Revisiting The Craft 23 Years Later
How well does the movie hold up?
I was already past my occult/witchcraft phase when The Craft originally came out in 1996. But I still watched it with interest. I wanted it to show witches in a way that wasn’t stereotypical, which they did.
Keep in mind that The Craft came out long before Harry Potter caught on and made wizards and witches cool.
And up until then, witches were traditionally portrayed in movies and on television as pointy-hatted, warty old women who lived alone (or in threes) or with a cat. (I’m looking at you, Hocus Pocus. Way to perpetuate stereotypes, Disney!)
Witches often had unnaturally green skin, something that never made sense to me. Did they fall in toxic waste then turn to magick to stay alive? Or just have really bad skin conditions? This was never explained.
And most witches were mean to children and all around bad people (were they bad because they had skin issues? think about that, Disney!), with few exceptions like bubblegum sweet Bewitched and Sabrina the Teenage Witch.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, incidentally, came out the same year as…
