| The Craft | | Cast : | Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell | | Director : | Andrew Fleming | | Studio : | Columbia Tri-Star | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | May 03, 1996 | | DVD Released Date : | September 12, 2000 | | Language : | Unknown (Dubbed), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), French (Subtitled), English (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), Thai (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 01, 2005 | | Summary | "You don't exist you are nothing" | Content
 | The craft is simply fun to watch but the real story here is the crap teens go through in high school and what we would love to do if we got caught in those problems and these girls do exactly what they want to do due to the fact that their witches and all. The movies starts out with each girls problem and then they use their power to change it at the end one of them gets out of control with power and only one can stop her.The movie is great to me and the amount of stuff that is on the dvd is pretty cool and so is the dvd menu. |
| Rating | | | Date | June 27, 2005 | | Summary | We're rating the movie, not the accuracy | Content
| Ok, I have just begun my practice of Wicca and I realize this film does not accurately portray Wicca but it is supposed to portray Witchcraft, which I believe it does (except for the rediculous things such as floating through the air etc.). Wicca and Witchcraft are not the same thing and therefore this movie accurately portrays witches because not all witches are Wiccan. It also shows just what can go wrong if one uses magic for harm. Ok, as for the movie part, regardless of its accuracy, I love this movie! |
| Rating | | | Date | May 11, 2005 | | Summary | Teaching witchcraft | Content
| Now, to be honest, I did not watch the WHOLE movie, but I saw enough.
From what I saw, this movie portrays magick and spellcasting quite accurately.
In one scene, the charecters cast the "Light as a feather, stiff as a board" spell. This spell is not fiction. It is real. How do I know? Because I researched magickal spells to an extent. Also, the witches in this movie curse people they don't like.
I cannot recommend this movie.
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| Rating | | | Date | May 10, 2005 | | Summary | A film to watch for years to come | Content
| I've loved this movie since I originally saw it on TV ages ago - and led me to believe it was censored for TV after watching it on DVD. I finally managed to get my hands on the "collectors" or "special" edition. Beware: it's neither. I'd expect the measly amount of extras on this to be on a standard DVD, but then I expect too much. Although the featurette is a lot more behind the scenes than film than is normal for featurettes, and lasts a lot longer too, Fairuza Balk and Neve Campbell are sadly missing from the recent interviews. It's obvious that they both appear on set being interviewed, whereas Robin Tunney and Rachel True both appear in more recent interviews, looking back on the film. So are Neve & Fairuza both too big to appear looking back at this, considering it's really the film that shot Neve to stardom? And I've never seen Fairuza in any other movie, although she's in Almost Famous, which I quite fancy.
Back to the movie. I grew up during difficult teenage years idolising Fairuza's character, Nancy in this. The black hair? Check. Lashings of black eyeliner & black mascara? Check. I love this girl! It would have been nice to see her in a recent interview, as she looks quite different now. And I love her outfits in the movie. Black is the new black.
Finally I realised what was wrong about this movie: Robin's hair! It was very fake looking & just too perfect at points, but I didn't realise until watching the featurette that she was wearing a wig, as she'd shaved off all that gorgeous hair for Empire Records. (And how much does she look like Kate Winslet during the featurette?)
I still remember being freaked out by the outstanding finale when I was younger. Maggots or some other horrid creature coming out the toilet? 3,000 snakes including pythons, boas, water snakes, garter snakes, rat snakes, a 10 foot Amazon constrictor and rare albino snakes just everywhere? Ugh!
I think anyone who practices Wicca or anything similar (something I know absolutely nothing about) might have a few not very nice things to say about this movie, as it can be quite stereotypical in its portrayal of 'witches'. I'm not meaning the pointed hats, noses, shoes, broomsticks etc, but people who are more experienced with this stuff could probably have done a better job with the magic bits of the movie. Cos of course a circle has corners.
This is definitely one of the movies to be seen, despite the questionable extras. It's certainly made me a lot more wary around so called 'special' editions. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 16, 2005 | | Summary | "MAN CREATED GOD. THIS IS OLDER THAN THAT." | Content
| How I'd love to recommend a movie with that line in it, but The Craft is simply not that well crafted. It's your average bubblegum teen angst flick about three vexing high school girls with Like Whatever accents and disheveled hair. The DVD promised wiccan horror, and it is probably a gallant effort for its measly budget, but nothing here really for anyone but standpat Buffy the Vampire Slayer fans. |
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