Everything That Dies, Some Day Comes Back

Although having recently watched 'The Exorcist' I thought why not give this film (made a couple of years later in a similar vein) a go? It turns out to be a competently made piece of tosh but not especially memorable. Gregory Peck is Thorn, a wealthy US diplomat who hopes to be US President one day.  We are introduced to him in a Rome hospital, making a fateful decision - to go along with a Catholic priest's suggestion to replace his dead new-born son with another baby born at the same time.  And not to tell his wife Kathy (Lee Remick).  And to name the boy Damien. (At the start of the film, there is a caption telling us the time and date: 6am on 6 June - I totally failed to clock the significance of this). We fast forward 5 years, with the Thorn family ensconced in London, Thorn now being US ambassador to the UK. At Damien's birthday party his nanny commits suicide in spectacular fashion.  What drives her to this is never explained but it provides an opportunit...