Brandon's Cult Movie Reviews: WARLOCK 

Let's Go, Brandon!!!!

So, I've only recently (a few months ago, I think) become a subscriber, but I've already watched your entire back catalog of C.M.R.! I'd love to see you do one of my favorite cheesy movies, Hackers, so I think I might have to drop some Energon for that! Keep up the good work, Tenoldicon!

This to me is an undercover Castlevania movie. Whip, dagger, weather vane is basically a throwing crucifix. Redferne is really a Belmont.

...and what a franchise it is! Warlock 2:Armageddon even gets better than the first one. (Didn't see the 3rd, though)

He's come from the past to destroy the future...which is still in the past.

Absolutely agree.

Just like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing!

Alan Rickman and Gary Oldman.

Craig T. Nelson and John Carradine

Like Captain and Tiniel.

A room with a view

RIP Julian Sands. He was a hell of a character actor.

When I first red Harry Potter I always pictured him as playing draco malfoys father lol

Apparently, Sean Connery was the initial choice to play Redferne.

glad i'm not the only one who saw that

Omg yes! 😂💜

That's a good idea! Maybe just a bit more muscular tho

Or Lucius Malfoy

There was a blond henchman in The Living Daylights. I thought that was him in the white speedo but was some other guy.

That's a damn good point. He would have been AWESOME as a bond villain.

If only he could. May he rest in peace

Made a good villain on _Person of Interest,_ too!

@@angusmacfrankenstein7227 Man, it's been so long since I last saw that show that I completely forgot he was in it

Fuckers can just whip out entire civilizations? Damn, where do they keep them? Heh, jk

Ever seen Boxing Helena? Twisted, man, twisted.

And Banshee (tv show). I fell in love with him watching 'Room with a View' ❤

The older Loki variant, to be precise. Kind of depressing to see how young he look here, and how much older he looks as Loki.

@@dreamlandnightmare I'm shocked Brandon @ 4:09 didn't mention Lori Singer is also Marc Singer's older sister from "Beast master" and "v"

Dolph ludgeen as Thor

Sad that he's gone now though! 😥

@@freakyfornash yes it is

Julian sands is awesome but it’s tragic that he died and I’ll miss him being in movies

Spot on actually! According to Wiccan Folklore - Nails in your Door, Preferably in teh shape of a Cross or Star, will ward away evil spirits - A Tradition that remained in Irish Culture for Centuries until teh Mid 1800's ... And some Irish Folks still will put Nails in their doors at Halloween! Hence, The idea in the movie and yeah... Its pretty accurate! In fact, That one of the reasons I adore the movie... It did a great job of actually researching the Folklore (A Far better job than the Gardinarian Wiccans who are now hailed as the "Fathers of Modern Wicca... The Modern Wicca was founded by Two Naturists who wanted to see Young Girls get Naked - Hence their constant claims of Witches casting spells "Skyclad" or NUDE!!!)

@@Phoenix2312 Making up a religion, just to get laid. Shocker.

@@louisduarte8763 The founders of Wicca borrowed from all kinds of European and Christian folklore, though, so technically they didn't make it up. Heck, the pentagram as a warning/ward *against* evil is still a thing in some parts of the world, and was only associated with the devil in the *20th* century. You'll still find devoutly Christian people from Africa wearing pentagram lockets to ward against the Devil. And the movie is actually really accurate about a lot of things - the toe cuffs, the magic spells, iron and salt being things that can hurt the Devil's servants, etcetera.

@@louisduarte8763 LMAO! Tell me about it... Thankfully, There are people like me who are trying to take it back to its GENUINE Roots... Which, as with most religions - Are not that differnt from Christianity... Just Wiccan's Worshipped the world around them rather than a specific all Powerful God ... They actually worshipped a Male and Female God believing everything had a balance. And yeah - Sadly that does mean that teh religion can be unintentionally Anti-LGBTQ+ when you really think about it, but it is an ancient culture!!! They didn't know the world was going to change like this! LOL! Like all religions, It adapts to a new world!

@@Phoenix2312 LGBTQ+ is nothing new

Oh, I lol'd!

If you dyed her hair she could have been auditioning for Triss in Blade Runner too.

@@evilbob840 You mean she's NOT trying to be model girl/stalking victim from Cobra with Sylvester Stallone?

@@homelesshannah50 She'd have to curl her hair for that role...

@@evilbob840 LOL

Yeah, but I thought he nailed it.

@@louisduarte8763 Reading my comment back, yeah it does kinda sound like I'm trashing his performance. Was not how I meant it. Oops.

He was burdened with glorious purpose!

​@@louisduarte8763 Oh hell yeah. I mean, it takes a really great actor with an incredible talent to not only pull off such a genuine and sincere performance like the one he gave for Classic Loki, but do so while wearing that (admittedly) ridiculous costume and still managing to keep his dignity.

I got beat but its not a full color one like the ones in PA.

@@JeffreyPiatt 😆😆😆👍🏿

The cultural roots of the German immigrant use of esoteric wood carvings and painted designs is pretty obscure these days. Pow-wow tradition never really hit mainstream and pretty much died out as anything but a curiosity in the 1800's when spiritualism took up the same niche. Now all you can find are a few architectural curiosities like protective woodcarvings and the cultural remnants that made it into the Evangelical movement post Civil War and eventually became modern faith healing. And of course the use of the upright pentangle as protection was culturally demolished the the Satanic Panic.

@@morganrobinson8042 Very True! Even now the Symbol is misappropriated! Much like the Inverted Cross - Neither a Pentagram nor an Inverted Cross are Satanic... Hell, I done a massive comment for any wannabe CinemaSins Copycats so they can well and truly SIN Horror Movies using these outdated tropes!!! LMAO!

Yeah funnily enough, I never knew that until I played fallout 76, and I live nextdoor to a house that has one.

And some Candlemass on top of that... You're on fire!

It's Brandon tenold. He's always on top of his references

@@katerinavialpando3620 I believe you're right!!

I didn’t even think of the band until I saw this. Now I’m forgetting what this movie was about.

Doro 🤘

I didn't look up, but I buy it. Wouldn't be surprised if this were true and Rowling just gave her Malfoys the Malfoy-Sands family traits.

Now if you only knew what happened to Bill Fruge

@@vitorafmonteiro Nah, it was just a joke. But the similarity, especially to Jason Isaac's Lucius is striking, isn't it? ;)

Julian Sands would go on portraying an evil priest in Stargate SG-1.

Pfft. Voldemort takes one look at the Warlock and tells him to tone it down a notch before he gets them kicked out of the Young Adult section.

Like SJWs today.

Just like today, actually the 1600s don't seem so bad compared to today ! 😀😎

well, lord have mercy. That woulda escalated quickly...😳

In the words of Nathan Explosion, "Metal."

I read the novelization before ever seeing the film, and it's Sooooooo much more explicit than the film ended up being.

In the late 80's that probably would have earned this film an X rating from the censors.

@@judsongaiden9878 I thought it was " Brutal", but Nathan had a ton of good one liners, damn I miss that show

Don't be surprised when he responds by saying "Temper both your dull whit and sharp tongue lest you find yourself afoot, ye hedge-born harecop!"

Yall both silly. Now that's some common language for yous both.

I saw this at the movies and the hair on the back of my neck stood up on end for a week

They found his body today in Mt Baldy

It’s so sad to know Julian will longer be with us to deliver more iconic work

May he rest in peace.

Excellent.

Hell yeah it is!

It wasn't worldly accepted at the time, probably because it was never round

@@corywiedenbeck1562 Da ErF iZ fLaT!

Actually she filled the syringes with salt water.

@@the_once-and-future_king. yeah. Insulin takes a little time to kick in. And extreme hypoglycemia does surely not cause combustion of any kind.

@@azmodanpc Plus she _says_ it's salt water. Which is kind of a big hint.

Assuredly not, for priests were the lapdogs of the Whore of Babylon, who sat in Rome, enthroned in sin and worldly vice! That's not old Puritan speak, it's a minor paraphrasing of something one of the local Born Again loons spouted it at the bus stop last week. Called the cops on him when he started screaming at some women who were walking by for being harlots. The fact that he was waving a porn mag around while ranting kind of ruined that part of the pitch.

DAMNABLE PAPISTS!!! Hold ye vile tongue lest the grate und noble witchfeender general doth pluck it frome thine idol warshipping mouthes. Sorry, channeling Atun-Shei there...

@@richmcgee434 Ruined that part of the pitch. "So you have a new religion for me?" "Yes sir, I do! It's called Born Again Christianity". "Catchy name! So what's the deal with it?" "Well you get baptized again and are reborn. Obviously that kinda resets everything and you're a virgin in the eyes of the Lord". "Oh, virgins are tight!" "That...that's not the message we're trying to send." "Oh whoops!" "Whoopsie!"

@@the_once-and-future_king. Squeezing a Pitch Meeting reference in is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

It was on cable almost as much as Beastmaster.

@@davidhanson4909 ​ Hey Beastmaster's On (HBO)

There was a weird sense of narcissism in the 1980s that figured every fictional character would want to end up there. Even the command crew of the starship Enterprise. Don't get me wrong, the movies and music from the time are pretty awesome and the fashions were... memorable, but I think most time travellers would want to aim for a time period that had internet access.

My first exposure to him as an actor was as a kid seeing Arachnophobia. Dude is a consummate professional though as I came to discover watching more of his movies as I grew up and got into weirder movie fare.

He always treats whatever he's in with such respect, even if it might not entirely deserve his respect. Consummate professional. On a side note I wish I had his voice.

My favourite performance of his is 'Arachnophobia'. He's amazing in that.

@@andrewbyrne2173 - As Christopher Lee once said: "Every actor has to make terrible films from time to time, but the trick is never to be terrible in them".

@@RictusHolloweye yep. I never understand why actors feel they can just phone in performances. They're getting paid good money to do a job most of us dream of doing.

Fun fact: Sands was Anne Rice's choice for Lestat too. She didn't care for Cruise.

Same, it is a classic.

Yup. Not all that unhappy about it, although, I kinda wish I'd responded to one of those emails offering extended warranties...

Yea, we're all gettin old. It's all good though, it's been a hell of a ride and we definitely lived in a unique bit of history.

I always thought she was a Walgreens version of Nicole Kidman but that's just me.

@@homelesshannah50 No Nicole Kidman didn't come around at the same time as Lori Singer

@@theylied1776 Still when Nicole did come around Lori seems like such a low rent version of her.

@@homelesshannah50 I always thought Lori was hotter than Darryl, I saw her first in 'The Man With One Red Shoe' and she was gorgeous in that.

Ah yes, Baywatch.

Boxing Helena was…😳🤭😱

You nes magician

Ha! I just commented on how Redferne is always how I envisioned a Belmont should look.

Wow, yes! Richard E. Grant here was giving me major Richard Armitage vibes.

@@snukastyle He does and 75% of his mannerism are a kin Trevor Belmont. Julian Sands is more of evil Alucard & Lori Singer's sass & brash do resembles Sypha a lot.

@@jstratton1981 Highly agree.

Same thing just happened with me.

They just discovered his body in Mt Baldy.

@@toltusone Thanks, I hadn't seen that news. I learned from the report on his body being discovered that he was from a town about 20 miles from me.

Michael rooker as roasach

He would.

He did more than a little research. That apparent lunacy about being burned over a basket of cats was an actual thing in Europe (both with and without a witch involved) and got transplanted to the Salem area briefly. Never heard of it before this and I kind of wish I hadn't now. I also now know that Ypres (in Belgium) has a festival where they throw cats out of a belfry followed up by a witch burning and parades. These days the cats are plush toys for the kids and the burning's just a faked performance, but apparently they both used to be real. Presumably the when they were still using live (until impact, anyway) cats the kids didn't stand below trying to catch one - although given how deranged the whole thing is, maybe they did.

@@richmcgee434 How charming! I can certainly see why that time period is often called "The Dark Ages". What else would you call a time where they burn grandma and her cats?

They did the same in the 70s with shows like Kolchak: The Night Stalker. It was one of Chris Carter's inspirations for The X-Files. Kolchak's lead actor Darren McGavin even guest starred in some X-Files episodes.

I'm surprised that witches aren't just women, and I that makes the owl house more accurate.

@@ginoelias5702 I don't know anything about Owl House, but the idea that witches are just women is one of many misconceptions perpetuated by movies and television...kinda like the thing about sunlight killing vampires or the upside-down cross being Satanic.

I love that movie. Haven't seen it in years!!

Wasn't he is Boxing Helena? Super weird.

@@stillhuntre55 My literal first association when him and 'utterly bizarre' are mentioned together and that is saying something considering he was in Cronenberg's Naked Lunch.

Gotta love the irony. Of course, he's also fought vampires, and was a Doctor Who villain, and also voiced The Doctor in a non-canon animated bit.

@@JnEricsonx and Manager of the Spice Girls in Spice World!

I thought it was Redford too until I read the inscription on his grave.

That is literally the best way to make a Castlevania movie. No one would see it coming

@@TupocalypseShakur true

I was just about to mention the Bela Lugosi lighting

Definitely!

That's my fave performance of his - his friendship with the timid psychic (Judith Ivey) feels really fresh because the 'obvious' thing might have been for him to be cruel and sarcastic toward her. He's as decadent and sly as ever...but also good.

I can easily see that being the case.

It is. The second warlock is one of my all time personal favorite horror movies.

@@punsized2296 yeah i agree the second film was really good also. The 3rd film they should have called something else.

@@williamadkins4133Yeah. I thought the 3rd film was decent.

@@punsized2296 it wasn't bad but they should have called it something else I think.

Me too! The third one is freaking terrible though.

Hopefully Warlock 2 and maybe Gothic.