Movie Review: Damien, Omen II

I rented "The Omen" a few months ago off Netflix, and it was so creepy-good.  I wouldn't watch it past sundown because my Catholic fear would have gone too haywire if it was dark out, because that's Satan o'clock.  If you haven't ever read the trivia regarding all the weird, spooky things that happened during filming, you should definitely read the trivia regarding all the weird, spooky things that happened during filming.

After watching it, I immediately went to add Omens II and III to my queue, and was ever so sad to see that they weren't available.  But I was dorking around on my new digital cable TV, and happened upon a button on my remote that said "On Demand" and I have about 100 free on-demand movies I can watch literally on demand whenever I want, and I was so so so excited to see that Omen II was on the list!

Impressions:

• It amuses me endlessly to see the fashions of teenagers in the 70s, and see how seamlessly they would be able to walk the streets of today.
• Okay.  Fact check.  Damien's father (Gregory Peck) in the first one was an American ambassador in Europe, right?  I can't remember if he had an accent or not...but I vaguely remember that baby Damien did have a British accent.  But Damien was only five (or six?) in the first one, and killed his parents.  In the beginning of the second one we learn that he was sent to live with his father's American brother, IN America.  And the second movie takes place when Damien is twelve (or thirteen?).  Yet...Damien has a British accent.  If he had been living in America from ages 5-12, wouldn't his accent have faded?
• If you were born of a jackal, wouldn't you have fur?  Or was the jackal just a surrogate womb?  Or am I not giving Satan enough credit here for his various options for outputting his spawn?
• Deaths were very inventive.  Especially the uncle one, totally didn't see that coming.
• It ended exactly the same, with Damien staring evilly into the camera.  But an evil five-year-old staring into the camera is infinitely creepier than an evil twelve-year-old.  Or maybe just all twelve-year-olds are evil, so it made less of an impression on me?

All in all, I give it 3 out of 5 stars.  Or pentagrams.  Whatever.