The Craft (film)

The Craft (film)

The Craft is a 1996 American supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming. It stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True. The film was released on May 3, 1996, by Columbia Pictures. A soft rebootsequel, The Craft: Legacy, is released on October 28, 2020.

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Summary The Craft (film)The Craft is a 1996 American supernatural horror film directed by Andrew Fleming. It stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True. The film was released on May 3, 1996, by Columbia Pictures. It was a surprise hit, earning USD 6. 7 million in its opening weekend and USD 55. 6 million worldwide, against a budget of USD 15 million. In the years since its release, the film has gained a cult following. A soft rebootsequel, The Craft: Legacy, is released on October 28, 2020. It follows four outcast teenage girls at a Los Angeles parochial high school who pursue witchcraft for their own gain and subsequently experience negative repercussions. The final scene, Nancy has been committed to a psychiatric hospital, stripped of her powers and strapped to a bed as she insists she can fly as she can only fly with her hands tied behind her back. It is shown that Sarah must have lost her powers too; Sarah then makes a tree fall on them and nearly falls on them as she desperately tries to fly with them. The girls eventually defeat her and find their powers have gone and that Manon had taken away their powers after they abused them and mutilated them. They then try to induce her to commit suicide, and Nancy cuts Sarah’s wrists herself. Although initially terrified, Sarah successfully invokes the spirit of Manon and is able to heal herself and fight off the glamours of Bonnie and Rochelle showing them her face scarred by their glamour.

The movie ends on a cliffhanger, with Nancy telling Sarah that she is the right girl to complete their coven as \”the fourth\”, making them all powerful. It also reveals that Sarah has attempted suicide in the past, and the coven turns on Sarah. It ends with Sarah being able to fight back and defeat the girls and finding their powers gone, preventing her from causing her to harm them forever, and finding her and Nancy finding their power and finding each other again. It then goes on to be released on Blu-ray and DVD on November 14, 2012. The DVD has a bonus feature that shows the girls casting a love spell on the popular Chris Hooker, who becomes infatuated with Sarah, and causes her to lose her hair like Laura Lizzie, a racist bully. It has also been shown that the girls have cast a revenge spell on Laura, causing Laura to be traumatized by her baldness and sobbing hysterically. The films ends with Nancy and Sarah trying to reconcile, but Sarah is unable to do so. It becomes obvious that Nancy has unrequited feelings for Chris, and she uses her power to kill him by throwing him out of a window. After a date with Chris, Sarah is upset to find that he has spread a false rumor that they had sex and she was terrible in bed. Nancy causes her stepfather to have a heart attack and die.