Back In The Day: Warlock '89

Binge-Watchers Podcast

Tonight’s movie is a hidden gem among horror movie rentals! WARLOCK 1989.

We make some jokes about an accident during last week’s live stream before discussing this week’s Home Video Headlines:

• Godzilla Versus King, our issues with Godzilla being the villain again
• A non-spoiler mini-review of PG: Psycho Goreman
• Alien Nation reboot potentially becoming a Disney Plus mini-series
• Whether or not we think you should be able to buy and sell video on demand codes

Tonight’s movie is a hidden gem among horror movie rentals. I think people know of it, but are still questioning whether or not to watch it. This movie has a great director, great actors, and a great premise.

In 17th-century New England, witch hunter Giles Redferne (Richard E. Grant) captures an evil warlock (Julian Sands), 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 (Lori Singer), can Redferne finally defeat the warlock?

Directed by Steve Miner. He did Friday the 13th Part 2, Part 3, House, Forever Young, My Father The Hero, Halloween H20, and Lake Placid. He looked at the script and recognized the main characters being the warlock and the witch hunter were fresh off the boat from England in colonial America, so he had the good sense to get some amazing British actors.

Julian Sands sat on the script for a while assuming it was run of the mill slasher material, and then he understood there was a dark sense of humor running through the tone of the story.

Richard Grant supposedly comes in for the Warlock part and then gets the chance to play the hero named Giles Redferne.

Highlights from our first impressions include:

• “Julian Sands steals the show.”
• “Not as good as I remember.”
• “This movie is alive. Big kick out of it.”
• “Scary, if you believe in good and evil.”

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Our favorite bits from Warlock include the tongue biting scene, the action with the weather vane, and the methodology of how the black magic and its deterrents work in this film.

Don’t forget to visit us on social, drop us an email, or reach out with a movie review request, but tune in next week as we talk about THE BAD ROMANCES IN WARLOCK 2. We’re switching gears and going into a month filled with bad romances, bromances, and bad friendships. Lates!!!

Music: Schoolyard Swing by Cast of Characters

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