#GuiltyPleasureConfessional: The ‘Warlock’ Comes in Three

Usually, when I do one of these guilty pleasure spots, I’m talking about a movie that I watched during childhood and loved. I discuss how I have all these fond memories of it and how I get all the nostalgia feels watching it as an adult. However, my guilty pleasure today is going to be a bit different. One day, I was randomly flipping through the channels and saw a movie title that caught my eye. This happened because I mistook the title for another movie’s title, that of The Wizard, which is about a little boy who is amazing at video games and wins a championship title while trying to bring his broken family together. (Yeah, that was the 80s family films for ya.) Anyway, imagine my shock when I see some super pale, ice blonde haired man dressed in black on the screen, who I knew for damn sure wasn’t in The Wizard. This movie turned out to be, a movie that in part still had a title like The Wizard. It was called Warlock. The series, which has 3 movies, follows the same basic premise of a warlock from hell tries to help bring Satan to Earth. To be more specific, in the first movie, Warlock (1989), Satan opens a portal and sends the warlock into the future after he is about to be killed by a witch-hunter. The witch-hunter follows through the portal before Satan can close it. Now in the future, Satan tasks the warlock with finding a spellbook known as the Grand Grimoire. In the book is the true name of God, when, if spoken backwards, will undo all of creation, bring chaos, and …