Children are horrifying. Always have been, always will be. Especially when they are the literal spawn of Satan.Richard Thorn (Gregory Peck), the U.S. Ambassador to Italy is devastated when he is told that his son died stillborn and is therefore very suggestible to the idea of immediately adopting another child whose mother died in childbirth. For a few years, everything seems great. Thorn gets a dream posting as Ambassador to Great Britain, his wife (Lee Remick) is happy, and Damien (Harvey Stephens) is a cute, normal little boy. Then the nanny (Holly Palance) kills herself at Damien's fifth birthday party and things just go downhill from there. Thorn slowly becomes convinced that there is something very wrong with Damien but does he have enough time to stop it?
This is an absolute classic and you should definitely watch it. Unfortunately, it's only streaming on AMC right now and the remake is on Starz. So if you have cable, you've got a better chance of catching it.
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