Review #103: The Craft (1996)

Cast/Notable Credits:
Andrew Fleming (Director): Bad Dreams (1988), Dick (1999), Nancy Drew (2007)

Robin Tunney (Sarah): End of Days (1999), Supernova (2000), Paparazzi (2004), The Zodiac (2005)

Fairuza Balk (Nancy): The Waterboy (1998) (Pictured Right)

Neve Campbell (Bonnie): Scream

Christine Taylor (Laura): Night of the Demons 2

Breckin Meyer (Mitt): Freddy's Dead

Skeet Ulrich (Chris): Scream

Trailer:


Plot:

New girl, Sarah arrives at St. Bernard's Catholic School Academy in Los Angeles and befriends three girls (Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle) who turn out to be practicing Wicca. Mmmm...Catholic school girls. They teach Sarah the practices and the Wicca ways in hopes of her becoming the fourth witch and completing their circle. Eventually the four form a coven and become powerful witches. They place spells and curses on their fellow student body, especially their enemies. Mmmm...Catholic school girls with powers.

The group becomes increasingly obsessed with power, especially Nancy. Sarah eventually starts to fear the power and cautions the others of the power. She distances herself from her fellow witches but they do not like the new Sarah and Nancy convinces the others that she is the powerful one.

Nancy co hearses the others to mess with the "fallen group member" and Sarah soon learns that her once friends have now become her powerful enemies. Sarah learns that she is a natural witch that has inherited the powerful skills through her late mother, who was also a witch.

Well, I'm not a huge fan of the movie. Maybe it's more of a chick thing, with witches and the whole Gothic thing. It's a watchable movie, but it's not my cup of tea.

I love the idea of four hot chicks using powers and witchcraft to f*ck with others and eventually themselves. But I just didn't really get into the movie. I'm kinda that way on most of the witch movies that I've seen.

It's not a bad movie, I'm just not really into witch movies. The Craft does offer some redeeming qualities and parts. One of them being Robin Tunney (pictured left). Tunney plays the new girl turned powerful witch, Sarah. For the majority of the film she plays a weak girl who takes the crap the others dish out. By the end of the flick, she goes on her own PMS rampage and kicks some butt.

On a super positive note...the movie is embraced with good numbers of "eye candy", including one of my favorites, Christine Taylor. Again...F*CK YOU BEN STILLER! YOU LUCKY S.O.B.! How is that man lucky enough to score that pretty little thing?

Also joining the eye candy portion are Neve Campbell and The Waterboy's Fairuza Balk. For once, Campbell isn't the star of the flick, which is awesome because I'm easily annoyed by her. She plays another...lesser witch of the covent. Thank God, because I honestly can't stand her.

Balk plays the demented Nancy and does a great job of being a psychotic, vengeful b*tch. Nancy thinks she's "all that and a bag of chips" when it comes to being the Alpha-witch-female. Unfortunately she's wrong and her jealousy leads to the darkside.

This movie probably paved the way for the late 90's goth craze. I can watch the movie and just see it in how the style and fashion of the witches are common staples in a goth person's wardrobe. Then again, I'm not really into that or have followed that, so I might be wrong.

It's not that I hate goth or practicing Wicca or any of that stuff. I just never have fully embraced the idea and spent any time looking into it. Some of it looks cool, but that "type" of person just isn't me. Catholic school girls on the other hand...Mmmm.

So, if you are into witchcraft and those sort of practices, and beliefs then check out this flick. It's not a bad movie, but like I've said before it's not my cup of tea. Also if you just want to see a bunch of vengeful hot chicks duke it out, watch some footage on Sarah Palin or check this one out.

Misc. Movie Trivia:
-Film opened on May 3, 1996 and made $24.7 million at the Box Office
-Rachel True portrayed a "teenager" in the film but was near 30 yrs old during filming
-Thought to have inspired the T.V. series Charmed