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 Donner was an American film director, producer, and actor. After directing the horror classic The Omen, he rose to fame in 1978 with Superman, one of the biggest hits in cinema history that helped establish the superhero film genre in Hollywood. In addition, he revived the taste for 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. It is most successful for producing the Free Willy and X-Men film franchises. He also produced the TV series Tales from the Crypt.
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