Trivia / Warlock (1989)

• Cast the Runner-Up: Julian Sands was initially considered for the role of Redferne and Richard E. Grant for the Warlock. Director Steve Miner opted to cast each of the actors against type by reversing their roles.
• Fake Nationality: Richard E. Grant (a British citizen of Dutch/Afrikaner ancestry) plays Scotsman Redferne.
• Short Run in Peru: The film was completed in 1988 and was set to open in May 1989, but New World Pictures went under. It took two years to find a domestic release (the film did open in 1989 outside the US) via Trimark Pictures.
• Wag the Director: Kassandra was originally supposed to look a lot older than she does. However, like William Shatner during filming of the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Deadly Years," Lori Singer had problems with the makeup. This wasn't for reasons of ego (Shatner didn't want to look old, even though that was kind of the point), but because the intended appliances made Singer claustrophobic^note A problem shared with Mission: Impossible's Barbara Bain. Thus, her makeup had to be drastically toned down.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The role of Redferne was originally offered to Sean Connery.
  • The infamous "breaking lady" sequence. Originally, after the channeler becomes possessed, the Warlock tears open her clothes to reveal that her nipples have transformed into a pair of eyes. Then he stomps all over her torso, crushing and smashing it (with the appropriate sound effects), in order to free them. The scene was judged to be much too gruesome, so it was replaced with the Warlock simply plucking the channeler's eyes out instead.

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