Truly Dreadful Film

This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

How on earth does anyone make a sequel bearing the 'Omen' name and come up with something as chronically unscary as this? I've seen creepier and more suspenseful episodes of TJ Hooker than this cardboard cut-out wet weekend of a kids' TV movie. The incidental music is comical, sounding like it was lifted from a particularly jaunty episode of Harry Potter:The Cartoon (if that even exists). But how and why? This is supposed to be The Omen...At least try and make it vaguely chilling. Did anyone even know what they were making? Ho hum, too many pointless questions...The original remains an utterly badass slice of full-on 70s horror, and the first 2 sequels (although flawed) at least took it somewhere still worth watching, but Omen IV is right up there with Jaws 3 and Jason Goes To Hell on the bad sequel naughty step.

Damien Thorn is dead. Gene (Michael Woods) and Karen York (Faye Grant) adopt an orphan and name her Delia. Sister Yvonne at the orphanage is sure of the baby's damnation. She goes to Delia's baptism where disturbing things happen. Seven years later, Gene's star starts rising as a US Congressman. They hire new age nanny Jo Thueson. After more disturbing events, Karen hires private detective Earl Knight (Michael Lerner) to track down Delia's biological parents.Any sequel trying to continue the franchise after "The Final Conflict" is unlikely to succeed. This one does nothing other than copy from the original "The Omen" except with a girl. It even does another decapitation. It could work if the original doesn't exist. The problem is that it does exist and this is a bad homage. There are some moments of weak writing and bad cheesy music. There is nothing scary and no originality. At times, it's comical, both intentional and unintentional.

Faye Grant & Michael Woods play Karen and Gene York, two successful attorneys who adopt a baby girl named Delia. Years later, as sinister occurrences and mysterious deaths mount in Delia's path, the Yorks become concerned that something is not right with their daughter, especially Karen, who hires a private investigator to uncover the truth, though they'll come to wish they hadn't...The epitome of the pointless, needless, unnecessary, and ineffectual sequel, this film is truly awful, even worse than Part III, which was bad enough. Plot is identical to the first, only this one is inept and unintentionally funny(the Michael Lerner detective seems lifted from a comedy, which the choral music around him indicates!) Only watched it because it was included in the DVD set. This stinker is best ignored.

I had seen the first three OMEN movies before, but I put off seeing the fourth entry for years because I heard how bad it was. When I got a chance to watch it for a buck, I decided to give it a look. I definitely overpaid to see this movie.It goes wrong right from the beginning, which ignores what happened in the final few seconds of the third OMEN movie. It quickly settles into being basically a rehash of the first movie, though with a sprinkle of ROSEMARY'S BABY added into the stew. There is plenty of awkward dialogue, things happening that NO ONE thinks about or discusses with others, and it travels at such an unbelievably quick pace that you won't have a chance to catch your breath. But even if the story had been more original, it probably would have still sinked because this was a made-for-TV movie. It looks pretty cheap and threadbare at times, with murky photography and depressing location shooting in Canada during the winter. (Actually, although the story spans several years, it's ALWAYS winter in every scene.) And because this was made for TV, the horror and bloodletting never goes beyond a PG level.Even if you happen to be a big fan of the first three movies, you would be better off avoiding this clumsy recycling.