The Omen
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Robert Thorn is American ambassador to London. A series of tragic and mysterious deaths occur among those closest to him. Keith Jennings, a photographer, and Father Brennan persuade Thorn that Damien, his five-year-old adopted son of obscure origins, is in fact the Antichrist. Thorn adopted Damien without his wife's knowledge, after the birth of their own child, who died without explanation.
Richard Donner
Richard Donald Schwartzberg, known as Richard Donner, was an American film director and producer, born on April 24, 1930 in New York and died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles. After directing the horror classic The Omen, he rose to fame in 1978 with Superman, the film being one of the biggest hits in cinema history and helping to establish the superhero film genre. In addition, Richard Donner revived the taste for action buddy movies, with the Lethal Weapon film series he directed. He has also produced numerous films by other directors, via the production company The Donners' Company set up with his wife Lauren Shuler Donner. He also produced the TV series Tales from the Crypt.
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