The little naked Asian kid from “”The Grudge,”” free-ballin’ it around Japan, is pretty scary. The little gothic schoolgirl strapped to a cot in “”Silent Hill”” is too. Hell, even the little Welch’s Grape Juice girl gives me the creeps. Unfortunately, Damien (Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) from “”The Omen”” absolutely does not.
Sure, he’s supposed to look normal – being the devil in disguise and all – but there has to be a better path to hell than with a permanent pouty face: It’s as if the director stuffed Seamus’ cheeks with jawbreakers and told him to pretend he was eating broccoli. On top of that, Damien never speaks a single line. Is it not universally known that the little devils are the ones who never shut up?
Even “”Apocalypto”” one-upped little Seamus last year, rubbing some jungle-plague sores on a second-rate “”Ring”” clone. While our little tike scooted around the backyard and played with subtle 666-marked toys all day, the rest of 2006’s demonic children were hard at work earning their child-labor bucks.