Craft: Legacy, The

USA 2020, 90 minutes
Dir. Zoe Lister Jones
Rating: [M] Adult themes
Genres: Horror, Drama / Girl-centric, Youth, Fantasy

Topics: Halloween-friendly.

Feat. Cailee Spaeny, Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone, Zoey Luna, Nicholas Galitzine, Michelle Monaghan, David Duchovny, Fairuza Balk

“An entertaining and insightful mashup of tropes, both respectful of what came before and willing to try new tricks. Being a weirdo, it seems, has never gone out of fashion.”~Kate Erbland, IndieWire

Aroview: Sequel to the 1996 film THE CRAFT, following four high school students who form a coven of witches.

After the original's all-male creative team unwittingly provided a generation of girls with something like a feminist power fantasy, this "soft reboot" 24 years later sees it's protagonists less angsty and more comfortably empowered from the start, with that gothic edge replaced by a gentler and more compassionate take on the occult lifestyle. Still, it's a heady brew full of timely themes around social, sexual and political justice, with a diverse cast of young women. A charming take on the adolescent experience.