The Omen echoes throughout Simon Wincer’s camp but sporadically affecting 1980 re-imagining of Rasputin. Here the Mad Monk has been replaced by Robert Powell’s mysterious glam-rock psychic healer, who cures the leukaemia-stricken son of venal senator David Hemmings and uses magic to expose the senator’s crimes. It’s clunky and dated, but Powell’s typically messianic performance smoothes over the cracks.
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