We put them in these costumes that were kind of goth-y. That was my premise: What if those witchcraft girls in high school dressed like they were in The Cure? I just had this idea that they should have a punk element. At that point, goth wasn’t really a thing.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-craft-oral-history_n_5734f7c9e4b060aa7819d362

[OP’s note: it WAS really a thing, just these Hollywood types weren’t aware of it.]

cross-posted from: [email protected] btw they’re having a “halloween-a-thon” there fulla seasonal movies, you should check it out!

What if the high-school goth kids REALLY WERE witches? That’s the premise of this mid-90s movie that had the same kinda effect on some people as “The Crow”. Personally in the early 00s I had a small carefully-curated collection of like 5-6 DVDs that I physically owned, and this was one of them.

Don’t get the witches mad at ya!

hashtag Nancy did nothing wrong!

for more info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Craft_(film)

  • SergioOPEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Thanks for the tip, looks like Lords of Illusion is free at Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/546980/clive-barker-s-lord-of-illusions (uBlock Origin adblocker seems to work on it too.)

    Yeah, The Craft is definitely a time-and-place kinda thing. I think it was kinda like the “Wednesday” miniseries is nowadays in introducing kids to the idea of “dark culture” and maybe some people look into it deeper. And The Craft was made before Buffy and Hunger Games etc and back then they weren’t really thinking of making things for YA girls/women. But it’s still an imperfect though entertaining movie, and Fairuza Balk in particular did an outstanding job.

    • Hermit_LailokenMEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Good points, I would rather their intro to dark culture be Wednesday.

      I am working on my culture snobbery, lol.