The witch club

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Movie
German title The witch club
Original title The Craft
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Andrew Fleming
script Andrew Fleming,
Peter Filardi
production Douglas Wick
music Graeme Revell
camera Alexander Gruszynski
cut Jeff Freeman
occupation

The Craft is a horror film from the year 1996 by Andrew Fleming , who is about the witchcraft of four teenagers. The film opened in German cinemas on July 4, 1996.

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When Sarah moves to Los Angeles with her father after attempting suicide, she feels lonely there. The only people interested in her at her new school are Chris and three girls who are decried as witches . Since Sarah has to experience that Chris is only taking advantage of his friends, she approaches Nancy, Bonnie and Rochelle. It turns out that they are experimenting with magical practices. Sarah has never dealt with the occult , but she is naturally magical. It completes the circle of witches, and on an excursion into nature, the four witches swear allegiance to each other during a ritual with a blood oath.

From now on they are inseparable, try out different spells and gain self-confidence through magic . The dark-skinned Rochelle counters the racist hostility of her conceited classmate Laura Lizzie by letting her hair go out. Sarah casts a love spell on Chris, which she has now fallen for. Bonnie miraculously gets rid of her burn scars that put a lot of strain on her. Nancy, who grew up in a broken home, unexpectedly comes out of the poverty trap with life insurance money when her hated, lewd stepfather dies. It is never quite clear whether the changes are based on magic or are just coincidences. For example, Bonnie's bad scars were treated with a new type of gene therapy, which could also lead to success.

Unfortunately, the magic is not without consequences, since everything you send out comes back to you three times. This is told to the girls by an experienced witch who runs a magic shop in town. Chris is so fixated on Sarah that in his madness of being close to her, he tries to rape her. When Nancy hears about it, she wants revenge on him out of jealousy of Sarah. Because when she used to be with Chris, he dropped her. A ritual on the beach made Nancy very powerful. She takes Sarah's form at a party, has sex with him, and kills him by throwing him out of a window when the other girls arrive.

After this act it is clear to Sarah that Nancy will stop at nothing and that it cannot go on like this. Nancy has to lose her magic before anything else happens, so Sarah tries to use magic to dispel Nancy's powers. That fails because Nancy is already too powerful. She absolutely wants to keep her strength; Bonnie and Rochelle stick with her. The conflict is inevitable, Nancy now wants to get Sarah out of the way too. The owner of the magic shop stands by Sarah; she becomes a surrogate mother since Sarah's real mother was killed in birth.

Nancy tricked Sarah into believing that her father died in a plane crash only to drive her into suicide again. She also terrorizes Sarah with pictures of snakes, rats and other monsters, which causes them to panic. It comes to a showdown between Nancy and Sarah, who have a terrible magical fight. Bonnie and Rochelle flee. Sarah develops unimagined power and defeats Nancy. In the final scene of the film it becomes clear that of all four women only Sarah has real, magical powers because her mother was a (good) witch. Bonnie, Rochelle and Nancy only had magical powers as long as Sarah was a member of the Witches Club. Some time after Sarah left the Circle, the other three lost their powers.

Reviews

  • “At the beginning of the film I quickly missed a zap control. Only when I felt some maggots and worms in my popcorn bag and cockroaches crawled between my feet did I register to be in the cinema. Cinema has to do with magic, this film not. ”
    Georg Gaigl at artechock.de
  • “If only he was really angry. With all the horror and the decent entertainment, it is annoying - besides the main actress - that Der Hexenclub is good and moral. ”
    Günter H. Jekubzik on filmtabs.de
  • “There is a lot of finger pointing in this film, and so despite the sophisticated production design, spectacular genre effects and accurate soundtracks, Der Hexenclub looks more like the professionally illustrated brochure of a state commissioner for sectarian issues.”
    Martin Schwickert on ultimo online

Awards

MTV Movie Awards 1997

  • MTV Movie Award in the Best Fight Scene category for Fairuza Balk and Robin Tunney

Saturn Award 1997

  • Nomination in the category Best Horror Film
  • Nomination in the category Best Actress for Fairuza Balk

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