Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Lack of good storyline.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Even for the mid-'90's, it's lame. The best that I can make of this film is that teen girls might like it for the catty behavior or lesbian 'girl crush' over-tones. Other than that, it's not worth watching. Cable networks show it at least once a month, and I don't know why, unless for the guys still in love with Neve Campbell. If she walked around half naked in the film, at least young men could've gotten on board, but this film isn't scary anymore than 'Twilight' was. Don't waste your two hours. Much like other films and paranormal show episodes dealing with girls experimenting with witchcraft. Fairuza Balk did do a good job with the lame script she was handed, and she stole the show.

Neve Campbell stars in the craft. A crossover of mean girls and American horror story coven. This is about a group of 4 witches who are best friends who go to high school but soon the three go against one of the girls who dose quite not have her power yet and it's all because of the ring sort of leader Faruiza Bake and so she decides to get revenge. I watched this on Sony channel,I wasn't expecting to watch it I just turned it on,I was with my friend and my sister at the time who were sleeping over,we all loved the movie especially me. I really loved this film,it wasn't cheesy,it was a good girl on girl horror comedy(sort of comedy). The rest of the cast were brilliantly picked,it is from the director of threesome(1994) which I have been wanting to watch for a while but can't find it on DVD. I did see it once in a supermarket for like €7:00 but never bought it,now it's really hard to find.

Lots of hotties and action in this witch movie. I rated it a 9/10 due to it has great actresses in it and overall movie was well done. As far as Witch movies go, this one is one of my favorites. There are others out there that are good, but this one is right up there with them. IMHO.Like I mentioned, the four actresses are very good. The plot is good. It's about a girl who makes friends and soon they discover they are Witches. They use their powers for good and bad. Some can handle it and some can't. Conflict arises, as expected, and fights ensue. Good overall movie. Worth a watch. Jim W

Director Andrew Fleming was not a familiar name in the middle nineties in my case. But later on I watched his first feature horror film starring a young Jennifer Rubin, BAD DREAMS (1988). Fleming never became one of my interests but let' say that THE CRAFT, released in 1996 is one of these things that caught my attention as a young teenager. And this is another one of those "like it or Leave it" kind of film, among tons of other cheesy teen films released during that era. I loved it and still like it to this day. Even more, it is probably one of my favorite gems of this genre and decade. Thanks to the actresses.Sarah (Robin Tunney) is a young girl that doesn't seem to fit in. That until she moves with her father from San Fransisco to Los Angeles, where she learns in private school, that she isn't the only one in her situation. She soon starts hanging out with three other rejects. Believed to be gifted with the ability to perform magic, the girls are looking for a fourth member to complete their circle. But what Sarah soon learns is that not everything is grey in the heart of a true witch.With THE CRAFT, Fleming and Peter Filardi managed to come up with a pretty fun pop-corn film and dug up a beautiful and fascinating cast of actresses. Most of all, the fourth were able to make us believe that they were both very thigh together and that they were convincing teenagers despite the eight years that separates the elder from the youngest. Neve Campbell did good in her first feature film in Hollywood as the shy Bonnie, a character which suits Campbell like a glove since I rarely have seen her playing a fierce, determined woman or a crazy with such convincing talent. It's a shame that we haven't seen a lot of Robin Tunney and/or Rachel True in theaters or commercial films afterwards. But I do remember Tunney's turn in the disappointing End of Days with Gabriel Byrne and Arnold Scharz… Hum, he's five times mister universe and the terminator you know who I'm talking about. Back to Tunney, I thought she played a commendable version of the Heroine à la Bella from Twilight (I will endure comparison but I hated the first film and couldn't bare watching the sequels.) And last but not least, there's Fairuza Balk, in the role of Nancy Downs. She looks way shorter than the others but never let it show throughout the film. She even manages to carry it on her shoulders for the most part, portraying a sometimes candid, other times unstable leader. And if she goes as far as to make some parts a caricature. She also bursts through the screen and that kind of performance in that particular flick is more than welcome in my opinion. She takes a lot of space that she's granted with from the crew I'm sure. The problem is that she may have made that particular character way bigger than she'll ever be in real life. (This is The Joker vs Batman when the Prince of crime is involved in an episode against the dark knight and never the other way around after all). If this is far from my favorite performance of hers, this is surely one to watch.But going deeper than the casting alone, THE CRAFT shows thousands of flaws. Because the writer(s) may have wanted to make it a cool fiction about witchcraft, without turning it into a joke, one thing must be hard to do when you are writing a story for teenagers, involving teenagers and you want to see it granted a PG13. That it managed to get itself an R rate is beyond me. Let alone the subject. There are a couple curse words here and there but that's about it. Let's get back to the serious(?) of the thing shall we? It seems Fairuza Balk was really into Gothic and Wicca at the time, she even did a lot of research about it in order to perfect her part. Still, she ironically plays the character that ended up with the most ridiculous holes in development. How come she has the means to go to private school and own the uniform if she's as poor as the poorest people alive in the first place? Still, who cares for character development for this one. I had a lot of fun. Another brain freeze is a scene involving the four ladies and sea animals. That scene was so irritating; I wonder how they decided to keep that instead of one of the few cheesy bits that we can see as cut scenes on the DVD's extras.But, if only for the fact that it might have given girls of my time a little or too much confidence sometimes and if only for the fact that the lovely Fairuza Balk ended up with all the best lines and shots. She often sports demonstrative and crazy eyes, yet there are also great close ups of those piercing blue gems of hers. And for a use of CG that was kept to a minimum, exploiting special effects in a subtle, yet intriguing way, never turning the scenes into the ridiculousness that it could have been if it ended up looking like an annoying cartoon, I think it deserves one viewing.And with the amount of talks about a remake, I don't know. Yes, I'd just forget about it. But can they still make this one better? Despite how much I like it, I think yes. But boy, I don't want to see forgettable names such as Kristen Stewart and Rooney Mara in the lead roles! And if they happen to find an actress as great to look creepy and as crazy as Fairuza can act, I'd say why not? Go for it.