The Craft
101 minutes,
USA (1996), 15
Average user rating 
(4.7 / 53 votes)
(4.7 / 53 votes)
Enjoyably daft high school spookfest with subversive aspirations. Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell are among four bitchy witches who take revenge on their vacuous, racist and wealth-obsessed classmates
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The Craft Review
Enjoyably daft high school spookfest with subversive aspirations. Robin Tunney and Neve Campbell are among four bitchy witches who take revenge on their vacuous, racist and wealth-obsessed classmates
Threesome director Fleming turns his attention from sex to death in a good looking, effects-laden supernatural drama pitched somewhere between Heathers and Melrose Place.
Sarah (Tunney) is the rich girl with issues who starts at a new school in LA. There she hooks up with Bonnie, Nancy and Rochelle, (Campbell, Balk and True) a trio of goth misfits dubbed the Bitches of Eastwick. The four girls form a coven and discover that collectively they're capable of casting spells that really work. These start off as innocent exercises in self-improvement. But Nancy soon gets out of hand and before long she's a telekinetic ball of murderous teenage angst.
Balk clearly relishes her role as a malevolent minx, casting spells to make the school's blonde bitch bald and hitting on Sarah's dream guy Chris (Ulrich). Towards the end however director Fleming seems to lose both his nerve and his grip, ditching the satire and punishing his heroine. Sensitive Smiths fans should also be aware that Love Spit Love contribute a truly criminal cover of "How Soon Is Now?"
Sarah (Tunney) is the rich girl with issues who starts at a new school in LA. There she hooks up with Bonnie, Nancy and Rochelle, (Campbell, Balk and True) a trio of goth misfits dubbed the Bitches of Eastwick. The four girls form a coven and discover that collectively they're capable of casting spells that really work. These start off as innocent exercises in self-improvement. But Nancy soon gets out of hand and before long she's a telekinetic ball of murderous teenage angst.
Balk clearly relishes her role as a malevolent minx, casting spells to make the school's blonde bitch bald and hitting on Sarah's dream guy Chris (Ulrich). Towards the end however director Fleming seems to lose both his nerve and his grip, ditching the satire and punishing his heroine. Sensitive Smiths fans should also be aware that Love Spit Love contribute a truly criminal cover of "How Soon Is Now?"
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