I love this movie. Still, burying the jackal mother in a coffin is

That was one of the most unsettling scenes for me

Well, since it gave birth to the son of Satan, I'm guessing that they figured it needed a better burial than that of the average jackal.

What do you expect from religious nutcases?

"Who can't use the Force now?! I can still use the Force!" - Yarael Poof

You should go through the irish graveyards that are situated away from churches because the people dying were poor. A jackal would be a step up

Interestingly, it probably wasn't intended to be 'hokey' at all.
The novel goes into it a good bit more, but everything the Satanists did had 'meaning'.
The jackal didn't just magically conceive the baby, it was actually raped in a ceremony by the Devil.
The rogue priest is there, listening to it scream.

So surely the burial of the jackal alongside the dead, murdered Thorn baby likely had ritualistic significance too.



I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

This was a major sticking point in the story for me. Why would the corrupted priests go to the trouble of giving an animal a somewhat Christian burial, even going so far as to give it a phony name, Maria Sciana, in an ancient, abandoned cemetery, 50km north of Rome? And if said cemetery was abandoned, why did it have vicious guard dogs? The hospital burned down in the aftermath of Damien's birth, destroying all records. Anyone who came close to discovering his identity met a bizarre death. If Satan was trying to cover his tracks, this seemed very counter-productive.

Also, concerning the pivotal birthday party scene, shouldn't it have been his sixth, which would be in keeping with the significance of that number?