Warlock
Short description
Warlock follows Giles Redferne, a witch hunter in seventeenth-century New England who captures a powerful sorcerer. The prisoner escapes execution through supernatural intervention and is hurled forward in time, landing in 1980s America, where he sets out to gather the pieces of a dark book that would grant him the power to destroy the world. Redferne is thrown into the same era and continues his pursuit, out of place in a world he does not understand. He gains an ally in Kassandra, a young woman the sorcerer has cursed, and together they race to stop him before he completes his plan.
Steve Miner directed and produced the film from a screenplay by David Twohy. It is the fifth of thirteen features Miner directed, following Soul Man and preceding Forever Young. Julian Sands plays the sorcerer, with Richard E. Grant as Redferne, Lori Singer as Kassandra, and Mary Woronov, Kevin O'Brien and Richard Kuss among the credited cast of twenty-five; sixty-one crew members are credited.
Released on June 1, 1989, the film runs 103 minutes and blends action, fantasy and horror. It was made for about 7 million dollars and took roughly 9 million dollars worldwide, a modest return. On TMDB it holds 6.3 out of 10 from around 460 votes, indicating a small but steady following.
What's left behind the scenes
- Originally, screenwriter David Twohy intended to make the main character an ordinary kind-hearted person who fled the 17th century to avoid religious persecution and ended up in the 20th century, where he would be accused for the same reasons. After two months of working on the script, Twohy realized that this concept didn't work and decided to make the main character a villain.
- The film was completed in 1988, becoming one of the last films from “New World Pictures” before it went bankrupt.
- The rights to the film were owned by Roger Corman’s company, but after it went bankrupt, the film was shelved. It wasn’t until 1990 that “Trimark” released the film in wide release.
- The film was shot in the state of Utah (the same salt lake featured in the film’s finale), in the cities of Boston and Plymouth in Massachusetts, and in Los Angeles, California.
- After all the images had been approved, and after make-up and costume tests, right at the start of filming, Lori Singer suddenly stated that she refused to wear the prosthetics that turned her character into a 40-year-old woman, and subsequently refused make-up that turned her into a 60-year-old woman.
- The scene in which the "witch" flies out of the plane's cargo hold was filmed with several takes. The cargo hold door on the plane opened with difficulty, so it had to be opened not by the actor, but by an airline employee.
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