:cheer: I just watched that film for the first time on C4 last night.

 

What a cool teen based non hollywood style horror movie. Its like "Mean Girls meets Carrie" but without hollywood style gloop of "Mean Girls".

 

Faruza Balk if thats how you spell it rocks as Nancy.

 

There ideas of revenge on the cliquey high school types was so much more fun.

 

Best witchcraft style horror I have ever seen great story great acting.Well apart from Carrie maybe.

 

Brilliant soundtrack also caught a rare elastica track spastica playing in the party scene.

 

Pity none of the lead actresses didnt make it big apart from Neve Campbell for a while.

 

9/10

Edited March 2, 200916 yr by zero

Oh man this came out when I was 12 - and I was a very impressionable 12 year old! My friends and I spent the rest of the summer playing Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board and playing with ouija boards and burning candles in the middle of the day and generally freaking out our parents :lol:

 

After Scream was released later that year, Neve Campbell became an unlikely teen superstar (at 23 years old, haha). Christine Taylor is also great in The Craft... she's great in everything though.

Oh man this came out when I was 12 - and I was a very impressionable 12 year old! My friends and I spent the rest of the summer playing Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board and playing with ouija boards and burning candles in the middle of the day and generally freaking out our parents :lol:

 

After Scream was released later that year, Neve Campbell became an unlikely teen superstar (at 23 years old, haha). Christine Taylor is also great in The Craft... she's great in everything though.

 

Yeah its a v corruptable teen orientated movie which is a major plus. It kind of makes witchcraft cool. I dont think they would make a movie like this anymore.

 

 

LOL I got into this like think it was last October? I really enjoyed it despite how corney it gets.

I watched this last night too ^_^

Very good witch film. Very Charmed-esque.

yeah, loved this back in 1996!

Saw this in the cinema and wasn't that impressed really.

It's not exactly great by any means, but enjoyable enough, preferable to rubbish like "The Covenant"... It came along a few years after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, and of course by the time the Buffy TV show came out, The Craft was somewhat forgotten about, then of course came Charmed..... Was a bit surprised that a sequel or a 'direct-to-video' follow up wasn't done for it though, they usually like to milk these sorts of things

It's not exactly great by any means, but enjoyable enough, preferable to rubbish like "The Covenant"... It came along a few years after the Buffy the Vampire Slayer film, and of course by the time the Buffy TV show came out, The Craft was somewhat forgotten about, then of course came Charmed..... Was a bit surprised that a sequel or a 'direct-to-video' follow up wasn't done for it though, they usually like to milk these sorts of things

I wouldve counted Charmed as a reply to The Craft.. They are both very similar (And they both use Love Spit Love' version of How Soon Is Now)

Edited March 4, 200916 yr by Joao.

Hahaha The Craft <3 Good old Neve eh? Whatever happened to her she was like mega star for about a year then just seemed to fall off the face of the earth? :/

 

If I watched this now I'd probably be like heh but back then it was pretty cool.

Hahaha The Craft <3 Good old Neve eh? Whatever happened to her she was like mega star for about a year then just seemed to fall off the face of the earth? :/

 

I know, I actually quite like Neve Campbell... She always seemed a lot more grounded than most young Hollywood actresses, and she was good in "Party of Five" as well... The rest of the cast of this film seem to have disappeared as well.. Faruza Balk...??? Robin Tunney....???? Stacey Dash...????

 

You imdb search Neve Campbell, and it's pretty much mostly piecemeal TV work since the Scream films.....

 

Thats a interesting point.

 

I dont profess to know tons about movies.

 

But perhaps its for another topic. But Horror movie actresses who debut in successful films many never seem to shake the genre totally or get really A-list parts.

 

I guess there are a few exceptions I can think of.

 

Patricia Arquette - Nightmare on elm street III - True Romance,Stigmata she did ok I guess

 

Jamie Lee Curtis - Halloween - Too many films to mention.

 

Sarah Michelle Gellar has more or less flopped outside the horror genre 2 I guess. Scooby Doo and Cruel Intentions were big but zip since.

 

I think the reason is they are usually pretty young girl types and that kind of stereotype's you for roles.

It's alright for what it is.

I remember when it was released. I was 6 and I really wanted to see it, but I had to wait until it came out on video. I thought it was quite good. It's no masterpiece, but it's a great rainy night movie.

 

And I'm delighted there wasn't a crappy sequel.