It's just like the original, but so much worse. The original is by no means perfect but at least the girls there had character arcs and motivations.
If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
So I watched this after some debate only because I don't really care for Remakes.
I have to say tho that looking at it from a non remake lens made things slightly better, I did like that the ending showed one of the witches from the first movie (the one that abused her powers and the others had Bind to *protect her). That to me made it feel different. Still not a great movie but but not bad, and adding the warlocks was a funny twist.
Yeahhh..... this was not good.....
I just got done watching this movie and it was fucking terrible no more remake :rage:
Such a woke cringe fest that doesn't even come close to how good the original was.
But it could have been worse...
I was happy to see Fairuza Balk at the end.
I enjoyed the original...more, but, in this one the three didn't spiral out of control, their hex didn't result in giving the guy mental illness, and they didn't turn their backs on the guy.
So, okay, you can argue the original had more tension. I think this one was healthier, AND had better emotional pay-offs.
Also, counterpoint to several other comments: Bad men, not all men. (Technically just one bad man.) Does anybody remember the adage, "absolute power corrupts absolutely?" And, what's wrong with having an external bad guy instead of infighting betwixt the wicken sisters?
I'm literally so disappointed. This movie is so whack. Even compared to the original film, which was NOT that good, and did not age well with horrible racist jokes, this movie is like 40 year old women trying to write teenagers. It's like fake woke and cringey as hell. And the pacing is so bad? We didn't have any bonding scenes until AFTER the girls had been saying their I-love-yous to each other. It was almost a direct copy of the first film's structure with none of the development. I can't even structure a coherent review for this.
Lily is a girl moving with her mum to a new city to live with her mum's new boo and his 3 sons. The first day of school, Lily has PCOS-levels of bleeding unexpectedly which embarrasses her as her male classmates harass her. She is rescued by the three girls who are always seen hanging out and they give her a pair of shorts. When she gets home she hears the screaming of a woman in distress and walks in on her middle step-brother watching violent pornography. Additonally her stepdad seems to write toxic masculinity novels about being a true man by crushing any emotional weakness.
The four witches have barely any development across the entire film and make gross out-dated references to movies that they wouldn't have even watched at their age. (Twilight.) The writer missed the memo that we're into Kpop now. How can you stan Twilight? The first magical instance they make a salt circle to keep the good magic in and anything evil outside; it is stated that this is necessary for their magic, however they never make a salt circle again - in face they barely even cast any spells. The next spell they cast is to make Tim in their image, implying that they use an old tissue ;) they find in his room. He ends up woke as fuck but like toxic woke - woke in ways that woke people don't talk. Like the writer skimmed the most toxic parts of twitter and decided to run with it. BTW one of the witches is trans, but it isn't even covered in a respectful way - like as part of developing her character - they just talk suddenly about being able to have babies and the character goes, I can't! and then says something like 'trans girls have their ways'? What the FUCK was that? That is not how you be inclusive.
Tim ends up being a really understanding and kind guy (I genuinely ended up liking him), but a weak misdirection in the plot fractures the girls' friendship. I felt like this was arguably the worst part of the movie, because there was SO much opportunity and so much evidence leading to the actual resolution of this plotline. The girls end up binding their own magic, but it can be so easily unbound what's the point in doing that? The villain doesn't really have much backstory either, to really explain why he's like that or his powers. Some cheap jump scares are used to misdirect the audience and are never ever touched on again; for example, the oldest brother's sleepwalking, Tim and the oldest brother having a sexual encounter. Why add all this information of you don't develop any of the characters that well? Additionally the volume between the normal scenes and Lily's prophetic dreams were of such a great difference that it was like being blasted with a wall of sound.
Tim used the ouija board wrong. The letters are the ones in the hole not that you point to...
In almost 30 years, CGI has seriously improved, but the final confrontation was a weird weak-ass chanting where the bad guy eventually burned in a fire under a tiny storm cloud with one lightning strike. None of the actors except the dad are famous - where did the budget go? In the original film they had a massive fight by the ocean in a storm or someshit. But we couldn't even manage a legit final confrontation? Even the shapeshifting looked shit. The father's backstory made no sense to me - where do his powers come from? We barely learnt anything about the world's version of witchcraft. It's like all these props were handed down - with the excuse being that the girls have been doing witchcraft for years. Uuughhh.
Do not watch.
The Craft: Legacy is like a lazy curse because you sit a spell and nothing happens.
The senior actors must have been very well paid to be part of this turd.
This movie sucks, would not recommend for anyone to watch it.
All I can say is... Why? WHY?
Well, it isn't the original. In fact, it feels like a sanitized version from the very start and has none of the fun I remember in the original. Not a bad film, but not living up to its elders, if you get my drift. Nice acting turns by the adults, David Duchovny and Michelle Monahan, make it better than it probably should have been.
how bad men are, a little witchcraft, a lot of adolescent nonsense, effects that neither those of Assylum, Duchovny way to cash a check, performances and script ufff
Y’all mad? :asterisk_symbol:snuck:asterisk_symbol: or Nah? I guess this really is a Lovecraft Country.
Why is it that an all female-led movie ALWAYS has to come down to the women beating down the bad, misogynistic man?
Sorority Row
Birds of Prey
This garbage
I'm for all female empowerment, but just because you have a cast like this doesn't mean you have to make it gender vs gender. Think of something better.
Also, this just wasn't a good movie.
A laughably bad story with a terrible score.
OMG, this is really not good.
Even if a bit fringe, the original was definitely a cult movie. An interesting story, with (pretty rare at the time) a main female cast, with feminist messaging, 4 main characters with their own stories, some pretty dark undertones as they struggle through discovering their powers, through their relationship with each other, and reflections on the abuse of power when they finally have to suffer the consequence of their actions.
Pretty much all that is gone.
The messaging is gone, totally flooded
The feminist messaging has been replaced by what can only be described as a woke-fishing fest. I mean, this is not a literal progressive messaging. This is a hastily put together caricature of what conservatives jokingly nicknamed woke. Every single thing you could think of has been thrown in there. Every single one. And it's not like it's treated as a subject or even part of the plot. At some point they don't even bother pretending it's even part of a conversation anymore, it's just a salvo of "he said this and that" so they can check the maximum items on the bingo list in the minimum of time. This is cringe to the max.
The characters are bland
They're barely defined. In the original they all had a story, a background, a personality, a trauma and a goal, a progression. Here there's a bit on Lily, obviously. Bu the other three ?
Does any of them has any background or story ? No.
A reason they pursue magic or a goal they want to attain with it ? No.
Did any change happen to them between the initial and final state of the story ? No (ok they managed to make they magic work, there's that, but character wise ?
Is there any point where any of the three say or do anything that is hers and would not be interchangeable with the others ? No.
Are they even all actually named at some point in the movie ? I don't think so.
They're "a group of three girls that do (try) magic", that's it. They have no other defining trait or personality or story or even independent thoughts.
(Of course you can distinguish them because one is visibly black (check), another one is ostensibly announced to be trans (check) out f nowhere, never to be spoken about again. At this point it's surprising that the third one doesn't have a tattoo saying "lesbian" on her face just to check another cell. But that ain't character building).
Their relationship is uninteresting
Actually, almost unexisting. In the original there were evolution and conflicts. Here what happens ? They're BFF instantly. At some point they (the uniform group of three) tell to Lily that she screwed up, and bind her powers for a good 3 minutes. Then BFF again. This is pathetic. But how could it be otherwise since the characters are not even defined ?
The magic storyline is not interesting either
There's no discovery, study, struggle or progression. They instantly freeze time, so what can stop them after that. They then are instantly able to wildly use their powers without any limits or consequences up to defeating a probably much more experienced warlock.
There are literally no consequences to anything
But again, consequences ? What's this word ? Adam is dead. Any remorse at killing a human ? Nope.
He was famous. Does his disappearance have any consequences ? Nope. What about his sons ? Do they know what happened ? Did they know what he was ? Were they part of it ? How do they handle they father's death ? How do they live on (one was a small child) ? Who the hell cares ? They're men, let's just forget and pretend they never even existed.
The darkness is gone
The danger of power and its abuse (and backfire) was an important and serious theme in the original. Here there are never any consequences to their abuse. You think there is some (Timmy's death) but ooof, no, that was all the bad man's fault in the end.
And obviously, they don't fight each other since 3 of them are basically the same entity and it's all happening in a marshmallow painted carebear world.
And we come to that. If your characters are all blank pages and have no meaningful interaction, how do you have anything happen in your movie ? Well, introduce an external antagonist. Actually having a warlock as antagonist is a great idea. At least he has more personality than the 3 witches. Sadly, he is an evil misogynistic masculinist first and only a warlock second. And at this point you're like come on !
So that's it for the strictly cinematic review. This is really a sad, tasteless, woke-washed, carebear remake of the original.
But I still want to go back to a subject. When I say all the darkness is gone, well, this is how it is presented. But if you think for a second, let's consider Timmy's situation, and the completely ignored theme of the ethics of what has been done to him.On the surface they supposedly turn the guy into "his better self". but that's not what happens. They turn him into their puppet, a plot device to mindlessly parrot woke doctrines to check the bingo card and behaving only as they want him to. If you think about it, they literally wiped his mind clean to fill it with what they wanted. This is an evil act of epic proportions.
And if you think that's not what happened, just think about it. He could have been turned into a better person, be less of an asshole, be able to see that this or that social construct might be wrong. But is that what happened ? Yeah, it's kinda funny when he starts questioning stuff, but unless he also spent his first turned night scouring the internet for all these doctrines and words he probably never heard of before, these are clearly not words out of his mind, it is out of their minds.
So starting from there, is anything he's saying or doing even real ? It's clearly presented as him becoming his true self, but that is
Are the even the stories about his mother and his coming out as bisexual genuine or rather just the fantasies they wanted to make him into: more vulnerable and so, likeable, in their ideal image ?
Suddenly, just "being a good guy", means he basically only wants to spend his time with them, disregarding his previous life, and spilling to them his most intimate secrets after two days ? How likely is that ?
Also knowing who he was hanging out with (and possibly how dangerous it was), shouldn't he be at least a bit more careful in his grandstanding and new interactions ? Unless... they didn't know about it, and so it has been wiped clean from his mind and is not present in their rewritten version of him.
And to top it off, it seems not even death has been able to free him from their hold.
So how dark, evil and sickening is that ?
What a waste. A lot of this movie is just garbage. But in this garbage you can see what the movie could have been.
I made the mistake of watching this one right after watching the original again, wow. This was not good. I think they were planning another movie with the cameo at the end but I think this bombed so hard , they might second guess that decision
It wasn’t bad but it was underdeveloped.
We should have been able to get to know the characters better and also how is this a movie about magic and yet we don’t get to see them awakening, learning and practicing their magic enough. It seems like there was a lot of meat missing in this movie.
It could have been so much better but they give us underdeveloped characters and a thin story.
Good but could have been so much better.
Insipid. Too childish. Predictable and expendable.
Biggest pile of woke sjw bull-crap I've seen this year, what a load of boring god awful shit this is. Never should have been made.
I seen some woke shit before really....really really terrible woke shit before but this dumpster fire
Takes it to a hole new level of bad. I thought it was a parody at so many part's because I thought it couldn't be that bad, but nope they were dead serious. I cringed my way through the hole painful affair. This was sod all to do with the original and the best, do not be fooled, they only use the craft name to pull you in and insult your intelligence big time.
It's nothing but woke Lefty agenda ballocks from start to finish, it made absolutely no sense and the ending is ridiculous,
Do not waste your time with this peace of crap.
I thought nothing could be more sjw-woke
Than Blumhouse
Black Christmas which to woke Agenda to a hole nother level and believe me that was bad in your face sjw bull-crap but the this peace of crap comes along and takes 1st place for the worst movie I've ever seen in my life and believe me I've seen a Hella of a lot.
I thought it was a joke it was that bad, and that woke,
This and black Christmas you need to avoid at all cost, please do not view if you value your brain cells
Jesus I wish I could unsee it but sadly I can't get enough bleach over my brain to erase it.
1H 50m of my life I am never going to get back,
Never had to grind so hard to get to the end of a movie.
This movie made a trip to the dentist to have all your teeth pulled without pain relief, seem like a trip to Disney land.
-10/10
Theirs only 1
THE CRAFT movie and that one is awesome, stick with that and avoid this shit fest
At all cost.
"Fcucking Diabolical"
The original is better. That being said, I'm always up for new movies with witches.
Even though it's a sequel and the OG is grittier as 90s is, I didn't expect it to be super dark
IMO things that would've made it better is:
- if the magic wasn't so easy like super powers right away,
but, this could have worked if it was done with a different director ultimately.
the storyline was good, it was how it was cut and directed that cheapened it and would have made the difference in vibe of the film
- something they should not have done was use magical visual effects like different colours and sparkles
the main actress is a great actor
Nothing special, a very loose continuation of the original. Mulder didn't help either.
Oh good lord, what did I just watch ? I watched the original and then this movie. The attempts to keep true to the original script is there but wow, the acting is 3/10 and has more of a teenage musical vibe than powerful witches.
Blumhouse muck ups yet another property with The Craft: Legacy. A sequel/reboot, the story follows a teenage girl who moves to a new town and falls in with a clique of witches at her school, completing their circle of four and allowing them to take their powers to the next level. While the plot is pretty similar to the original, the themes are all wrong; nothing about balance, the corrupting influence of power, white vs. black magic. Instead it opts to attack masculinity and glorify witchcraft. Also, the storytelling is bad; doing a piss-poor job at creating conflict and suspense, and the villain is especially weak. And, none of the actors have anywhere near the charisma of the original cast. A mess of a film, The Craft: Legacy fails to live up to its predecessor.
This was basically one giant political ad disguised as a remake of a cult favourite from the 90s. It was tame, bland and full of eye roll moments.
Much of the plot was similar to the original so this wasn't any sort of legacy, it was a crummy remake. But instead of revenge on a bully or healing of a childhood accident, they take a bizarre turn into wokeness.
Instead of taking any sort of revenge on a bully, they perform a spell to......make him a nice person. yeah.....
During this period of wokeness, this now nice guy comes out as homosexual, tries to correct gender terms, is stereotypically portrayed as a "girlfriend" type to the group (which was sort of hypocritical to what I believe they were trying achieve) and then he suddenly dies.
The stepfather is evil, and as much as I love Mulder, this role was laughable.
I'm not entirely sure this was ever going to knock it out if the ball park, even if it stayed true to the original but there were so many plot holes and random ness, zero character development, a lot of characters that served zero purpose, it felt like when it got the the 3/4 mark, they realized they needed to wrap this up and blamed the step dad. Characters whose actions contributed to the story had no screen time. like, im talking ZERO. So many questions unanswered but I would pay to NOT see any sequel to this if it ever happens.
I am very surprised this is a Blumhouse production. I expected better
not seen the original for about 10 years, so no enjoyment memories to sully the watch.
it felt like it was on for 45 minutes, that's the best thing I can say about it. (maybe a spell was cast to make me forget)
many, many, many problems.
Typical teen fare and similar to a TV pilot. Its watchable but lets get one thing straight. Witchcraft is real, its dark, and its dangerous. Dont let this movie make u think otherwise.
Didn't hate it to be honest, imagine though never to have seen the original to watch it after this.
This was mediocre at best. If I remember correctly - the original wasn't much better - but I'd recommend re-watching the original tha watching this.
There really wasn't much horror in this. There wasn't even much story in this. The whole movie felt more like a prologue to the actual movie which we then did not get to watch.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
This was mediocre at best. If I remember correctly - the original wasn't much better - but I'd recommend re-watching the original tha watching this.
There really wasn't much horror in this. There wasn't even much story in this. The whole movie felt more like a prologue to the actual movie which we then did not get to watch.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
I liked it. A bit bland but still entertaining. Had Netflix produced it with Millie Bobby Brown, it would be a bigger hit. Perfect movie for their audience.
My jaw literally dropped by the final scene.
Some cornier parts but overall the movie was pretty good. Runs along with the original.
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This needs to be a series.