Warlock (1989) - Because You Watched Starcrash

“Thou art to be hanged, and then burned over a basket of living cats.” Your Distinguished Witchhunting Professors cross wits with the insane occult time travel movie Warlock! And since no witch can cross no consecrated ground, they discuss the first of our magical time travel movies and a reference to Outlander, the dreaminess of Julian Sands, Lori Singer as the resident hot new wave girlfriend, comparisons with Hocus Pocus, the crazy fakelore of this movie, inconsistent rules regarding Zamiel and time travel, a Laverne and Shirley 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 Warlock 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 Action Replayy! Follow us on Facebook! Because You Watched Starcrash Music credits: "Laser Groove" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/