Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play US Ambassador Robert Thorn (Gregory Peck) is persuaded to substitute a newborn baby whose mother has died in childbirth for his own stillborn son By the age of five the child Damien seems to be exerting a malevolent influence on the Thorn household suffering a violent fit when he is taken to church & causing his nanny to hang herself Thorn searches for an answer to his son&s behaviour & meets maverick priest Father Brennan (Patrick Troughton) who tries to convince him that Damien is in fact the Antichrist & must be stopped at all costs The Ambassador at first dismisses this as the crazy rantings of a religious maniac but subsequent events suggest that maybe the priest had a point