The Craft
I crossed another 90s movie off my watch list recently. I was either too young, too old or too poor to watch a lot of movies when I was younger, so there's a lot to catch up on!
The downside of watching a movie like The Craft when you're old is knowing how much you would have appreciated it when you were younger ;-D Seriously, younger me would have been OOOOH and running off to the library to read about witchcraft. However, I was surprised by how much edge and darkness it had for a teen movie of the time. Basically, friendship goes from magic to tragic as the four main characters fail to respect the power of the spells they create. At first they work, and work a little too well as the girls discover the consequences of their actions. In some ways the movie is close to Mean Girls.
There's some cringey stuff in The Craft that also raised my old lady eyebrows, such as an attempted sexual assault and one of the girls pretending to be another girl in order to seduce her old boyfriend. That was especially icky. Overall the movie has some jumbled pacing and too many characters, but if you have nostalgia for it, you would probably enjoy it quite a lot :-) A sequel actually came out in 2020, but I have no desire to watch it.
The downside of watching a movie like The Craft when you're old is knowing how much you would have appreciated it when you were younger ;-D Seriously, younger me would have been OOOOH and running off to the library to read about witchcraft. However, I was surprised by how much edge and darkness it had for a teen movie of the time. Basically, friendship goes from magic to tragic as the four main characters fail to respect the power of the spells they create. At first they work, and work a little too well as the girls discover the consequences of their actions. In some ways the movie is close to Mean Girls.
There's some cringey stuff in The Craft that also raised my old lady eyebrows, such as an attempted sexual assault and one of the girls pretending to be another girl in order to seduce her old boyfriend. That was especially icky. Overall the movie has some jumbled pacing and too many characters, but if you have nostalgia for it, you would probably enjoy it quite a lot :-) A sequel actually came out in 2020, but I have no desire to watch it.
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