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- 1996
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 41 m
Summary A 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
- 1996
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 41 m
- 1996
- R
- Sony Pictures Releasing
- 1 h 41 m
The Craft
55
8.0
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Summary A 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
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
55
45% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
55
45% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
35% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
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]
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
Based on 100 User Ratings
8.0
84% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
15% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
1% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 100 User Ratings
8.0
84% Positive
84 Ratings
84 Ratings
15% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
1% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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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.
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.
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.
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]
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]
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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.
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Awards
Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
• 5 Nominations
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 2 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
