Warlock III
| Warlock III: The End of Innocence | |
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| Directed by | Eric Freiser |
| Produced by | Bruce David Eisen |
| Written by | Bruce David Eisen Eric Freiser |
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Bruce Payne Ashley Laurence Boti Bliss Angel Boris Paul Francis Rick Hearst Jan Schweiterman |
| Music by | David Reynolds |
| Cinematography | Andrew Turman |
| Edited by | Greg Finton |
| Distributed by | Trimark Pictures |
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94 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2,000,000 |
Warlock III: The End of Innocence is a 1999 direct-to-video horror film written by Bruce David Eisen and Eric Freiser and also directed by the latter. It is the third film in a series that started with the 1989 Warlock. The first two films starred Julian Sands as the Warlock but this film stars Bruce Payne in the titular role of The Warlock.
The story tells of a young girl called Kris who has no knowledge of her family, so when a historian tells her she has inherited a family house, she goes to see it. Also met is her boyfriend Micheal, who desperate not to follow his dream like his father, Scott and Lisa, who are sadomasochistic, Jerry, who is a stoner, and her best friend Robin, who is a witch.
Kris is haunted by visions and dreams of her past life and of a doll from her past life, it is learned that a warlock, Phillip Covington, wanted her as a sacrifice until her mother used her own magic to trap him in the Catacombs of his home. Kris's night in the house is full of strange events; she looks in the mirror and feels the urge to show her breasts and when she turns her reflection screams at her, only to go back to normal when she looks. She also sees an apparition of a child and sensibly decides to leave and be joined by her friends.
Jerry attempts to fix the pipes, and accidentally breaks them, releasing Covington, who escapes in the form of some kind of fluid, which Jerry attributes to being high.
Kris meets the historian the next day as well as Covington, posing as an architect. Covington kills the historian, strangling him using magic and then tearing his throat out with his bare hands. He takes the letters from Kris's mother and blows on them, setting them alight.
Covington then plays psychological games with Kris and her friends, the only exception being Robin, so he gets Jerry to steal her talisman and a lock of her hair. Robin attempts to fight Covington with magic, but being the more experienced, he wins, turning Robin into a glass statue and then shattering her.
Later, Covington needs Kris's friends for permission, so he tortures them. Lisa and Scott get a sadomasochism treatment from hell, Jerry gets to see what Kris thinks of him with a slight twist, and Micheal is turned into his father.
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