Hello again, dear listeners. How very apropos to theme that today is my third blog post for you all. 🔮
I’d like to start today’s post off by wishing all my fellow ~spooky folk~ a very happy October! This is my absolute favourite month (if it wasn’t obvious from the… uh… bats and combat boots in my page header?) so I hope y’all are ready for 4 weeks of Halloween Hyperfixation Posts with Luna. What more could you ask for?
On to today’s topic! Please allow me to set the mood, and indulge me if you would, by taking a listen to this song as you read this week. I promise you won’t regret it.
Ahh… The Craft.
This is a movie near and dear to my heart, listeners, and I’m by no means coming into this review unbiased. However, it has been many years (we’re talking more than a decade, people!) since my last watch, so I can promise that I’m writing with a fresh memory and a fresh set of eyes.
The Craft (1996) is the quintessential coming-of-age story, with some supernatural spice added in and some truly classic ’90s flavour. Yes, this movie is about witchcraft, and spells, and magic. But at its core, this is a movie about struggling to find your place and meaning in life.
Allow me a slight cliché here as I toss a quote at you:
“Hell is a teenage girl.” – Needy Lesnicky, Jennifer’s Body (2009)
The Craft covers so many of the bases of what makes high school and adolescence truly hellish. From learning to navigate mental health struggles, to feeling alone and ostracized by your peers, to intense friendships that inevitably blow up in your face because, well… you’re all 16 years old and full of anger at the world.
(If you ever had that close-knit friend group in high school that only ever had the OPTION of going south, you know exactly what I mean.)
Now, imagine taking all the anger you felt at the world, your peers and yourself… and adding witchcraft and magic to that. Now THAT is a powder keg waiting to blow!
Starring Skeet Ulrich and Neve Campbell of Scream (1996) fame, The Craft came out in the peak of alternative/supernatural pop culture (to put it in perspective for you, this was the era that brought us the cult classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer!), and has truly stood the test of time.
I’d be hard-pressed to name a contemporary movie I think has 30+ years of staying power the way this movie does. And hey, it’s on Netflix!
So, listeners. If you’ve gotten this far… go watch it already!
And don’t let me talk about Buffy next week.
– Luna
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