{"id":15835,"date":"2023-08-20T20:00:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15835"},"modified":"2023-08-17T17:20:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T21:20:07","slug":"warlock-1989-steve-miner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15835","title":{"rendered":"Warlock (1989, Steve Miner)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my memorial screenings are more respectful than others&#8230; RIP Julian Sands, who was a better actor than allowed by this movie.  The Salem witch hunters got this one right, hoping to hang Sands then burn him over a basket of cats, but he escapes to the present day with Richard E. Grant close behind.  No doubt due to the Earth&#8217;s rotation, the time travel magic also lands them in Malibu.  It&#8217;s all very <em>Highlander<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>We could&#8217;ve just rewatched A Room With a View:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/warlock1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Warlock Sands has to collect leaves from Satan&#8217;s book, killing and cursing people along the way.  He kills a guy who also got killed in Steve Miner&#8217;s <em>Friday the 13th Part 3<\/em>, and curses his wife Lori &#8220;<em>Footloose<\/em>&#8221; Singer to age rapidly via ever-whiter wigs, then drinks the boiled fat of an unbaptized boy to gain flying powers.   Grant teams up with Singer and a Mennonite to perform an ancient ritual&#8230; just kidding, they chuck a weathervane through his body then smash his hand with a hammer.  But Sands escapes to the godless city of Boston and assembles the book using crappy fx, then Lori makes him melt and humanity is saved until the sequel, which I&#8217;m in no hurry to watch.  David Twohy wrote this and made <em>Timescape<\/em> before hitting the big time with <em>The Fugitive<\/em>.  Sands returned in part 2, from the director of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15295\">Hellraiser 3<\/a><\/em>, then Ashley Laurence stars in <em>Warlock 3<\/em>, along with a new Warlock who was (coincidence, I&#8217;m sure) also in a <em>Highlander<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/warlock3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/warlock2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my memorial screenings are more respectful than others&#8230; RIP Julian Sands, who was a better actor than allowed by this movie. The Salem witch hunters got this one right, hoping to hang Sands then burn him over a basket of cats, but he escapes to the present day with Richard E. Grant close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1408,1212,1388,320],"class_list":["post-15835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-julian-sands","tag-memorial-screening","tag-richard-e-grant","tag-witches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15850,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15835\/revisions\/15850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}