Tuesday, 5 August 2025

792 Warlock (1991)

 There aren''t too many original ideas in  this  film about a time-travelling warlock from the 17th Century ( the dreaded Julian Sands )  pursued by a vengeful hunter ( Richard E Grant ) with the aid of a modern-day plucky  heroine. There are distinct echoes of The Terminator , Highlander,  and Time After Time to  name a few. There are effective moments but mostly  this is too silly to be  enjoyable with  Sands as wooden as ever and  Grant  seemingly making up the plot as he goes along in a dodgy ( and completely  unnecessary) Scottish  accent.

Lori Singer ( as Kassandra)

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Lori was born in Texas into a musical family and she herself became  a  musical prodigy  as  a solo cellist at 13. She went to a prestigious music school  but  then moved  into modelling and then acting, inspired by her brother Marc ( best known for V). She got a good part in the TV series Fame which was written around her talents then made her fim debut in Footloose. After Short Cuts in 1993, her film career waned and she has moved into  producing documentaries  with some success.

Nancy Fox ( as Boy's mother )

Sex : No

Death : Survives


Nancy is  another Texan who made an impact as a teenager in the  early  seventies in the medical comedy Temperatures Rising. Thereafter, she worked steadily in TV and  on stage but only made two films. She is still active.

Anna Levine ( as  Pastor's wife )

Sex : Warlock feels her up and determines she is pregnant

Death :  Uncertain


Anna  was born in New  York and came  up  the  hard  way with bit parts in many eighties films  before  starting to get  meatier  roles in the nineties by  which time she was known as Anna Thomson. These included The Unforgiven, True Romance and The Crow.She seems  to have retired after 2012.

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