10 Horror Remakes So Bad They Never Got A Sequel

You can say this much for this remake of Richard Donner’s 1976 movie: it had a great gimmick. Released on June 6th 2006, The Omen should’ve been the Citizen Kane of Creepy Kids films. It wasn’t.

Part of the problem was the fact that by this time, audiences had seen creepy kids in everything from The Sixth Sense to Scary Movie 4 and they’d had their fill of them, thank you very much. The rest was due to the fact that even for a remake from the future director of A Good Day To Die Hard, The Omen is a whole lot of blah.

Set in London but shot (tellingly) in the Czech Republic, this is less a revamp than a copy that lands with a thud whenever it attempts to be dramatic. There are scattered unintentional laughs to be had whenever young Damien attempts a 1000-yard stare (love that haircut, too) but otherwise it’s just a trawl through familiar material.

Donner’s movie was the first instalment of a trilogy, but this movie was so poorly received it didn’t even merit a DVD sequel starring David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair. Which is saying something.