Damien, apparently not living with the President as the end of The Omen implied, has been adopted by his uncle (William Holden) who runs the powerful Thorn corporation. Like in the past, those who get in Damien’s way die and things will only get worse when he learns who he is.
Sequels—so many ways to fail. The Omen II chooses the repeat method. The same things happen as in the first, but without the originality, impact, or mystery. While The Omen unfolded before Robert Thorn, a sympathetic character that allowed the viewer to enter the film’s world, the story of The Omen II is laid out at the beginning without any character to follow. Thoughts of the coming apocalypse are forgotten and fierce dogs have been replaced by crows (apparently, an adult human female cannot overpower a crow). It might have been interesting to see Damien struggling with the knowledge that he is the Antichrist, but we’ll never know as that is just one of many plot threads that were dropped. There is the suggestion that the Whore of Babylon could be pertinent, but that is dropped as well. With its simple plot, undeveloped characters, and meaningless murders, The Omen II flows more like a Slasher than a horror story based on Christian myth, and not an entertaining one.