The Craft (film)
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| Directed by | Andrew Fleming |
| Produced by | Ginny Nugent Lisa Tornell David Wick |
| Written by | Andrew Fleming Peter Filardi |
| Starring | Robin Tunney Fairuza Balk Neve Campbell Rachel True Skeet Ulrich Assumpta Serna |
| Music by | Graeme Revell |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | May 3, 1996 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $15,000,000 |
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The Craft is a 1996 movie directed by Andrew Fleming about a girl who moves to Los Angeles, California from San Francisco, California and meets three friends who teach her about the world of witchcraft. As they become more adept at witchcraft, they experience good fortune, and put curses on their enemies. Sarah, played by Robin Tunney, becomes increasingly separated from the other three girls, and soon finds that her best friends can become her worst enemies. Sarah later discovers that her late mother was a powerful white witch, and unlike the other girls, she has the inherent gift of witchcraft herself.
Tag Line: Welcome to the witching hour.
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[edit] Main Cast
- Robin Tunney — Sarah Bailey
- Fairuza Balk — Nancy Downs
- Neve Campbell — Bonnie
- Rachel True — Rochelle
- Skeet Ulrich — Chris Hooker
[edit] Impact on Pop Culture
The film employed state-of-the-art special effects, presenting "gothic fashion" and pagan behavior to the MTV Generation in an attractive package. Through this exposure, many teenage viewers gained an interest in witchcraft/paganism, and especially Wicca. Though some of the interest waned, the movie helped lesser known religions come into the spotlight for a time. Although The Craft is fictional, some of its background details are based on actual neo-pagan beliefs and practices.
[edit] Trivia
- The musical group Love Spit Love recorded the song "How Soon Is Now?" which was originally sung by 80's music group The Smiths, for the film. Two years later, the WB television series Charmed was created, also centered on young witches, and used the same song for its theme song. On the DVD commentary, the director wryly comments on this, stating of Aaron Spelling, producer of Charmed, that "you've got to give the man credit for originality".
- Neve Campbell and Skeet Ulrich would again work side by side in Scream, which was released later that year.
- During the climax of the movie, over 3,000 live snakes were used, including: pythons, boa constrictors, water snakes, garter snakes, rat snakes, a 10-foot (3.0 m) Amazon constrictor, and even rare albino snakes.
- Originally the film was going to include the trailer for The Lost World: Jurassic Park; however, it preceded the film's release by a year and 20 days.
- Domestic Total Gross: $24,819,936
- According to BoxOfficeMojo.com, The Craft is the 7th highest grossing movie since 1980 dealing with the genre of witches.[1]
- All of the actresses playing teenagers were far past teenage years at the time. Rachel True was almost 30 years old.
- In order to illustrate nature's intrusion on life, the director tried to incorporate nature into every shot with random branches, trees and vines.
- The surnames of the two main characters (Sarah and Nancy) are combined to create the fictional location of the film Ginger Snaps ("Bailey Downs").
- A straight-to-DVD sequel is currently in the works. [2]
