Warlock (1989) - Because You Watched Starcrash

<p><strong>“Thou art to be hanged, and then burned over a basket of living cats.”</strong></p> <p>Your Distinguished Witchhunting Professors cross wits with the insane occult time travel movie <em>Warlock</em>! And since no witch can cross no consecrated ground, they discuss the first of our magical time travel movies and a reference to <em>Outlander</em>, the dreaminess of Julian Sands, Lori Singer as the resident hot new wave girlfriend, comparisons with <em>Hocus Pocus</em>, the crazy fakelore of this movie, inconsistent rules regarding Zamiel and time travel, a <em>Laverne and Shirley </em>reference, a need for opening context, a riff on JJ Abrams (come on our show, coward!”), Richard E. Grant’s weird youngness, a quick preview of our exploration of Nicolaus Cage movies, this movie’s weird conservatism regarding who dies, the conundrum of a popular metaphysical comic book shop, Redferne’s made-up grammar and his weirdness even in 1691, a divergence into Brandon Call’s career, Jesus and the twelve apostrophes, lots of double negatives, Satan’s black hell-smeared farting hole, the problem of undoing all creation, the perils of old women makeup, Ron Paulsen’s distinct voice, the sequels and the comic book series, a variety of historical errors, a public service announcement that colors don’t have genders, the <em>Warlock </em>copycat murder, the weird romantic subplot, the omnipresent human drive to bury terrible evils, the stankiness of Redferne’s outfit, the hell of terrible lighting, and the coming Bollywood craziness of <em>Action Replayy</em>!</p> <p>Follow us on Facebook! <a href="https://www.facebook.com/BecauseYouWatchedStarcrash">Because You Watched Starcrash</a></p> <p>Music credits:</p> <p>"Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)</p> <p>Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License</p> <p>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</p> --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. <a href="https://anchor.fm/app">https://anchor.fm/app</a>