Cast a Deadly Spell

Cast a Deadly Spell

7/9/1991 1h 36m 6.0/10

Overview

In a fantastical 1940s where magic is used by everyone, a hard-boiled detective investigates the theft of a mystical tome.

Director

Martin Campbell

Top Billed Cast

Julianne Moore

Julianne Moore

Connie Stone

Clancy Brown

Clancy Brown

Harry Bordon

Alexandra Powers

Alexandra Powers

Olivia Hackshaw

David Warner

David Warner

Amos Hackshaw

Fred Ward

Fred Ward

Det. Harry Philip Lovecraft

Charles Hallahan

Charles Hallahan

Det. Morris Bradbury

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

1/11/2023

10/10

I guess the sequel to this is Witch Hunt, which I loved, and saw BEFORE Cast a Deadly Spell. It doesn't much matter only instead of the guy Dennis Hopper, you got Fred Ward, who is probably known to everyone as either "That guy from the Right Stuff" or "Remo Williams." And I grew up in a life surrounded by pulp trash novels. Westerns, mysteries, just dime novels that most people don't proudly display on a book shelf, but were more or less everywhere in my childhood home. There was always one laying around to pick up and devour. So when Cast A Deadly Spell and Witch Hunt hit my radar, they became insta-classics. Sam Spade set in a world of magic. Hard Boiled Detective trash novels meets HP Lovecraft horror trash novels... the perfect merging. Pure pulp entertainment. And ultimately chock full of references to both genres that only a family that loves it's trash can really appreciate. I'm kind of upset there wasn't a third film.

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