The Craft: Legacy

The Craft: Legacy is a 2020 horror film. It is a sequel/soft reboot of the 1996 film The Craft.

Plot
A group of high school students form a coven of witches.

Why It Should Be Bound From Doing Harm

 * 1) Like Black Christmas (2019), the movie tries really hard to be "woke", particularly in the movie's final act:
 * 2) * The characters frequently drop SJW buzzwords.
 * 3) * The main villain of the movie is an unsubtle misogynist who murders a bisexual boy for being "weak". Beyond that, he has no real depth.
 * 4) * There's a rather bizarre scene where the girls use their magic on a bully, and he suddenly becomes "woke".
 * 5) The film cannot decide whether it wants to be a remake or a sequel nor can it decide whether to be the same or different than the first film.
 * 6) Sarah, Bonnie, and Rochelle from the original film are never mentioned nor shown.
 * 7) The film was released 24 years after the original film was released which is too late to make a sequel.
 * 8) The filmmakers deleted an alternate opening scene which shows Lourdes's grandma seeing into the future and blood on an egg which would've fit nicely into the film's genre being horror.
 * 9) The film barely has any originality, as it is an extremely lazy rehash of the first film. Both the first film and this film tell the story of a teenage witch who befriends three witches and forms a coven.
 * 10) False advertising: One of the DVD covers shows Lily floating which never happens in the film. It also shows a pentagram with a cow skull on the same cover which also never appears in the film.
 * 11) The character of Lourdes's grandma was originally planned for the film and was originally going to be Lourdes's legal guardian and taught her and the girls magic such as aura reading but the grandma character was deleted.
 * 12) Unlike the original film, the magic barely resembles the religion of Wicca and occultism and feels more in the vein of fairy tales and modern fantasy works which does not fit a film set in the same universe as the original which portrayed witchcraft and Wicca more realistically.
 * 13) The jumpscare of Lily walking in on her stepbrother watching pornography as well as another jumpscare of her other stepbrother sleepwalking in her bedroom are pointless.
 * 14) Some scenes and elements are ripped-off from the original;
 * 15) *The opening scene shows the three main characters trying to cast a spell using a table with candles and pentacle and then cutting to a slideshow of occultic imagery and the title card which is in front of the sky the same way the first film does.
 * 16) *The main girls walks in slow motion the same way the coven in the first film does.
 * 17) *There is a similar montage of the girls practicing magic the way there also is in the first film.
 * 18) *The girls play light as a feather, stiff as board the way the original group of girls do.
 * 19) *The film ends with Nancy Downs from the first movie being in an asylum visited by Lily which is a reverse of the original ending where Nancy is committed to an asylum.
 * 20) *One of the film's posters rips-off the first film's poster as it shows Lily, Tabby, Frankie and Lourdes with lightning behind them identically to how the first film's poster shows Nancy, Sarah, Bonnie, and Rochelle with lightning behind them.
 * 21) Some of the new characters introduced in this film are knock-offs of the major characters from the first film;
 * 22) *Lily is an unoriginal protagonist as she is a bland copy of Sarah from the first film despite being Nancy's daughter and not Sarah's. She acts exactly like Sarah as she is a witch born with her magic who has a phobia of snakes who moves to a new town/school and befriends three girls interested in witchcraft and completes their coven. She also puts a love spell on a guy she likes the same way Sarah puts a love spell on her crush Chris Hooker in the original movie. Lily also has visions of snakes the way Sarah from the first film does.
 * 23) *The teenage coven in general are uninteresting copies from the first film as they are meant to be outcasts interested in the religion Wicca the way the original coven was in the first film.
 * 24) *Timmy is a rip-off of Chris Hooker from the first film as he is a misogynistic bully who has a love spell placed on him by the protagonist, then dies, and starts the main conflict of the film just like Chris Hooker in the first film.
 * 25) *Tabby is a rip-off of Rochelle from the first film as she is the only black girl in the coven of witches identically the way Rochelle was in the first film.
 * 26) There's a lot of plot points that appear to be ripped from the 2019 Black Christmas film.
 * 27) Lily's adoptive mother, Helen Schechner, is an unlikable character as she allows Lily to drink alcohol which is underage drinking and child endangerment. She also never told Lily she was adopted.
 * 28) Overreliance on jump scares that do not show anything scary.
 * 29) Unlike the original movie, the characters here are all bland and have no real development. We never really know any of their backstory, so we can't really care about them.
 * 30) Also unlike the original movie, there's not much magic used.
 * 31) The movie feels really rushed:
 * 32) *There are loads of plot holes and things that are just never really explained such as the reason of Nancy giving up Lily for adoption is never explained.
 * 33) *A number of subplots are brought up and then never resolved.
 * 34) For a horror movie, there's not much scary, and it feels more like a teen drama.
 * 35) Cheap and unconvincing special effects.
 * 36) The ending is abrupt.
 * 37) Overall, the movie just lacks the tone and cult charm of the original film.
 * 1) Overall, the movie just lacks the tone and cult charm of the original film.

Magical Qualities

 * 1) Fairuza Balk makes a cameo at the end playing Nancy from the original film.
 * 2) The idea of a story focused around Nancy's daughter is an interesting idea.
 * 3) There is a scene where Manon, the god worshipped by the Sarah, Bonnie, Rochelle, and Nancy from the original film is mentioned.
 * 4) There are some scenes of magic being used that bear resemblance to Wicca and occultism (the filmmakers consulted real Wiccans to make the magic look realistic just like the first films filmmakers) such as the use of the lyrics from the chant The Earth, the Air, the Fire, the Water in one ritual scene, The Wiccan deities The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone used in another ritual scene, as well as the end credits showing occult symbols fits perfectly in a film set in the same universe as the original which portrayed witchcraft and Wicca realistically.
 * 5) Some of the horror elements are creepy such as Timmy's ghost using a Ouija board to tell Frankie, Tabby, and Lourdes of his death.
 * 6) Some scenes of magic can be beautiful to watch as they involve bright colors.
 * 7) The film pays respect to its predecessor.

Reception
Reviews were mixed to negative, with a 47% critic rating and 32% audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

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