The Final Conflict (1981)

User Rating:

5.3/10   

Director:

Graham Baker

Writers:

David Seltzer (characters)
Andrew Birkin (written by)

Release Date:

20 March 1981 (USA)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

The power of evil is no longer in the hands of a child.

Plot:

The now adult Antichrist plots to eliminate his future divine opponent while a cabal of monks plot to stop him.

Plot Keywords:

Monk | Dagger | Angel | Antichrist | Second Coming

Cast

Sam Neill	...	Damien Thorn
Rossano Brazzi	...	DeCarlo
Don Gordon	...	Dean
Lisa Harrow	...	Kate Reynolds
Barnaby Holm	...	Peter
Mason Adams	...	President
Robert Arden	...	American Ambassador
Leueen Willoughby	...	Barbara
Marc Boyle	...	Brother Benito
Milos Kirek	...	Brother Martin
Tommy Duggan	...	Brother Mattius
Louis Mahoney	...	Brother Paulo
Richard Oldfield	...	Brother Simeon
Tony Vogel	...	Brother Antonio
Arwen Holm	...	Carol

Also Known As:

Omen III: The Final Conflict
The Ill Omen (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

108 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Canada:14A (Ontario) | South Korea:18 | Australia:R | Finland:K-18 | France:-12 | Norway:18 | Singapore:M18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Eagle River, Wisconsin, USA

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Richard Donner had once considered directing the film, but was involved with legal problems involving the Salkind brothers stemming from Superman II (1980).

Goofs:

Plot holes: Damien states, while talking to The President, that in two years from that time it will be 1984, making it 1982. If that is the case, than The Omen (1976) should be set in the 1950s, not 1976, as it obviously is. This could be due to the fact that at the time the Producers and the studio hadn't anticipated the sequels and the associated time-line.

Quotes:

Kate Reynolds: And who is this... Antichrist?
DeCarlo: The American Ambassador, Damien Thorn.
Kate Reynolds: [laughs] That's ridiculous. I know Damien Thorn.
DeCarlo: You know Thorn the man... but do you know his soul?

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Empire of the Censors (1995) (TV)

Killer Monks !

Wow what a great idea for a movie getting a bunch of tooled up monks to bump off the anti-christ , you could start a whole franchise on that idea . Alas this idea is relegated to a mere subplot . There`s also a subplot of the anti-christ recruiting an elite band of killer boy scouts and nannies which is almost as clever as the killer monk hit team but this too is underdeveloped .

Apart from these two so crazy it borders on genius subplots there`s no good reason to watch this film which is mediocre for the most part and has one of the most silly endings I`ve seen in a film