'Walking Dead' alum wants you to root for evil spawn 'Damien'
You never know how kids will turn out. Damien Thorn, the creepy brat from the 1976 horror movie The Omen, grows up to become an empathetic war photographer in Damien, premiering 10 p.m. Monday on A&E.
You never know how kids will turn out.
Damien Thorn, the creepy brat from the 1976 horror movie The Omen, grows up to become an empathetic war photographer in Damien, premiering 10 p.m. Monday on A&E.
Try not to stress about the math - Bradley James is playing a 30-year-old, not the fortysomething the child adopted by Gregory Peck and Lee Remick would be - and forget those Omen sequels.
Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead), who developed the series, wants you to root for his Damien, who's not thrilled when people around him start dying and others start telling him he's the Antichrist. Barbara Hershey plays the powerful Ann Rutledge, whose job it is to get Damien, who seems to have little memory of his corpse-strewn childhood, to man up and get to work on the Apocalypse.
Standing on the side of his better angels is Damien's best friend, Amani Golkar (Omid Abtahi, Better Call Saul), who should probably be worried, given how quickly bodies pile up in the vicinity of his buddy.
James' Damien is appealing enough to make fighting his destiny at least as interesting as fulfilling it, though I'm not sure how patient horror fans will be with Mazzara's reluctant Antichrist.
Satan enthusiasts can get a double dose on Monday, with Fox's crime-solving Lucifer airing at 9. A&E's lead-in for Damien will be the further adventures of young Norman Bates (Freddie Highmore), another guy with a troubling future, in the Season 4 premiere of Bates Motel.
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