The Craft: Legacy

The Craft: Legacy

6/11/2020 1h 34m 6.1/10

Overview

An eclectic foursome of aspiring teenage witches get more than they bargained for as they lean into their newfound powers.

Director

Zoe Lister-Jones

Top Billed Cast

Cailee Spaeny

Cailee Spaeny

Lily

Michelle Monaghan

Michelle Monaghan

Helen

Lovie Simone

Lovie Simone

Tabby

David Duchovny

David Duchovny

Adam

Gideon Adlon

Gideon Adlon

Frankie

Zoey Luna

Zoey Luna

Lourdes

Reviews

MongoLloyd

4/2/2021

1/10

Sigh... not that I expected anything that equaled the original The Craft even partially, this is an insult to decades of pre-woke era American culture. Sensitivity and tolerance notwithstanding, this is thematically and aesthetically a major step down from the original film and urinates all over the legacy of that classic contribution to American cinema. Most glaring from a visual standpoint is casting of the 4 leads, a double wide boy posing as a girl(!?), a girl who looks like a boy, a legitimately ugly girl, and (at least) a beautiful descendant of the kings and queens of Africa. Why, pray tell would they deviate from the original formulation of alluring and powerful imagery of 4 uniquely beautiful young women and give us THAT mess instead? Because beauty is more than skin deep? Because inner beauty is more important? Because everyone is beautiful? Not quite. Beauty is just beauty, and they decided to leave it out of this film for the most part. Adding to the insult of this present day lesson in how to wokefy the sequel of a classic film, they decided to make every masculine character, evil. Great message.

CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

3/27/2022

5/10

Yikes, well there's not much point in gilding the lily - this is dreadful. A sort of elongated episode of "Buffy", written by someone who has little, if any, grasp of how to construct a suspenseful story and directed with the same level of skill. It reminded me of female equivalent of "The Covenant" (2006) and what David Duchovny is doing here is anyone's guess. In my view, it's well out of it's depth getting a cinema release at all - it's a pretty pointless exercise on just about every count that belongs on daytime teen television.

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