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...DAMIEN- OMEN II Directed by Don Taylor Screenplay by Stanley Mann and Michael Hodges...
...Damien, the devil's spawn of The Omen, which was such a large success two summers ago, is alive and well and living in Chicago in this sequel. Unfortunately, the movie is not well at all and cannot even be said to be alive. One expects little enough from sequels, but even that bare minimum is not attained by this clunker...
...Omen is a soulless, gutless endeavor, an ultra-gory, workmanlike tale about the arrival of the anti-Christ, one Damien. (Every movie about the devil must have its "Damien"). Every ten minutes someone gets impaled, chucked out a window, or decapitated, the latter by a plate-glass window in a scene lingered over by the cameraman as though he were some kind of vampire. One moment of imagination: the prowl of a vicious wolf-dog from hell whose breathing is synchronized with one of Jerry Goldsmith's Latin chants. Gregory Peck is well-meaning, but as animated as a potted...
...royal government provided no housing materials and no food beyond a few rangy cattle. Patients had to tote water from a spring a mile away. The arrival of Father Joseph Damien de Veuster changed all that. He inspired and encouraged the colonists to build better houses and a primitive hospital on the sheltered side of the peninsula and to install a mile-long water line. How and where or when Damien contracted leprosy, which caused his death in 1889, can never be known. The disease can have an incubation period of ten or more years and the priest might have...
Ironically, Damien's fame and the cause of his death have stood in the way of public awareness that for most ethnic groups, leprosy is one of the least contagious of all diseases. Koch estimates that 90%, perhaps even as many as 99% of Caucasians could not catch leprosy if they tried-not even by living in marital contact with a patient for many years...