OMEN IV: THE AWAKENING MOVIE
OMEN IV: THE AWAKENING FULL

True to the previous installments, Karen thinks Delia just MIGHT be evil and hires a private investigator to find out. Scares the chakra out of her new-age hippy nanny and makes a REAL mess of the psychic fair she's dragged to. Delia ( Asia Vieira) roughs up a school-yard bully. Oh well, since when did plot holes matter in Hollywood? It's much more fun to see more demonically-caused 'accidents' and how much trouble the devil can stir up as a buck-toothed, snotty girl. CHRIST CAME BACK!!! The world as we knew it ENDED! We're talking about the thousand-year reign of the J-Man on Earth. All that seems pretty straight forward, but wait, at the end of Omen Numero Three-o. An unsuspecting, wealthy, politically influential couple, Gene and Karen York ( Michael Woods and Faye Grant), adopt the newborn daughter of the Anti-Christ from a Catholic orphanage, where the nuns know more about the child than they let on. Now, pay attention: Damien got kilt with one of those magical Ginsu knives in the last flick, but not before he had a chance to diddle a frisky TV reporter.

OMEN IV: THE AWAKENING MOVIE

Fox Television decides a fourth movie would be a hoot, and pays Omen producer Harvey Bernhard enough to sell his artistic soul. All are presented in a groovy new box set from Fox called The Omen Collection, with the fourth feature currently only available in the set.

So, what if the apocalyptic prophecies are true? What if Satan's child WILL rise to rule the world? And what if your rosy-cheeked, newborn son WERE the Anti-Christ? That's exactly what The Omen pondered and would laboriously explore through THREE sequels - Damien: Omen II, Omen III: The Final Conflict (1981, 108 minutes) and Omen IV: The Awakening (1991, 97 minutes).

OMEN IV: THE AWAKENING FULL

And Hollywood didn't have to look any further than The Bible itself for truly horrific inspiration, as the pages of Revelation are chock full of garish descriptions of Earth's end times, about the rise of the Anti-Christ and all the really nasty stuff he's gonna do. It was Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist that proved moviegoers were itching to have the wits scared out of them by Old Scratch hisself - the original bogeyman who has pervaded our collective fear for all of time.

Omen iv: the awakening