This scene involves the warlock freezing the channeler(Mary Woronov), and then stomping on her nude chest until the eyes pop out of her breasts. I have only heard it described and and was curious if anyone has seen it.
shareYOU WOULD SEEM TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT, THAN ANY OF US.... THOUGH THERE IS A GUY FROM AUSTRIALIA THAT IS ON HERE, WHOM CLAIMS THAT HE HAS A VERSION OF IT...
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i remember - way back when Warlock first came out - there was an article about that part of the movie(can't remember where from now - sorry! :( ). The scene was re-edited and the rest scrapped because of the violent nature of the psychic's death. Someone thought it un-necessary if i recall correctly. Not sure if it would pop up as a 'deleted' scene or not (depends on if someone saved it from the cutting room floor lol) - it would be interesting to see though :D
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If I remember correctly, there is a quick scene in the trailer where you see the woman with a strange face. Like its covered in something (not the mask that ended up in the movie). Guess that is part of the deleted freezing scene, if it does exist.
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I would love to see the complete original version of Mary Woronov's death scene, but alas it has yet to turn up anywhere. A brief portion of said scene can be glimpsed in the theatrical trailer.
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This is the scene from the screenplay.
CHANEL
(as Zamiel)
I am Zamiel, the father. Only when
you have put aside all doubts will
you…will you be able to ask me…
to ask me…
Her body shudders as something cold and foreign wells up inside. An icy light radiates from within. Her hands tear at her clothes. Her back arches, her breasts thrust forward and then staring at us, her nipples blink. They are the eyes of Satan.
SATAN’S VOICE
(croakish, bottomless,
utterly inhuman)
…ask me what thou will.
(Satan then commands the Warlock with his task. The dialogue is the same but throughout the dialogue, the Channel‘s core-temperature plummets: Her breath plumes, and her eyes, her own eyes, sheet with ice. Her words come slow and labored.)
Satan voids the body, leaving the channel frozen solid. Barely able to contain himself, the Warlock whispers in her icy ear:
WARLOCK
Did you hear, spiritualist? And are
you utterly impressed? For you are
the first -- the first to have lain
eyes upon the new messiah. Eh? Eh?
He pokes her with a finger until she falls from the chair.
She hit’s the floor and shatters like glass.
The Warlock sorts through the broken body parts, freeing the nipple-eyes from surrounding tissue.
CLOSE on the eyes rolling around on his open palm. When they roll to a stop, the eyes have aligned, “looking” to their destination.
I think the scene was cut my the MPAA as they deemed it too grisly and inappropriate and forced the director to re-film and re-edit the scene, which is a shame. I would have been so much better and scarier had this stayed in the movie. If anyone has the scene I would also love to see it. They did a pretty good re-enactment of it on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Du6XHKCBPY
Thanks for posting that. That screenplay differs from two of mine in that scene, but not by much.
The scene was removed by Steve Miner after test screenings. I have several magazines that covered the film, and they all indicate that the decision rest with the director.
I agree that it would have been a better film. If they kept the elements from the earlier draft of the screenplay, Warlock would have been a much more violent film and stayed closer to the horror genre.
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Cool. I was only able to find the shooting script and would love to find those earlier drafts. Can you describe how much more violent and different those earlier drafts were?
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- In the films prologue, the Warlock tries to escape his jailers and kills several of them before Redferne arrives and stops him.
- The Warlock had already tried to collect the pieces of the bible before and had failed before being captured.
- The Warlocks first victim is a rent a cop who finds him resting in a buildings satellite dish.
- Redferne appears in 1980's Los Angeles earlier.
- The Warlock has the ability to shape shift and uses this ability through the film.
- Chas is murdered by the Warlock when he disguises himself as his girlfriend and removes his tongue.
- Redferne and the Warlock meet and fight in Chas's house before Kassandra calls the police on them both. The Warlock hides, Redferne still goes to jail.
- The Warlock spies on Redferne and Kassandra as they track him by using severed limbs from animals and a human at one point.
- Redferne fights a succubus disguised as his wife that the Warlock has summoned. The Witch compass is destroyed during this fight.
- The Warlock kills a hobo after skinning the boy.
- During the barn yard fight, the Warlock summons demons that Redferne battles.
- The Warlock GIVES Kassandra back her bracelet to get rid of her.
- In the finale, the Warlock actually buys a ticket on the plane and kidnaps Kassandra after she has medicated Redferne into unconsciousness.
- Redferne steals a cab and drives it around Boston.
- The warlock morphs into a hellhound and chases Redferne.
- In the end, Kassandra brings the Grimoire to a priest for safe keeping. He is highly skeptical. After he insures her he will watch over the pages Kassandra leaves. The last shot is of a church basement where the pages rest on a box labeled "For Next Bazaar."
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Yikes!
Don't like that version at all.
Is it from a original screenplay? Book?
Even the eye-breasts sounds a bit to much for me. I think the strength in the Warlock movie is that it dares to be eerie and don't need to use as much "ouph", witty dialog and small hints of magic, counterspells and such and the fact that he is getting more powerful during the journey (hex-fire, flying) is good enough. Today the "Zemael-face" the flying, the eyes, the aging and even the hex-fire look pretty corny, and I think that breast-eyes, morphings, succubuses and such would just have lovered this gem of a movie into a bad eighties horrormovie. But now I think it hold good together as a Fantasy/thriller something =)
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Agreed.
I think it is the restraint of the final version, the witty dialogue and the fact that most of the violence is implied rather than explicitly shown, that elevates Warlock above the usual 80s slasher flick. If it had been a bells-and-whistles exploding-guts-everywhere type horror flick, I don't think it would be quite so fondly remembered.
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I posted this in another thread but here it is again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Du6XHKCBPY
Twohy wrote all that??? I would have liked that version much better, what with all the special effeccts. Face it, Warlock doesn't have many. What exactly, does the warlock morph inot (besides a black hellhound)? And what's up with Chas's girlfreind? Chas was gay--at least he was in the version that reached the screen.
shareYes. The Warlock morphs into Redferne's wife and Chas's girlfriend. The screenplay describes him as studying the person closely before changing into them. His clothing remained the same of course. In the early versions of the screenplay, Chas had a girlfriend. I don't believe she had a substantial role though.
shareSimilar thing happened in Gothic (1986) with Julian Sands. One of the naked female companions was in a trance with large, vacant eyes and she kept saying "look into my eyes!" then the camera panned down to her bare chest and her breasts had eyes in them. I guess Warlock was a "bit" more gory as why it was cut as the scene in Gothic was just eerie.
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Here is the scene from youtube.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Du6XHKCBPY
Thanks. I ran across that before. Hopefully the original shot will be put on the American Blu Ray release, if there ever is one.
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