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After killing
his family and everyone else around him,
Donald set off to Harvard to study and is now junior
president at a multi-billion dollar corporation. He
has a lovely wife who's pregnant with his child and
he's forgotten all about his dark past. One day, a
horrible thing happens to Donald, unleashing all the
dark forces within him once again - and this time he's
got an entourage.
In case you didn't know, 666: The Beast is the Asylum's
sequel to their Omen rip-off "666: The Child", which
turned out to be surprisingly decent. This also led to
it becoming a huge success on DVD and I guess that's
why The Asylum has decided to make a sequel to it,
something which they do very rarely. Unfortunately,
666: The Beast is, much like the sequels to the original
Omen flick, a dull and uneventful movie with less horror
and more religious mumbo-jumbo. This had none of the
over-the-top gore that the first movie had, nor does
it have an exciting plot. Seriously, a balding junior
president killing people? Not that exciting!
The movie revolves around Donald, who we all remember
as the devil child from the first movie. He's all
grown up now and has a beautiful wife who's pregnant
and he's forgotten all about his dark past. He's just
gotten a huge promotion at his job and it seems as if
things are really looking up for Donald. That is until
one day when he accidentally ends up killing a man
which unleashes all of the dark forces within him.
And this time he's not just satisfied with killing
some family members, this time he plans to take over
the world. The only problem is, his wife is pregnant
with the son of god - and in order for Donald to be
able to take over the world, he has to kill his child.
Yeah, what's there to say? 666: The Beast is an awful
horror flick and probably one of the worst Asylum
productions to date (no, it's not quite as bad as
Supergator, I'll give it that). However, you can tell
that the first movie was a big success as this is
technically the most professional-looking Asylum
production that I've seen. In the acting department,
things are, as usual, a mixed bag where the main
actors are decent and the supporting actors are down
right crap. Some of the people that only get a line
or two have trouble delivering their few lines in a
believable way and it really ruins more than you'd think.
Ultimately, I wouldn't recommend 666: The Beast even if
you did like the first movie (I know that I kind of
did). It resembles The Omen 3 a lot and that's not a
good thing so unless you're dying to find out what
happened to Donald after the first movie - I'd avoid
this much like I'd avoid most Asylum productions.
Some stigmata action, nothing huge.
Tacky score which sounded surprisingly cheap.
Not even comparable to the first movie and I doubt that
many people will be able to understand that this is in
fact a sequel to "666: The Child". I know I didn't
until I started watching the movie. It's not nearly
as gory or entertaining as the first flick so don't
waste your time with this junk.
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