Warlock
1989
Synopsis: Julian Sands is a witch practicing the dark arts who has his execution stayed by Satan so that he can find the Grand Grimoire - the ultimate book of shadows. He's tossed three centuries into the future and, unbeknownst to him, followed by a witch-hunter named Redferne. They both end up in Lori Singer's home...eventually.
Sands was just made to portray supernatural - or in the case of The Turn of the Screw, disinterested - villainy. It's hard to say anything bad about him or his character. However, swaddled in furs like he was, Redferne looked more like he stepped off the 15th or 16th century highlands (minus the kilt) than the 17th century New England settlements. While we're on wardrobe, broad-shouldered Lori Singer looked like a linebacker in drag. Her hair was a frizzy, red mess that made her head look abnormally small and her wardrobe was truly horrible even for the 80s. She actually looked better after she was be-spelled. Well, not wearing those white hightops with black stockings and leather but better than the disco-diner waitress outfit she had on the first day..
Anywho, this is actually a highly tolerable movie. The special effects are not ever the top so, even being dated, they were survivable. Terrible fashion choices aside, the film's logic is easy to follow and more suspenseful than actually horrible. It's comical the things people used to believe about the signs of witchcraft and the wards or counters for them - which sometimes sounded more like witchery themselves. Now on to the sequel.
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