Warlock - The Armageddon (DVD)

I first saw this film when I was about 11 years old, and I must have seen it another 50 times since. This film was, and is excellent! It starts off back in medieval times, where a Warlock (Male Witch, played by Julian Sands) has finally been captured by Richard E. Grant and is about to be killed for his crimes. In a final bid to escape Sands musters up a spell which transports him into the future, followed closely by Grant. Once in the future Sands makes its is goal to find the lost pages of a sacred book which will reveal to him the lost name of God. If he succeeds and utters the name then the World will come to an end. And guess who has got to stop ...  Read the complete review

This really is an absolute classic. It stars Julian Sands and Richard E Grant and some woman who never did anything else. We start in days of yore in a village somewhere, there is a tower at the end of a street and a procession of important looking people head towards it. Inside we find Julian Sands (aka the Warlock) chained up. The important folk try to get him to admit to being a witch but to no avail, they leave and are replaced by Richard E. Grant with a big mullet, bad clothes and a suspect scottish accent (Giles Redfern, the hero). Suddenly the weather becomes stormy and in true cheesy style both the warlock and redfern are swept away. Cut to mid eighties America. ...  Read the complete review