Movie 666

It’s Actually 616

If you haven’t already heard the news, you must still be living in the dark ages and burning witches at the stake… 666 is not actually the real number of the beast! Yes, horror fans and metal heads, the real number is apparently 616, according to experts who have analyzed a text fragment of the oldest surviving copy of the New Testament dating from the Third Century; which means all those beloved 666 movies are going to need to be refilmed and retitled. Come to think of it, the name of this website is going to need to change too. Bloody hell!

Top Six 666 Movies

1. Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
   The ultimate Devil-baby movie and simply one of the best horror movies of all time. Movie 666 was told by a long-timer professional horror screenwriter recently that most younger audiences have never seen this movie which is frankly shocking. So if that description fits you, horror fan, get out there and enjoy this classic today! Get it.
2. The Omen (1976)
   The movie that put 666 on the map (and the head). Frankly, Movie 666 doesn’t feel like the Omen is a particularly good movie but cannot argue with how influential this movie is. The timid remake which appeared on June 6, 2006 was a bit of a letdown, following in the footsteps of the original when it could have taken the opportunity to let loose (especially those wild eyed baboons when little Damien visits the zoo).
3. Lucifer Rising (1972)
   Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger’s hypnotising, psychedelic love song to Lucifer who is not the beastly creature with tail and horns but the primal forces of nature as represented by an Egyptian god.
4. Natural Born Killers (1994)
   The movie that removed 666 from the map. Actually, Route 666 through the four corners region of the U.S. was officially renamed a year before
   Natural Born Killers arrived in a cinematic wave of bloodshed. Since Natural Born Killers, there have been several other 666 “road movies,” hearkening a strange subgenre having little to nothing to do with the more popular devil baby films.
5. End of Days (1999)
   666 gets flipped to 999 just in time for Y2K and only one man can juggle the math back to normal: Arnold.
6. Chambre 666 (1982)
   “The cinema, is it a language about to get lost, an art about to die?” In 1982, Wim Wenders convinced Steven Spielberg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Werner Herzog, Monte Hellman and other filmmakers to lock themselves in a room with a camera and ponder the future of cinema. Were the predictions of these filmmakers — delivered more than a decade before the popularization of the internet and digital technology — visionary or shortsighted? If you somehow manage to find a copy of this obscure, out-of-print “apocalypse” movie, you can find out!

New 666 Movies

Never you mind that 666 was debunked and 616 is now all the rage, filmmakers are still using the good old fashioned devil’s triad to evoke images of evil…

• Highway 191 (2008)
  Two teens find out what horror fans could have told them from the start — it takes more than renaming a highway to get rid of its evil — in this case, changing Highway 666 to 191 (something the Four Corner states have managed to accomplish beginning with Arizona in 1992).
• By the Devil’s Hands (2008)
  The 666 Killer seeks to kill 6 victims over 6 days in 6 different ways and is now looking for victim number 6. Hey, doesn’t that make 6666?

Cult and Classic 666 Movies

• Prince of Darkness
  Horror, sci-fi, and university interns join forces to give a unique vision of mankind’s final moments
• The Exorcist (1973)
  Not explicitly a 666 movie, but with all the evil spirit of one
• The Devil’s Advocate (1997)
  Suprisingly good, deftly handled Luciferian end times thriller
• The Machinist (2004)
  Another appearance by Route 666
• Tribulation (1999)
  In the future, those who don’t have the 666 mark on their right hand will die.
• Stay Tuned (1992)
  Featuring 666 channels of the Cable Television World of Hell
• The Scarlet Letter (1995)
  Masachussetts Bay Colony. 1666. A connection?
• Officer 666 (1916)
  An early Australian silent feature about a cop who loans his uniform to a perfect stranger and hijinks ensue. Adapted from the stage and later remade in 1920. Demonic in title only.
• Witches Sabbath (2005)
  A coven of witches, posing as strippers, seeks to behead 666 choice victims.
• The Church (1989)
  aka La Chiesa, Cathedral of Demons, Demon Cathedral, Demons 3, In the Land of the Demons
  666 references and imagery abound in this intriguing, colorful, yet slightly ponderous movie about demons released from underneath a gothic cathedral. Features a young Asia Argento in a script co-written by her father. Copies of this worthwhile film can sometimes be found in grocery store bargain bins!

• The Late Great Planet Earth (1979)
• 666: The Child (2006)
• 666: The Demon Child (2004)
• Angel Heart (1987)
• The Apocalypse (2007)
• Damien: Omen II (1978)
• Little Nicky (2000)
• The Prophesy (1995)
• The Cell (2000)
• Bless the Child (2000)
• Fallen (1998)
• Tribulation (2000)
• Witchcraft 666 (1994)
• Children of the Corn: 666 (1995)
• Studio 666 (2005)
• Mark of the Devil 666 (1995)
• The Seventh Sign (1998)
• 666 Demon Child (2004)
• The Omen (2006)
• 666: The Beast (2007)
• Road 666: Deathlands Movie
• Doomsday: 2012
• Studio 666 (2005)
• Route 666 (2001)
• Mark of the Devil 666: The Moralist (1995)
• The Doom Generation (1995)
• The Ninth Gate (1999)
• White Noise II: The Light (2007)
• Revelation (1999)
• SLC Punk! (1998)

Compiled and updated by Demon.

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