More of this and The Awakening might have been a bit of fun.

Given all that has to go into making an eclipse, I’m guessing the answer to that is none. “How many spontaneous eclipses have you seen in your life?” one of the nuns asks. I mean, there’s a point at the beginning of the movie, when Delia is born, when a “spontaneous eclipse” is reported.

She’s also, by way of some gynecological legerdemain, the mother of Satan’s great-grandson. Technically I guess she’s Satan’s granddaughter, if that means anything. The only slight twist is that it’s an evil little girl we’re talking about here, named Delia. Instead, The Awakening is just the story of an adopted baby who turns out to be not a child of the devil but of Damien Thorn, a cursory tie-in to the previous films that is only revealed in the final ten minutes, and which has no role to play in the plot. By way of its title this is the fourth entry in the Omen franchise, though the title is almost the only connection it has to the preceding trilogy, which had wrapped up ten years previously.

Omen iv: the awakening