SummaryA newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them.
Directed By:Andrew Fleming
Written By:Peter Filardi, Andrew Fleming
The Craft
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Mixed or Average
55
User score
Generally Favorable
7.1
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
45% Positive
9 Reviews
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35% Mixed
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75
The Craft casts a spell with a cast of four kicky young actresses, atmospheric California settings, cool special effects and the attitude of a music video. [03 May 1996]
70
The Craft is well-made with a hard-driving pace. It places heavy demands on its four lead actresses, who come through in impressive fashion. Director and co-writer Andrew Fleming makes sure he and his stars deliver the goods. [03 May 1996, p.F16]
User score
Generally Favorable
69% Positive
29 Ratings
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29% Mixed
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2% Negative
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Jul 28, 2020
9
With the threat of a new version I decided to revisit this childhood classic of mine which actually inspired me and my friends to try goth for a couple months, or maybe it was just me, lol. Well the movie holds up surprisingly well and some part of that may be due to nostalgia but I really loved it, maybe even more than before. Robin Tunney(End of Days) stars as Sara the new girl at school who falls into a group of outcast witches after being burned by the popular kids. Once she joins the coven the stars align and they begin to experience some real power. The only problem is the maniacal and charasmatic leader Nancy played by a feisty Fairuiza Balk (Island of Dr. Moreau) gets power hungry and takes her vengeance to another level. Rachael True (Half Baked) and the always awesome Neve Campbell star as the other two members battling their own problems and insecurities. What makes the film work so well is the sisterhood and sometimes twisted friendship of these girls. They feel genuine and their stories are relatable as they deal with every day problems ranging from rumors to racism, abuse and body issues. The witchcraft is an added bonus and unlike most films of it's kind it delivers on that aspect including a slightly short but effective finale. Christine Taylor (Brady Bunch), Skeet Ulrich (Scream) and Breckin Meyer (Clueless) also star. The film is confidently directed by Andrew Fleming of one of my favorite 80s flicks Bad Dreams with a screenplay by Peter Filardi of Flatliners. It also features an amazing soundtrack with songs by Our Lady Peace, Letters to Cleo, Love spit love and more. I'm sure who's ever reading this has a love for this film as I do, so maybe it's time for a revisit. Budget: $15M
Box Office: $55.6M 9/10
67
The Craft should please teenage girls at malls everywhere. But the film ends up descending into moralizing blahness. Most of the special effects are routine (the girls levitate like Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice), though there is one memorable bit: a nightmare featuring enough snakes, bugs, and slithery maggots to make Indiana Jones go gulp.
60
Four gifted and attractive actresses struggle hard to lend a semblance of dramatic coherence to The Craft, a neatly crafted film that begins most promisingly as a black comedy a la Heathers, but gradually succumbs to its tricky machinery of special effects. Still, young audiences, particularly women, are likely to connect with this energetic high-school tale about the vengeful empowerment of rebellious misfits.
50
There are some fine set-pieces, including a magical release of butterflies and a disturbing dream sequence, but the end opts disappointingly for standard horror-house effects.
38
If Fleming had played everything as a black comedy with a satirical send-up of high school life - like Heathers - he might have had something. But The Craft has no consistency and certainly no art as it drifts into an unprepossessing display of special-effects magic. [03 May 1996, p.08]
25
This tale of teenage witches run amok is silly, juvenile stuff, and it doesn't even have the decency to stick to its own ridiculous logic. [03 May 1996, p.6G]
Jul 9, 2024
5
A magia exagerada de The Craft muitas vezes substitui a mensagem no núcleo do filme, mas seu elenco atraente e perspectiva pós-moderna ainda lançam um feitiço esporádico.
Feb 16, 2022
5
Some of the effects were good and some were pretty ropey. Look at the floating scene and then look at the colour-changing hair scene. Worlds apart in terms of convincing! Watched in stereo and it was fine. Nothing notable. This is not scary or shocking! It is a bit gross. It is also a teen movie. It has a lesbian feel. The main girls are sometimes great but other times annoying. I found some plot turns very forced. It is a predictable cliché of a witch movie that fails to make a good impression. Not that great at all. Reminded me of a TV-movie made for SyFy.
Production Company:
- Columbia Pictures
- Red Wagon Entertainment
Release Date:May 3, 1996
Duration:1 h 41 m
Rating:R
Tagline:Welcome to the Witching Hour
Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 5 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
