Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie
Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.
Staci Frederick Blistering performances.
tbills2 The Craft is a movie starring 4 (epically super cute) girls that in no way should be misconstrued as a chick flick, because, I'm a dude, and I love The Craft. It's honestly 1 of my favorite movies. It's exactly the type of film I'm into. It happens to be about witchcraft, but that's just the backdrop. The story focuses on young Sarah (the insatiably cute Robin Tunney) and her 3 teenage girl friends, Nancy (the perfectly cute-faced Fairuza Balk), Bonnie (the spiritually and physically adorably cute Neve Campbell), and Rochelle (the crazy sensually cute Rachel True) whom are all far more than just your typical high schoolers worshiping the occult (spoiler alert) - they're witches! I love The Craft so much. It speaks from the heart as well as any movie you'll find. I would love to be with each one of this super sweet woman. I love Robin in this and End of Days and Empire Records and The In-Laws and Supernova and Vertical Limit and Encino Man and Open Window. I love Fairuza in this and The Waterboy and American History X and The Island of Dr. Moreau and Almost Famous and Valmont and Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead and Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I love Neve in this and Scream and Wild Things and Scream 2 and 54 and Drowning Mona and Three to Tango and Scream 3 and When Will I Be Loved and I Really Hate My Job and Scream 4. I love Rachel in this and Half Baked and Embrace of the Vampire and CB4 and New Best Friend and The Perfect Holiday. I looooove Rachel, Christine 2, but Robin's the prettiest. The supernatural 'light as a feather stiff as a board' scene is vintage '90s.
argento6 Director Andrew Fleming was not a familiar name in the middle nineties in my case. But later on I watched his first feature horror film starring a young Jennifer Rubin, BAD DREAMS (1988). Fleming never became one of my interests but let' say that THE CRAFT, released in 1996 is one of these things that caught my attention as a young teenager. And this is another one of those "like it or Leave it" kind of film, among tons of other cheesy teen films released during that era. I loved it and still like it to this day. Even more, it is probably one of my favorite gems of this genre and decade. Thanks to the actresses.Sarah (Robin Tunney) is a young girl that doesn't seem to fit in. That until she moves with her father from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, where she learns in private school, that she isn't the only one in her situation. She soon starts hanging out with three other rejects. Believed to be gifted with the ability to perform magic, the girls are looking for a fourth member to complete their circle. But what Sarah soon learns is that not everything is grey in the heart of a true witch.With THE CRAFT, Fleming and Peter Filardi managed to come up with a pretty fun pop-corn film and dug up a beautiful and fascinating cast of actresses. Most of all, the fourth were able to make us believe that they were both very thigh together and that they were convincing teenagers despite the eight years that separates the elder from the youngest. Neve Campbell did good in her first feature film in Hollywood as the shy Bonnie, a character which suits Campbell like a glove since I rarely have seen her playing a fierce, determined woman or a crazy with such convincing talent. It's a shame that we haven't seen a lot of Robin Tunney and/or Rachel True in theaters or commercial films afterwards. But I do Tunney's turn in the disappointing End of Days with Gabriel Byrne and Arnold Scharz… Hum, he's five times mister universe and the terminator you know who I'm talking about. Back to Tunney, I thought she played a commendable version of the Heroine à la Bella from Twilight (I will endure comparison but I hated the first film and couldn't bare watching the sequels.) And last but not least, there's Fairuza Balk, in the role of Nancy Downs. She looks way shorter than the others but never let it show throughout the film. She even manages to carry it on her shoulders for the most part, portraying a sometimes candid, other times unstable leader. And if she goes as far as to make some parts a caricature. She also bursts through the screen and that kind of performance in that particular flick is more than welcome in my opinion. She takes a lot of space that she's granted with from the crew I'm sure. The problem is that she may have made that particular character way bigger than she'll ever be in real life. (This is The Joker vs Batman when the Prince of crime is involved in an episode against the dark knight and never the other way around after all). If this is far from my favorite performance of hers, this is surely one to watch.But going deeper than the casting alone, THE CRAFT shows thousands of flaws. Because the writer(s) may have wanted to make it a cool fiction about witchcraft, without turning it into a joke, one thing must be hard to do when you are writing a story for teenagers, involving teenagers and you want to see it granted a PG13. That it managed to get itself an R rate is beyond me. Let alone the subject. There are a couple curse words here and there but that's about it. Let's get back to the serious(?) of the thing shall we? It seems Fairuza Balk was really into Gothic and Wicca at the time, she even did a lot of research about it in order to perfect her part. Still, she ironically plays the character that ended up with the most ridiculous holes in development. How come she has the means to go to private school and own the uniform if she's as poor as the poorest people alive in the first place? Still, who cares for character development for this one. I had a lot of fun. Another brain freeze is a scene involving the four ladies and sea animals. That scene was so irritating; I wonder how they decided to keep that instead of one of the few cheesy bits that we can see as cut scenes on the DVD's extras.But, if only for the fact that it might have given girls of my time a little or too much confidence sometimes and if only for the fact that the lovely Fairuza Balk ended up with all the best lines and shots. She often sports demonstrative and crazy eyes, yet there are also great close ups of those piercing blue gems of hers. And for a use of CG that was kept to a minimum, exploiting special effects in a subtle, yet intriguing way, never turning the scenes into the ridiculousness that it could have been if it ended up looking like an annoying cartoon, I think it deserves one viewing.And with the amount of talks about a remake, I don't know. Yes, I'd just forget about it. But can they still make this one better? Despite how much I like it, I think yes. But boy, I don't want to see forgettable names such as Kristen Stewart and Rooney Mara in the lead roles! And if they happen to find an actress as great to look creepy and as crazy as Fairuza can act, I'd say why not? Go for it.
Irishchatter I wanted to watch this film because Halloween is coming up so I was like, why not try watch it now and might as well get deep inside into the world of witchcraft. However this film wasn't exciting as I would hoped! It just didn't really give me what I wanted like the story slipped straight away when Sarah left the group and the other three girls became such physios into killing her. I mean woah woah woah, what in the world is freaking going on here? This isn't what should happen for god sake, what were they thinking of just mes the story? I honestly thought this was gonna be a good film but no, I was wrong! I'm so disappointed, this movie left me disappointed!
mr-mvriley The Craft is one of my favorite movies partly because of my interest in the supernatural and because growing up I use to be very interested in witchcraft. This movie has something that almost any teen can relate to. Seriously, what teen hasn't been bullied, tried changing their looks to make them more beautiful, thought about committing suicide, had relationship problems, or lived in an unstable or poor family environment? Another thing that is great about this movie and makes it different from most other witch movies I have seen is that a lot of the rituals and spells are based on actual Wiccan rites and practices. I think the moral of story says something about power and control and the basic principle that whatever you send out into the world comes back to you. For example, if you send out negative energy, you will get negative energy back and if you send out positive energy you will get positive energy back. The Craft is a creepy, suspenseful blend of the supernatural and teen drama that will captivate you. One of my all time favorites. Watch it, it will not disappoint!
