I remember when I first saw this movie, I was so annoyed by the girl's hair. It's been years later, and I just rewatched this, and my childhood recollections were not wrong. Wtf is up with this chick's hair? It looks beyond fried. The color is a weird orange too? Why in the world did the director not slap a wig on her head? Very distracting and ugly on an already annoying and vapid character.
shareI'm fairly certain that's a wig, Lori's got great hair normally.
shareIt took me out of the story a little bit. Other than that annoying detail, pretty fun flick!
shareI think it's a wig too. It looks horrible. I don't know what they were thinking.
shareIn looking at Lori Singer's pictures, I think they used a wig in this movie. Only God knows why; Lori has very nice looking natural hair. That wig was awful and comical.
shareIn the late 1980s, when Warlock was filmed, that kind of hair would not have been considered "awful and comical," but stylish and very hip for women in their late teens or in their twenties. I remember some older girls/young adults wearing that kind of hairstyles in the late 1980s/early 1990s as a part of their normal, every-day look. It makes Kassandra look as a woman who cares about style and her good looks very much, and makes it even more believable that growing old is one of her worst fears. There were some very weird and outlandish hairstyles in the 1980s (that were considered awful and comical by regular people even back then, and would have been featured only in films & TV, or on catwalks), but Kassandra's hair is nowhere near those styles.
So, simply put, the wig was used because when Warlock was filmed (and when the "modern" part of the film takes place), that kind of hair was considered as cool and stylish, and was a very likely hairstyle for a character like Kassandra. Actually, I think the hairstyle looks very good on Kassandra (and Lori Singer).
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I was a young adult in the 80s and we all used to get those perms to give us the "big hair". I look back at pictures now and see how fried my hair was.
shareFunny, when I saw the title for this thread, I thought it was going to be about Richard E. Grant's hair. That horrible perm and mullet that was, unfortunately, the style back then.
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