Treating the 1976 Richard Donner-director horror film The Omen as a sacred text to be more fully explored in a weekly TV series is the first problem with Damien, premiering Monday night on A&E. The Gregory Peck-Lee Remick melodrama rode the Exorcist …

This new series picks up roughly 25 years after the events of the original 1976 film (wisely pretending the various sequels never happened) and explores what happens when the Antichrist comes of age in the modern world. It's not a bad premise, though …

'What did you do to become the Antichrist?' And I thought, 'Well, you can't really go out and play the Antichrist,' ” the 32-year-old British actor tells Zap2it. “You know, people who are kings can't necessarily play kings. They are endowed that by the …

After a bunch of mysterious deaths, it becomes clear that Damien is the antichrist and must be killed by the Seven Daggers of Megiddo. But his father, Robert Thorn, is killed before he can make that happen, and Damien ends up being raised by his uncle …

“Damien” is a horror show that debuted on March 7 on A&E. It is the TV show sequel to a movie called “The Omen.” In “The Omen,” Damien is an evil little boy of five-years-old. However, you won't need to watch the movie to see the show. There are handy …

When 5-year-old Damien took audiences by storm as the unintentional antichrist in the 1976 film The Omen, few knew it would lead to several horror spinoffs and remakes. On Monday, the next stage of that resurrection unfolded on A&E with the series …

We tell a dark, perverted version of the Christ story. We make the Antichrist but use the Christ story as a model. That's something I had not seen. We always just associate the Antichrist with the devil. We never see him as a mirror image of Christ in …

She takes what the old lady said to Damien, finds a biblical reference, deduces that, because Jesus was baptized on is 30th birthday and the old lady grabbed Damien's face on his birthday, that Thorn is about to start filling his ministry as the …

This is a show based on a good 40-year-old film—which already led to three bad sequels and a forgettable remake—that asks a very important question: "What if the antichrist grew up to be a hunky photographer in war-torn Syria?" That wasn't even the …

Haunted by his past, Damien must now come to terms with his true destiny — that he is the Antichrist, the most feared man throughout the ages. Glen Mazzara (“The Walking Dead”) acts as showrunner, which was an exciting reveal at the time …