Best movie ever!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

This 1989 fantasy-horror film stars Julian Sands, Richard E. Grant and Lori Singer. This begins in the year 1691 where a warlock (Sands) awaits execution and is magically sent through time to the late 1980's along with a witch hunter, Redferne (Grant) on his trail. Singer (Footloose) plays waitress, Kassandra who helps Redferne stop the warlock from bringing evil to the world. This is an average flick that's sort of a mix of "Highlander" and "The Terminator" with a decent cast, good score & some neat effects. The film is also not scary, but it has supernatural and a bit of humorous elements. I'd still give it a try at least once.

How mechanically do you burn someone over a basket of live kittens? The best part of old English is the frequency they use "inclined"."Never was there a brute more deserving" is still a killer delivery.Terminator-esque... love the shattering neon sign and escaping noble gas.Lori Singer wearing the killer 80s outfits.Diabetic foreshadowing.His film really moves along.I love how the Warlock plops himself down and silently observes in a creepy yet disarming way.Lovely segue.The best part of witchcraft must be the literal-ness. No wasting time with riddles.Nice Witch compass dialog :) He sure spilled a lot of precious blood.After 2 incidents the cops don't stay around until she is gone?! He curses her just for fun. What a d@$% but a nice rhythm.Lovely driving lesson.The 12 Apostrophes! Nah. I don't need help :) "Men like us!" "You thither... Such as they are"... love the dialog. Extremely efficient.Barefoot Kenny Rodgers?! Who walks around a plane in bare feet?! He deserves to be cursed for that."Lest you favor throttlings to the ears and face..." ... still a tremendous line.That's a viable interest.Of course he cheated.Dog? Nice idea.Still greatly rewatchable.

Warlock (1989) *** (out of 4)An evil warlock (Julian Sands) from the 17th Century is about to be put to death when a Satanic storm saves him and sends him to the 20th Century. Also dragged along is a hunter (Richard E. Grant) who with the help of a young woman (Lori Singer) tries to track down and destroy the warlock before all of human kind is destroyed.I still remember when WARLOCK came out and even though I was a big fan of horror movies, for some reason I just never got around to watching it until now and I must admit that I'm really kicking myself for that. I really wasn't expecting too much from this film but it turned out to be quite good on many levels and it really did have a nice little story as well as some fun performances. Yes, the story itself is basically THE TERMINATOR but with a warlock but it was still a lot of fun.There are a lot of good things going on here but the majority of the success of the picture has to go to the performances. The three leads are a lot of fun together and there's no question that they help keep the viewer entertained in what's going on. Sands is simply marvelous as the warlock and that laid back, calm and collective approach just makes you feel as if you're really watching some sadistic warlock. Yes, I've never really met a warlock to know what one is like but Sands just makes you feel as if you're watching something real. The adventure of the story is brought to life thanks to the chemistry between Grant and Singer. The two of them work very well off one another and the three actors together really make the film work.Director Steve Miner also deserves a lot of credit because he keeps the film moving at a very nice pace. There's a lot of horror elements here but there's also some comedy as well as an adventure story and I thought the director handled it all quite well. The cinematography was very good as were the special effects. There are some horror special effects that work extremely well but there are also some great things done with the one female character growing in age over a short period of time.WARLOCK could have ran about ten-minutes shorter but at the same time there's very little to be said in a negative way. I was really shocked at how entertaining the film was and it's certainly a lot different than the slasher films that were all the craze during this era.

In a brief intro set in 1691 Boston we are introduced to two of the three main protagonists in the film, the Warlock himself (Julian Sands) and his captor (at the time) Redferne (Richard E Grant).This brief scene establishes that yep these two guys will be talking funny for the rest of the film – get used to it. (A couple examples "I'll search hither, you thither" and "Let's tarry not!") It also tries in vain to give credibility to the film, justifying some of the more silly stuff to come.With the costume budget already blown the Warlock escapes to 1988 via some magical portal or something, somehow dragging Redferne along with him to Los Angeles. Why not Boston? Why LA? Well that's where they make movies silly! The Warlock has been charged with the task of finding the three missing parts of the Devil's Bible which are conveniently all located in America. By Devil's Bible contains various nasty spells and secrets, and by re-combining the three parts the Warlock can learn the true name of God and as a result can un-make existence.This is bad for us, but apparently good for the Devil and the Warlock, who gets a promotion if he is successful, and will be recognised as the Devil's son.The first stop on the Warlock's round trip of evil finds him visiting "Kassandra with a K" (Lori Singer) and her gay flatmate.Kassandra is one of those cinematic reminders that hearkens to a time when every actress didn't actually have a tit job or major plastic surgery (sorry Lori, just the facts). After the Warlocks visits pausing only to suck the tongue out of the gay roommate and to put a spell on Kassandra that ages her 20 years every 24 hours off he goes. Of course Redferne shows up shortly afterwards – still rocking the 1600s togs – and using a witch-locating sat-nav device he sets off on the trail of the Warlock with Kassandra in tow desperate to get her 20 years back. (She wasn't that hot to begin with, it wasn't the 20 years that was holding her back.) The ensuing chase is pretty straightforward; a visit to Amish country alerts the Warlock to the pursuit, and then it's on to Boston for the finale which takes place in a graveyard.Richard E Grant does his best with a role that requires him to spout ludicrous dialogue in an earnest fashion, Kassandra is essentially supposed 'comic relief' and a counterpoint to the serious business (in theory anyway) going on around her.Julian Sands fares a little better, he is creepy at the best of times. He also doesn't have as many inane lines and gets to do hammy Warlock stuff that basically consists of pointing at things, squinting and pursing his lips while he waits for the shonky (even for the 80s!) special effects to kick in. And where else do you get to have a convo with a young boy before cutting away to reveal that you have not only killed the boy but plan to drink his boiled body fat to give you the gift of flight! It turns out that in this case it isn't just Red Bull that gives Warlock's wings! Warlock is actually worth a look if only for the fact that they never take it all too seriously – whether they thought that at the time I am not sure – it is basically a chase movie used as an excuse to show some Warlock-ey stuff, with a couple of British guys speaking British-ly as they chase each other all over the America countryside. If nothing else it's better than 10,000 Twilights.But so are a lot of things.Final Rating – 6.5 / 10. They don't hand out Oscars for this stuff, but you could do a lot worse on a lazy Saturday afternoon.