it. I think it has everything you could want in a horror movie. Atmosphere, suspense, good acting, a good story, an exquisite soundtrack, and iconic death scenes. It isn't a movie for those with a short attention span. It requires you to pay attention and concentrate on the story whereas some other horror movies are just mindless entertainment with jump scares.

It was not scary to me, and I saw it in its original theatrical release. I had been spoiled by The Exorcist and was expecting The Omen to come within at least within a stone's throw of the Friedkin-Blatty film. I was shocked and dismayed at The Omen's amateurishness, its predictability, its fundamentalism and sheer stupidity. The only things I liked about the film were Goldsmith's monumental score and the slick cinemaphotography.

The music, the hanging babysitter, the Rottweiler's, the impaling of the priest scene, creepy Damien, it's very much so scary.

-Di

I saw this recently (first time viewing) and I found it creepy as hell. As others have said it's what you don't see that is scary. It's the atmosphere of dread and the insidious background presence and influences of the devil that unsettles.

The Ninth Gate (another film you'd find boring no doubt) also does this very well. There are no CGI devils or demons on display, there are instead subtle occurrences, implications, evil presences and the almighty atmosphere of dread.

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