In 1996, after the grunge fever started to vanish and before the goth and emo subculture began to be the new thing for teenagers around the world thanks to the influence of cultural icons like Marilyn Manson, a small teen horror movie became an instant classic for a generation of youngsters in the search of an alternative identity in order to overcome the always complicated high school years.
Released on May 3, 1996, directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, and Rachel True, The Craft (1996)’s plot centers on a group of four outcast teenage girls at a fictional Los Angeles parochial high school who pursue witchcraft for their own gain. But soon encounter negative repercussions, which prove to be the ruin of one of them and a harsh learning experience for the other three, according to the Rule of Three of Wicca, which states that one’s actions, whether positive or negative, return to the actor threefold.
Although the movie has always been present in teenage underground circuits it is true that it being over 20 years old it might not connect as well with the new generations. That is why Blumhouse has teamed-up with Sony Pictures Entertainment to produce a new The Craft movie. It is not a remake, as some voices raised in the past weeks, but a sequel set 20 years after the original. New characters, new situations, and eventually some connections with The Craft (1996).
Andrew Fleming, the director of the original film, won’t be returning for this sequel. Leigh Janiak was originally set to write and direct the new movie back in 2016 when its development was first announced, but it’s been finally actress and filmmaker Zoe Lister-Jones who is finally chosen to take those duties. Filming is scheduled to begin in July 2019.
For all of you with weak memory, or too young to be a teenager back in the far 1996s, watch here the official trailer of the original The Craft (1996):
