Warlock: The Armageddon, a 1993 horror film from Trimark Pictures. It was directed by Anthony Hickox, written by Kevin Rock, and produced by Peter Abrams. A sequel in title only to the 1989 film Warlock, it stars Julian Sands returning in the title role.
There was a 1999 sequel to this movie called Warlock III: The End of Innocence for which Sands did not return. The role was recast with Bruce Payne in the title role.
Plot Summary
In this movie we learn that Druids have stopped the rise of Satan's son using magical rune stones which create light to vanquish the darkness. The opening shows one of these rituals taking place on a woman Satan has selected; it does not take long before they are attacked by Christians who feel their work is synonymous with Satanic witchcraft (Satanism). Most of the Druids die, and the rune stones are scattered.
The movie cuts to a more recognizable future where a young man and woman are clearly in love with each other but are having issues. Their parents are druids, while the girl's father is a priest and has neglected his responsibilities as a druid, the boy's father kills his son so he can rise again with the aid of druid magic to become a druid warrior.
In the meantime, a young woman has possession of one of the runes due to it being passed down through her family. She wears the rune to impress her date but as she looks out her kitchen window at the lunar eclipse she instantly becomes pregnant and gives birth to the Warlock, allowing Satan to conceive a son in the form of Julian Sands. After he is reborn, he chases down the poor girl who unwillingly gave birth to him and kills her. He then peels the flesh from her stomach and makes it into a map so he can track the other runes.
So the druid warrior now learns how to use his druid powers, and it is not long before his girlfriend joins him. While all this goes on, the warlock gains the rune stones to raise his father from his prison, causing all sorts of chaos and deaths along the way.
The last rune stone is around the neck of the Druid warrior, and they both fight the warlock exhibiting a vast array of powers and magic. At the end, as Satan rises, they shine car lights, sending him back, and they kill the warlock with a powerful knife tempered with metal from the holy grail. The warlock dies a gruesome death, taking a rune stone with him, and the Druid warriors leave.
Mythology
Druids were not Christian and did not follow a single god as the movie claims; however, this is an interesting way to show how Christians may be treated if they did not follow the church and how they were demonized.
Julian Sands returns as the Warlock but whether he is the same Warlock in unclear, he does not seem susceptible to the same ways of hurting him, such as hallowed ground and salt. It is possible that being the son of Satan means he transcends this, though there is a curse which damages him shown in the movie—but it is said only a Druid warrior can harm him and even they need the holy blade.
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