Horror fans we so used to seeing sequels to our favorite horror films however we are used to seeing the next installment to any horror franchise come out withing a few years of the previous installment. The film i'm going to review today bucks that trend by a long while since the original film came out in 1996 which means the film i'm reviewing today has come twenty four years later and so join me horror fans as I review "The Craft: Legacy" enjoy.
Now here I would normally summarize the plot of the film is well as give you my opinion on the story as a whole. That right there is the film's first and one of it's biggest issues because of the fact there's no story that means that we audience cannot connect to the story because the film isn't giving us a reason to connect to them which for any film is bad and for me that's a huge red flag and trust me it only gets worse from here.
Starring in the film is Cailee Spaeny as Lilith "Lily" ????? , Gideon Adlon as Frankie and Lovie Simone as Tabby. Also starring in the film is Zoey Luna as Lourdes , Michelle Monaghan as Helen , David Duchovny as Adam , Nicholas Galitzine as Timmy Andrews , Julian Grey as Abe , Donald MacLean Jr. as Isaiah , Hannah Gordon as Ashley , Chris Tomassetti as Jeremy and Charles Vandervaart as Jacob.
Wow is the acting in this film bad and when I say the acting in this film is bad I really freaking mean it since I cannot think of one single actor who turned in a solid performance. I can however think of one actor who is clearly doesn't give a damn and is just having the time of her life and that's Gideon Adlon as Frankie who gives a really over the top performance in every scene her character is in which to me makes her performance the most enjoyable because everyone else is just bland and wooden at there absolute best.
This film is so freaking woke it's unreal because not only are all the male characters in this film evil they even have a male character only turn good after he starts acting like your stereotypical woke person and since all the male characters in this film are treated as evil a lot of the female characters are portrayed as good. Honestly this really freaking annoyed the hell of me because it felt like they made being woke more important then making an actual good film with interesting characters and all of this was done to please a group of people who are never happy and s it's pointless to try and please them in the first place.
Now i'm not going to spoil anything from this terrible sequel but I will say that this film does feature a character from the 1996 original film. The character that appears was at first according to the Wikipedia page for The Craft: Legacy was due to be via archive footage which I can confirm isn't the case the character in question appears in newly filmed footage near the end of the film and he or she only appears in one scene.
Which trust me is a great thing because there's nothing in this film that would suggest that it's a sequel to a nearly twenty five year old film. However I will admit that the plot line leading up this characters reveal was really badly done since it was something that was never mentioned or even hinted at during the entire film infact this plot line which could have lasted an entire film only gets started in the film's third act and is over just as quickly as it begins and so to me it's clear as hell that they really wanted a character from the first film to appear but they already had the script written and thus didn't want to change that much of it and so they just added this plot line at the last minuet just so they could get one character from the original film in this film.
This film is one hour and thirty four minuets long which makes the film around five minuets shorter then the original. Which for me is a good thing because like I said this film has to plot to speak whatsoever and because of the fact that this film has no plot to speak of whatsoever the film oddly feels alot longer then it is and so I have to wonder why did the film need to be this long when it could and I honestly think should have been under an hour and twenty minuets because there's nothing in this film that requires a running time of nearly and hour and thirty five minuets.
I want it known that i've never seen the first The Craft film and the only bit of footage i've seen from that first film is from The Cinema Snob's latest review which is a review of the film. As such I cannot say how good the music is in that film but in this film may god do they have some cheesy as hell music playing over scenes in this film which honestly made me laugh because the music is so bad you can't help but laugh which ruins every bit of tension that the film tries to create.
This is classed as supernatural thriller and while it does indeed earn it's supernatural label it doesn't earn it's thriller name. Since there is nothing thrilling in this film whatsoever infact the film is more focused on being like bad show on The CW that it forgets to include actually good scares instead all we get are jump scares which is fine for one scare but when that's every single scare it starts to get boring after awhile.
Overall incase I haven't made it very clear yet I hate this film so freaking much that it's unreal it's a pointless sequel and it's film that didn't need to be made. Yes there are are a few good things in the film all of which i've sadly mentioned in this review but there are a lot more bad things alot of which i've covered in this review and i'm sure that you guys will find even more issues with the film then I did as such this film gets a 2.5 out of 10 from me.
All of the images that I used for this review were gathered from either Google Images of the official The Craft fandom wiki page. Just because this website had more images from the film I have no choice but to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from this film just because like I said Google Images have more of verity of images from the film and lot of those images are high quality which is something that I look for when i'm making a review and as always we end this review with our one true goddess Elvira wishing us all some very , very unpleasant dreams.
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