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- 1 Oscar gewonnen
- 6 Gewinne & 9 Nominierungen insgesamt
Handlung
WUSSTEST DU SCHON:
- WissenswertesHarvey Stephens, as Damien, was largely chosen for this role from the way he attacked Richard Donner during auditions. Donner asked all the little boys to "come at him" as if they were attacking Katherine Thorn during the church wedding scene. Stephens screamed and clawed at Donner's face, and kicked him in the groin during his act. Donner whipped the kid off him, ordered the kid's blond hair dyed black and cast him as Damien.
- Patzer(at around 1h 26 mins) Toward the end of the film, Jennings says that the place name Megiddo derives from the term Armageddon. Actually, it is the other way around - "Armageddon" is a bastardization of "Har Megiddo", which, in Hebrew, means simply "mountain of Megiddo". According to Revelation 16:16, this would be the site of the last battle in history.
- Zitate
Young nanny: Look at me, Damien! It's all for you.
[she jumps off a roof, hanging herself]
- Crazy CreditsClosing credits epilogue: "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is 666."
Book of Revelation Chapter 13 Verse 18
- Alternative VersionenIn the Swedish version, the scene showing Jennings being decapitated has been cut by 11 seconds.
- VerbindungenFeatured in V.I.P.-Schaukel: Folge #6.3 (1976)
Ausgewählte Rezension
Rightfully tense and spooky thriller from director Richard Donner that grabs its audience and does not let go until the shocking finale. American Ambassador Gregory Peck has come up with an idea after his new-born son dies at birth: he decides to pass another child off to wife Lee Remick as their own. Life in England seems grand for a few years, but as the child becomes a toddler (in the form of the young Harvey Stephens) strange murders start to occur. The child is really the son of Satan, born of a goat, and his only goal is to grow up and take over the world for his unearthly father. As the truth slowly unfolds, the film twists into disturbing murders and highly unholy situations. Not a film for the faint of heart and certainly not a perfect film, but still one of the stronger films of the usually luke-warm genre. 4 stars out of 5.
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Details
- Erscheinungsdatum
- Herkunftsländer
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- La profecía
- Drehorte
- Guildford Cathedral, Guildford, Surrey, England, Vereinigtes Königreich(Where the wedding was being held)
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Box Office
- Budget
- 2.800.000 $ (geschätzt)
- Bruttoertrag in den USA und Kanada
- 60.922.980 $
- Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
- 4.273.886 $
- 27. Juni 1976
- Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
- 60.922.980 $
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