To be fair, I could probably rate this as "Good" instead of just "Fair". However, once again, I'm about 45 years late to the dance and never saw this when it first came out, so - by today's standards - I can only consider it "kinda sorta okay". It's not "scary" by any stretch (remember, I'm grading this by 2022 standards) but it _does_ have at least one decent kill scene in it. The story was simply implausible by any stretch of the imagination, and especially for someone with a strong background and knowledge of Scripture. Did it make for good theater? Sure…but so did _The Fly_ and _The Thing_ and a host of other completely implausible storylines. It would have been considerably better, IMO, had they clarified the whole backstory of Damien; I still have no idea who his mother was or how she came to be pregnant with "the child of the Devil". All we know (from what the movie tells us) is that Damien is just that: "the child of Satan". No explanation, no story, nothing about him except his mother was "an apostate of hell". (For the record, that was a gross misuse of the word _apostate_; someone should have done their homework. But I digress…) As far as what a couple of the other reviews have mentioned, however, it **IS** best served when watched/observed by 1970's standards...not by today's. And by 1970's standards, I can see how and why this movie was such a polarizing film. Although to the learned Bible scholar, the idea is ludicrous, the execution of the story (even minus a solid backstory) was good, the soundtrack was excellent, the "fear factor" was there (probably much more back in the day) to make this a good "creepy" movie, and yes, the conclusion was quite unique. If you can handle watching "old" movies and, like me, you never saw this in its prime, I would say it's worth a watch.

https://youtu.be/SDZmFNpPmF4