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An OMEN Blu-ray box set is scheduled for September 9. According to Esplatter.com, this represents the ”first horror movie box set on Blu-ray.” The four-disc set will include the 1976 verison of THE OMEN, DAMEIN: THE OMEN II, THE FINAL CONFLICT, and the 2006 remake of THE OMEN. Not included is the 1990 TV movie THE OMEN IV: THE AWAKENING, which is available as part of the six-disc “Complete Omen Collection” DVD set. The first three films will be authored in BD-J with AVC (MPEG 4) compression on dual-layer 50GB discs presented in widescreen (2.35:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio plus English, Spanish, Korean, Mandarin & Cantonese subtitles The 2006 OMEN will be authored in MPEG2 compression on a single-layer 25GB disc presented in widescreen (1.85:1 aspect ratio) with English 5.1 DTS HD Lossless Audio and Spanish/French 5.1 Dolby Surround with English/Spanish subtitles only.

Many of the Blu-ray bonus features will be ported over from the DVD, but there will be some new Blu-ra exclusives, too. Check out these bonus features below the fold.

THE OMEN

• Blu-Ray Exclusive – Richard Donner on The Omen interview mini-feature
• Blu-Ray Exclusive – The Omen Revelations BonusView with Trivia Track
• Blu-Ray Exclusive – Commentary track by film historians Lem Dobbs, Nick Redman and Jeff Bond
• Blu-Ray Exclusive – Isolated score track (Dolby Surround 5.1 audio)
• Introduction by director Richard Donner
• Commentary track by director Richard Donner and editor Stuart Baird
• Commentary track by director Richard Donner and screenwriter Brian Helgeland
• “Dog Attack” Deleted Scene with optional Commentary track by director Richard Donner and screenwriter Brian Helgeland
• 666: The Omen Revealed mini-feature
• The Omen Legacy mini-feature
• Curse or Coincidence? mini-feature
• An Appreciation: Wes Craven On The Omen mini-feature
• Jerry Goldsmith on The Omen Score mini-feature
• Screenwriters Notebook mini-feature
• Theatrical trailer
• Still gallery

DAMIEN: THE OMEN II

• Commentary track by producer Harvey Bernhard
• Theatrical trailer

THE OMEN III: THE FINAL CONFLICT¹

• Commentary track by director Graham Baker
• Theatrical trailer

THE OMEN (2006)

• Blu-Ray Exclusive – The Devil’s Footnotes Trivia Track
• Commentary with director John Moore, producer Glen Williamson and editor Dan Zimmerman
• Revelations 666 mini-feature
• Abbey Road Sessions mini-feature
• Extended scenes

RELATED ARTICLES:

• Review: The Omen (1976)
• Review: Damien – The Omen II
• Review: The Final Conflict
• Review: The Omen (2006)

FOOTNOTES:

1. I just want to say I’m said to see that this film has fallen prey to the STAR WARS syndrome, in which a film is retroactively retitled to make it fit in numerically with the rest of the series.