Just in time for Halloween season to begin, the first look at the long-awaited sequel for The Craft has arrived.
The Craft: Legacy follows up on the events of the original 1996 cult classic. Actress Cailee Spaeny plays Hannah, a young woman who relocates to a new town and a new school and who immediately finds herself on the outside of the school’s social cliques. After a Carrie-esque moment in class, she finds herself befriended by three other young women (played by Gideon Adlon, Lovie Simone and Zoey Luna), who invite her to join their coven of witches. A reluctant Hannah agrees, and the four women begin to manifest incredible powers of magic.
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The Craft: Legacy both continues and echos the events of the original film, albeit in a somewhat post-modern way. A few lines of dialogue and the broad plot strokes recall the original, though the trailer also establishes that the new movie takes place in the same continuity as the original. And, much as with the original film by gay writer/director Andrew Fleming, the new version from writer/director Zoe Lister-Jones includes a healthy dose of the homoerotic. Whereas the original had a tongue-in-cheek camp sensibility to it, however, this sequel indulges in the sexual tension between the film’s four young protagonists.
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iminheatlikeacat
Long-anticipated? By who? Every comment I’ve seen has been negative and people are perplexed as to why this is being remade because certainly nobody was asking or clamouring for it.
DarkZephyr
I didn’t expect a sequel but I am not mad about there being one. I loved the original as did hordes of other people.
DarkZephyr
Every time Queerty puts “gay” in the headline I expect it to be about gay males but I keep forgetting that in the last year or two Queerty has let “lesbian” drop from their vocabulary and just says “gay” now. So the movie will be *lesbo*-erotic with female same sex themes and no male ones. Got it.
Catholicslutbox
Not even.
Nothing about this movie screams “gay,” of any sort, except for the offensive form of the word. As in, it sucks.
rray63
Hi DarkZ, the movie made just under 25m, worldwide, don’t know how that translates into hordes seeing it…
man5996853
@rray63 It actually made close to 60 million worldwide on a budget of 15 million, which would be considered successful today and was considered hugely successful in 1996. And, in 1996, the average movie ticket cost less than $5. Considering the 56+ million haul, it does, in fact, translate to hordes seeing it.
While I don’t really see the need for what appears to be more a re-make than anything else, I am a fan of accurate information that can be obtained by a very simple and quick google search.
DarkZephyr
@rray63, I’m not sure where you got your info (you also responded to the wrong comment), but as man5996853 pointed out, you are WAY off. In addition to his points, you also seem to forget a few other interesting inventions, such as cable TV, Dish, DVDs, BluRays and online streaming (c’mon Dude, its been on Netflix, that fact alone has given hordes access to it). What I am saying here is that beyond the number of people who saw it in the theaters (and again as man5996853 pointed out, it was hordes, the film was a sleeper hit), others saw it on TV, optical disk or they streamed it. It was a HIGHLY successful film, it made nearly 4 times its budget and it inspired an entire 90s phenomena of Neo-Paganism. Its a cult classic. The reviews were mixed, but the people loved it. Movie critics are usually out of touch with what people actually like anyway.
jjose712
I really liked the first movie, but frankly there’s nothing gay on the trailer
jayceecook
This is exactly what a Party City version of The Craft would look like. Just another studio trying to cash in on nostalgia. I’m not opposed to a sequel…if this were the late 90s. But it’s almost 2021. There’s no need for this.
Cam
“The Craft: Legacy both continues and echos the events of the original film,”
Echos?? The plotline (Girl moves to new town, is an outsider, exhibits powers, joins outcast clique) is the literal plot of the first movie.
“the new version from writer/director Zoe Lister-Jones includes a healthy dose of the homoerotic.”
Aaahhhhh, homoerotic, the old Hollywood term when nothing LGBTQ happens but they want to trick us into thinking something does.
UlfRaynor
Absolutely correct, it’s movie’s like this that inspired the term queerbaiting.
Hard pass for me.
jayceecook
Echo: a close parallel or repetition of an idea, feeling, style, or event.
b) a detail or characteristic that is suggestive of something else.
c) an imitation or repetition
d) to repeat a quality or situation
If one thing echoes another, the first is a copy of a particular detail or feature of the other.