It begins with troubled 17-year-old Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney), a teenage girl who has previously attempted suicide , has just moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles with her father (Cliff De Young) and stepmother . She starts her senior year in a new school , as Sarah enrolls in a local Catholic high-school, St. Benedict's Academy , but has trouble fitting in. She witnesses her classmate Bonnie (Neve Campbell) telekinetically causing a pencil to rotate while standing on its tip . During lunch, Sarah is hit on by Chris (Skeet Ulrich) , the school's football star. She asks about Bonnie and her two friends Nancy (Fairuza Balk) and Rochelle (Rachel True). The three young girls have an edgy, weird and rebellious reputation at the school . Sarah takes up with the three rebel girls who like to dabble in witchery . These black magic women begin slinging spells at their uppity classmates , but they are in need of a fourth to complete their enpowered circle . The school is a hothouse full of resentment, hurt and conflict and the girls' experiments in spellcraft are regarded as deliciously dangerous excursions into adolescent self-discovery. To carry out the witchery they read the text of the book "Invocation of the Spirit" in the magic shop , it comes from "The Book of Ceremonial Magic" by Arthur Edward Waite, a well-known occultist. Welcome to the Witching Hour !.
A tale of supernatural L. A. high school jinks featuring three members of a teenage coven , then a newcomer arrives in the Catholic prep high school and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. Works best when concentrating on the girls and their problems , but degenerates into special effects toward the end . There are some nice set-pieces , including a magical release of butterflies and a disturbing dream sequence , but the end opts disappointingly for standard horror house effects . With special mention for some scenes involved using over 3,000 snakes, including pythons, boas, water snakes, rat snakes, garter snakes, a 10-foot Amazon constrictor, and even rare albino snakes . There's a lot of rookie actress to be followed notorious cinematic careers , such as : Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Neve Campbell , Rachel True, Christine Taylor . All of the very young actresses were in their twenties at the time of filming , even Rachel True was almost 30 years old. Holly Marie Combs had been cast for Bonnie/Neve Campbell role , but due to another cinematographic commitment she was replaced , but Holly would eventually star in Charmed (1998), the successful and extended TV series also about witches that bears remarkable resemblance to The Craft (1996) . And adding some young actors as Skeet Ulrich , Breckin Meyer and veteran ones as Cliff De Young , Assumpta Serna and Helen Shaver.
It displays a thrilling and suspenseful musical score by composer Graeme Revell . As well as colorful and evocative cinematography by Alexander Gruszynski . The motion picture was professionally directed by Andrew Fleming , though overlong and it has some flaws and gaps . Fleming is a fine craftsman known for The Craft (1996), Barefoot (2014) , Hamlet 2 (2008) and his first film was another decent terror film titled Bad Dreams (1988) . Rating : 5.5/10 , acceptable and passable. The pic will appeal to Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Neve Campbell fans.
A tale of supernatural L. A. high school jinks featuring three members of a teenage coven , then a newcomer arrives in the Catholic prep high school and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them. Works best when concentrating on the girls and their problems , but degenerates into special effects toward the end . There are some nice set-pieces , including a magical release of butterflies and a disturbing dream sequence , but the end opts disappointingly for standard horror house effects . With special mention for some scenes involved using over 3,000 snakes, including pythons, boas, water snakes, rat snakes, garter snakes, a 10-foot Amazon constrictor, and even rare albino snakes . There's a lot of rookie actress to be followed notorious cinematic careers , such as : Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Neve Campbell , Rachel True, Christine Taylor . All of the very young actresses were in their twenties at the time of filming , even Rachel True was almost 30 years old. Holly Marie Combs had been cast for Bonnie/Neve Campbell role , but due to another cinematographic commitment she was replaced , but Holly would eventually star in Charmed (1998), the successful and extended TV series also about witches that bears remarkable resemblance to The Craft (1996) . And adding some young actors as Skeet Ulrich , Breckin Meyer and veteran ones as Cliff De Young , Assumpta Serna and Helen Shaver.
It displays a thrilling and suspenseful musical score by composer Graeme Revell . As well as colorful and evocative cinematography by Alexander Gruszynski . The motion picture was professionally directed by Andrew Fleming , though overlong and it has some flaws and gaps . Fleming is a fine craftsman known for The Craft (1996), Barefoot (2014) , Hamlet 2 (2008) and his first film was another decent terror film titled Bad Dreams (1988) . Rating : 5.5/10 , acceptable and passable. The pic will appeal to Robin Tunney , Fairuza Balk , Neve Campbell fans.