Daily Dialogue — June 12, 2014

“Look at me, Damien! It’s all for you.”

The Omen (1976), written by David Seltzer

The Daily Dialogue theme for this week: Birthday. Today’s suggestion by Daniel Cossu.

Trivia: Having changed its title from “The Antichrist” to “The Birthmark,” the film seemed to fall victim to a sinister curse. Star Gregory Peck and screenwriter David Seltzer took separate planes to the UK…yet BOTH planes were struck by lightning. While producer Harvey Bernhard was in Rome, lightning just missed him. Rottweilers hired for the film attacked their trainers. A hotel at which director Richard Donner was staying got bombed by the IRA; he was also struck by a car. After Peck canceled another flight, to Israel, the plane he would have chartered crashed…killing all on board. On day one of the shoot, several principal members of the crew survived a head-on car crash. The jinx appeared to persist well into post-production… when special effects artist John Richardson was injured and his girlfriend beheaded in an accident on the set of A Bridge Too Far (1977).

Dialogue On Dialogue: That’s what I call a birthday present… for a horror movie!

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