The Craft: Legacy is a featherlight reboot to a dark cult addiction

Peg Aloi
8 min readOct 28, 2020
Cailee Spaeny in The Craft: Legacy

The cultural impact of the 1996 horror-thriller The Craft goes far beyond its status as a cool femme-goth paean to mid-1990s fashion and music. It even goes beyond its seemingly timeless camp appeal, which proliferates in memes all over social media, in part due to Fairuza Balk’s tour de force performance. The screenplay, co-written by director Andrew Fleming and Peter…

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Peg Aloi

The Media Witch is a multi-faceted writer, mainly a film/TV critic. She’s also a tree-hugging weirdo and badass bitch with a nice head o' hair.