Omen IV: The Awakening

The kind of trash you find in the DVD section at your local dollar store. Camp B-movie all the way and laughable. I usually like those when the fun outweighs the seriousness but it's not the case here, it's just a bad mix of both and the instances of comedy rarely land. As a retelling of the original it feels different enough but it's nothing new. The child actress is decent, she's definitely creepy. The kills are a mixed bag, they're done in a PG-13 way with no blood (except one) and we rarely see the person actually die but some of the editing makes them good like the boulder kill followed by an egg being smashed. Bad music choices and timing, the *Looney Tunes*-ish score doesn't work in a moment of terror, sorry. I was kinda going along with the mystery for most of this but such an awful ending and the final twist was so predictable and uninspired. Worst in the franchise yet.

The previous movies were kinda bad. But in a good way and I thoroughly enjoyed them. There is absolutely nothing good about this one. The characters. The acting. The deaths don't even make sense. Of course paganism is misrepresented, like always. But the absolute worst of all is the music. Fluttering piccolo like you expect in a child's movie about magic. To me, The Omen is a trilogy. The last one rounded off the story well.