Tue - June 13, 2006

Omen Slow Shooting Gun 


I was just watching The Omen on DVD and at the end was reminded that this film has one of the first "slow shooting guns," as also found in Kill Bill. In The Omen, the slow shooting gun appears when the police break into the church when trying to find and stop Robert Thorne from killing Damien. Here, the slow shooting gun is meant to extenuate the sequence and add suspense: did Thorne kill Damien? Was he shot first? I suspect, however, that The Omen is not the first slow shooting gun movie. The research continues.  

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