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不是因为对片子一开场的华丽宗教背景的好奇，"And the angel blew the sixth trumpet.." ...
一般很少会把明知是有一点恐怖嫌疑的片子看完。OK，看完以后，还是觉得，片头那段胃口吊的最好。

转网上的内容介绍：
A young American diplomat in Rome is told his baby boy has not survived, but he can have a replacement, whose mother died at the same moment. The priest who arranges the swap says "There is no family". Meanwhile, the pope is given a Powerpoint presentation showing elements of the book of Revelation are coming to pass - a star-like comet, torture in Abu Graib, the South East Asian Tsunami. "And the angel blew the sixth trumpet.." Opera singers screech, lightning flashes. Desperate for a child, Robert Thorn keep's the boy's identity secret from his wife.

A remarkable but grizzly accident quickly dispatches his boss, and he's the US Ambassador to London...living in a gothic mansion, with a son who might be the Anti-Christ.

Very few changes have been made to David Setzler's script thirty years on from the original. Liev Schreiber (the Manchurian Candidate) and Julia Stiles (the daughter in Traffic) are very young to play a couple on their last chance to have a child. It suggests they're pitching at an audience that never saw the first one, or the dire sequels that diluted its impact.

Gus Van Sant remade Psycho shot for shot almost ten years ago, and it bombed. Director John Moore has already done a remake, Flight of the Phoenix, but this one's even more faithful to its source material. Low rumbles warn of danger, fast-cut dream sequences chill the audience, and Damien has the right mix of cuteness and menace. Nasty shocks are interspersed with a detective story as the Ambassador and a papparazzo (David Thewlis) who's taken some uncanny photos try to track down the boy's real mother.

Two things make it worth watching. First is the inspired casting of Mia Farrow as Mrs Baylock, who takes over after the first nanny hangs herself at Damien's fifth birthday party. The star of Rosemary's Baby (still the scariest movie I've seen) relishes the role, her face a mask of murderous devotion.

The second is that even though you know what's coming, it's still freaky.
Farrow feeds Damien a plate of strawberries, he then rides a scooter around
the creaking wooden corridors, while his mother waters the hanging pot plants, teetering on a stool, three stories up. All very unlikely but beautifully shot and edited, and unlike the Exorcist, nothing happens that's obviously supernatural. That's what I liked about the original too, but this one does a good job of drawing you in.

这是童年的阴影。

根据当时怕的那个程度，我是打死也不会再看第二遍了。

不对，不是怕，是压抑。
能让一个10岁的小娃压抑的是个什么电影？
是魔鬼的电影。

我到现在都还能记得那几个镜头。
托着玻璃的叉车，刹车失灵，端了记者的头。
说出真相的牧师，进不了教堂的门，被雷劈倒的十字架贯穿他的身体。
小娃在家里二楼走道骑着小三轮车来来往往。

所以我不喜欢小孩嘛。
轻则断送前程。
重则直接送命。

我强烈推荐这部电影。
热切盼望大家一起跟我压抑。