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How about a brief little thread on ‘The Exorcist for Protestants’ aka #TheOmen. First up, the poster art always creeped me out. The idea that the kids shadow was some sort of jackal...or dog. Brrr.
The anti-Christ, just chillin’ at his birthday party and waiting for the ‘entertainment’ to start...’It’s all for you Damien!’
And here’s the party shocker. Actress Holly Palance getting rigged up for the genuinely shocking hanging scene.
Now check out this no-messin Turkish lobby card for the film. Capturing the precise moment of impact.
Now a split second later, in colour. Look at that glass.
A spiked Patrick Troughton lies in the morgue. Did this scene make the film? It’s not familiar to me.
Here, director Richard Donner preps young actor Harvey Stevens for the ‘Not keen on church’ scene.
A 666 that seems to have mysteriously appeared on Patrick Troughton’s body (the impaled priest, from the famous church scene). In death, was he somehow claimed by the devil?
A quote from the movie ‘When the Jews return to Zion, and a comet fills the sky and the holy Roman Empire rises, then you and I must die. From the eternal sea he rises, creating armies on either shore, turning man against his brother, until man exists no more’
Which sounds like it’s from the Bible. But it’s made up. Okay, one more. The Oscar winning score by Jerry Goldsmith features Latin lyrics. Here’s the translation of the Ave Satani theme courtesy of https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/mawrgorshin.com/2017/12/02/analysis-of-the-omen/amp/
And with that I bid thee farewell.
