Otto
January 3, 2005, 5:19pm
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BrainGlutton:
Adrian Woodhouse: Introduced at the very end of Ira Levin’s 1967 novel Rosemary’s Baby and of Roman Polanski’s 1968 film of the same title. In the book, he has horns and a tail. In the movie, his only unusual physical feature is his glowing slit-pupilled eyes. These eyes seem to have turned normal by the time of the 1976 made-for-TV movie Look What’s Happened to Rosemary’s Baby (generally loathed, and as Levin was not directly involved in the project he might claim it was non-canonical.) Levin wrote a sequel, Son of Rosemary (Onyx Books 1998) which I haven’t read, but I read a review – Adrian becomes a kind of religious leader. How his character development is presented (and whether he still has those funny eyes), I don’t know.
IIRC he could control the look of his eyes for a limited time so that they looked normal. The book was very bad.
Otto
January 3, 2005, 5:20pm
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Oh, and to nitpick:
We never see the child in the movie so we don’t know if there are any other unusual physical features.
Of course, but since part of the atmosphere of The Omen is created by Biblical scholarship and rummaging around in old texts, I think it might have made a slightly better movie if Damien’s birthmark had been in the shape of the Greek (digamma kappa kappa) or Roman (DCLXVI) numerals for “666”. More authentic, you know?