1989 Directed by Steve Miner
In 17th century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne captures an evil warlock, but the conjurer eludes death with supernatural help. Flung into the future, the warlock winds up in the 1980s and plans to bring about the end of the world. Redferne follows the enchanter into the modern era and continues his mission, but runs into trouble in such unfamiliar surroundings. With the help of a young woman, can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?
Julian Sands Lori Singer Richard E. Grant Mary Woronov Kevin O'Brien Richard Kuss Allan Miller Anna Levine David Carpenter Kay E. Kuter Ian Abercrombie Kenneth Danziger Robert Breeze Frank Renzulli Brandon Call Nancy Fox Juli Burkhart Rob Paulsen Peter Sherayko Gyl Roland Meta King Bill Dunnam Wendy Feiner Harry Johnson Art Smith
Warlock, o Demônio, Warlock 1
Featuring Julian Sands drinking the fat of an unbaptized child in order to fly which inspired a Canadian kid to stab his friend and eat his flesh. That means it's good.
Warlock is the tale of 17th-century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne (lolol) and his quest to take down evil warlock who evades him by using supernatural powers to cast himself into the 1980s in hopes to continue his plan TO BRING ON THE END OF THE WORLD. (Ya know, high stakes shit). Redferne follows the diabolical enchanter into the 80’s but runs into a tad bit of trouble in such unfamiliar ‘modern’ surroundings... hilarity ensues. He teams up with a young woman and together they attemp to destroy the dastardly evil doer!
It’s fun and the cast is solid (especially Julian Sands, obvi) but Warlock was never a big revisit for me, despite its semi heavy rotation on cable television back in…
"Warlock" ist ein B-Movie-Spaß aus den 1980igern und dreht sich um den Hexenjäger Giles Redferne (Richard E. Grant), der im Jahr 1691 einen Hexenmeister (Julian Sands) dingfest macht. Doch bevor die männliche Hexe hingerichtet werden kann, erschafft Satan ein Zeitportal, das es dem Hexenmeister (englisch: „Warlock“) ermöglicht, ins Los Angeles der 1980er Jahre zu flüchten. Redferne verfolgt ihn zwar, er kann aber nicht verhindern, dass der Hexenmeister Kassandra, eine Kellnerin die an Diabetes leidet, mit einem Fluch belegt und ihren Mitbewohner tötet. Redferne verfolgt den Hexenmeister quer durch L.A., während er versucht ein Hexenbuch zusammenzutragen und Kassandra vom Fluch, der sie täglich um 20 Jahre altern lässt, zu befreien.
Ich mochte "Warlock" eigentlich immer. Die Effekte sind gut und Julian…
An enjoyable little witchcraft flick which owes its mild success to Julian Sands and Richard E. Grant's stellar performances!
It's like digging up a time capsule buried back in the 80's! And it's filled with 80's cheesy goodness!
Final Word: I hope one day for the release of an uncut version featuring the Woman channeler ripping open her blouse to display the eye's of satan which have curiously replaced her nipples! To retrieve the eye's the warlock freezes her then proceeds to stomp on her chest til she shatters so he can retrieve the eyes!
They took this classic apeshit 80's schlock out because of some stupid screening where the screeners laughed at the eyeball nipples and were offended by the violence imposed on the woman to retrieve the eyes! In my eye's it was a no brainer they should have left the film in tact and instead removed the screeners!
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17th century - right before our witchy dude is to be burned at the stake (over a basket of kittens no less!), a twisty tornado cgi storm starts a brewin', tossing our soon to be charred body into the mystical, magical world of... 1989!! A witch hunter on his tail, a valley girl caught in the chaos, and something about a book that can un-create the entirety of existence... y'know, pretty low stakes stuff.
There's lots of fun fish-out-of-water scenarios as our beefy hunter tries to manage in the far flung future, while racing cross country…
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Film 9/46
Two flying things that kill you films (1/2)
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A seventeenth century warlock (Julian Sands) escapes execution in Boston the way Dorothy escapes Kansas in The Wizard of Oz: via a powerful storm that's actually a time-space portal courtesy of the Devil himself.
Wait, that's not right. (or is it?)
Our warlock makes a bumpy landing in the future when he ends up crashing through the window of Lori Singer's place in Los Angeles, and has unknowingly been followed through the time portal by the witchhunter who first captured him (Richard E. Grant). But soon the warlock is trying to assemble the scattered pages of an ancient spellbook that will grant him ultimate power over…
The scene where Warlock randomly starts flying around with that hilarious green screen background! Look how fast he goes! And how cool he looks! That was some high adrenaline nonsense coming through the television like a fountain of cheese whizz! Shlocky late 80s entertainment, the Warlock hits a lot of those comfort zones. Very much a product of the video store era of horror, it's an ambitious slab of low budget wizardry.
An ancient Warlock has crash landed right in the middle of modern America! Hellbent on finding the three pieces of the Devil's Bible he'll do anything to complete his mission. Biting off tongues, chopping fingers off, sucking peoples souls through their mouths you name it! CRASH! What was…
Surprisingly dope. Valley girls, demonic possession, Mary Woronov being a freak, posh talking dude with a ponytail makin' tongue omelettes and cutting up little boys to achieve the ability to fly. It's got that great Steve Miner pace and direction and it's basically a Black Magic Terminator movie in structure. Fun!
Let me just say up front that my approach to rating movies on Letterboxd is to relinquish any pretence of objectivity, because personally I find the whole idea of objectively evaluating art to be utter bullshit - which is what makes art prizes and things like the Oscars so ridiculous. My rating is always down to how much I enjoyed a movie on that viewing - it's always as much about me as it is about the movie.
So, I'm aware Warlock is not a very finely crafted piece of cinema. It has flaws by the bucket load. But it was a Sunday night, and I had a blinding flash of inspiration that what I needed to vanquish the Sunday…
"Witches loathe salt."
"Don't blame 'em. Salt, sugar, sulphides... all that shit'll kill ya."
Straight outta Boston 17c, Julian Sands crashes through the window of a Los Angeles suburban rental in the year nineteen hundred and eighty-nine after a summoned elemental time-tornado frees him from a toe-binder application made by a court who've found him guilty of commerce with the devil. The next morning he pilfers the gay tenant's fancy ring by cutting off his finger, eats out his tongue and spits it into a frying pan, breaks bread with medium Mary Woronov and chews the fat with Father Lucifer through her by transforming her into a kind of 70s Freddie Mercury then rips out her eyes that they may…
Another popular rental title that passed me by at the time, having lumped it into the same category as Highlander, which I also saw relatively late.
Wish I had seen it sooner to be honest because it's quite good fun.
Julian Sands 17th century Warlock magics his way into the 1980s in search of missing pages from The Grand Grimoire, a book containing the true name of God, which if spoken backwards can undo all of creation.
Pursued through time by Richard E. Grant's unlikely witch hunter, (adopting a questionable Scottish accent) and accompanied by Lori Singers modern day foil who gets caught up in events.
Good talent behind the camera for this. Steve Miner directing a David Twohy screenplay,…
We'd like to find this guy before he makes an omelet out of somebody else's tongue.
A 17th century warlock and a witchhunter face off in 1988. Think Terminator from the past with Julian Sands, who makes an immediate impression as the evil witch. He's really into body parts. A finger, a tongue and a nice set of eyes, all within the first 20 minutes or so. He also turns a channeler into Satan himself. A creepy looking mother, I must say, and now the barefooted, blonde haired baddie has a mission; to undo creation.
Too bad it goes a little downhill once the cat and mouse game starts. One liners and other attempts at humor become forced and most of the…
