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I have rewritten the plot summary to be more concise. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.178.20.107 (talk) 12:30, 27 August 2011 (UTC)
on the siouxsie sioux page it says she has appeared in this movie...can anyone tell me exactly where she has appeared?
According to IMDB she was not in The Craft.
Curious when Discussion pages became review forums... Let's stick to providing information about the film. Everyone's going to have an opinion, but Wikipedia's about facts, not opinions. It's not really about people's experience in witchcraft, either (not even the unsigned troll 'very vool' up there). - Adaru 15:31, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
If anyone is willing to help i would like to upgrade the page a bit in hopes of getting it above stub quality status, although in my opinion it already is, i realise that yes it does need a lot more work to be a great page, and i hope that we all aspire to making the pages here on wikipedia great. Grey witch 21:55, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
Well most wiki sites for movies contain a plot summary that usually has one part that is extended and explains the entire story summarised. Perhaps also a list of scenes containing spells and another list of scenes containing special effects as in the commentary on the dvd it is mentioned that they worked up to bigger and better special effects as the movie progressed. Also it might help to mention that the crew hired a witch to advise them on the actual reality of witchcraft, i believe her name was Pat Devon but i could be wrong. Thank you for offering to help. Grey witch 00:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
I do have the dvd so sure i can do that part. Do you have any things that you would like to add to the page? Grey witch 00:49, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:44, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to remove the bit about this movie having a huge impact on people dressing "goth" until a citation is provided. It was common for people to dress in this fashion long before The Craft. Winona Ryder sported a gothic look in Beetlejuice (1988), and bands like The Cure and Siouxie and the Banshees have been around more than a decade before The Craft became popular. In fact, when making Addams Family, Christina Ricci was directed to act like Ryder in Beetlejuice when creating her role as Wednesday Addams - probably the quintessential goth kid. (LOL)
I'm not doubting people copied the film, but that hardly validates saying it was culturally significant, especially since the style existed before, after and separately from the film. It would be like saying Boyz In The Hood popularized people dressing "ghetto" - just because some people had never been exposed to goth culture doesn't mean it suddenly became mainstream with The Craft. BubbaStrangelove (talk) 11:03, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
For real, someone please source where The Craft had a significant impact in goth becoming mainstream. It didn't. Maybe in middle America, or the sticks, but goth was popular in the late-80s and early-90s. The Craft wouldn't have been as popular as it was, arguably not even made, had there already not been a mainstream acceptance of goth culture. The Cure's album WISH hit #2 on the US Billboard charts (#1 in the UK) back in 1992. The movie didn't make goth culture popular for the MTV generation - shows on MTV like Alternative Nation, or 120 Minutes where they played videos by the likes of The Bauhaus - those are what brought it into the mainstream, along with "gothic" styled films from the likes of Tim Burton.
As I said in my earlier attempt to discuss this, I know the movie influenced some teenagers, and for many people it was their first exposure to goth culture, but that's hardly a significant population. Are we going to argue that people influenced by The Craft outnumber fans influenced by every goth-styled band, movie, or book that existed prior to The Craft? They generally don't make mainstream teen-oriented movies about topics that aren't already popular to some extent. BubbaStrangelove (talk) 16:14, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
The following is unsourced information:
While this is interesting, we can't use it unless you provide a source. Also, none of this is really trivia, as trivia by its definition is "unimportant information" - it therefore shouldn't be in a trivia section but instead the information should be incorporated into the main article. - Tbsdy lives (formerly Ta bu shi da yu) talk 02:42, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
Who's Chloe Cross and why would anyone care? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.21.25.254 (talk) 11:01, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
I am removing this paragraph-"The film employed state-of-the-art special effects, presenting gothic fashion and pagan behavior to the MTV Generation in an attractive package. Through this exposure, many teenage viewers gained an interest in witchcraft/paganism, and especially Wicca." That paragraph reads like promo material from studio. It also has no references to back it up. I am pretty sure "gothic fashion" was around before the movie,in fact I know it was with bands in the 1980's, like The Cure etc. And the part about "Through this exposure, many teenage viewers gained an interest in witchcraft/paganism, and especially Wicca." has no sources at all. I mean hasn't witch craft and Wicca been around before 1996 when this movie came out?--70.149.147.210 (talk) 04:19, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I am also removing this-"The musical group Love Spit Love recorded the song "How Soon Is Now?" which was originally sung by 80s music group The Smiths, for the film. Two years later, the WB television series Charmed was created, also centered on young witches in San Francisco, and used the same song for its theme song. On the DVD commentary, the director wryly comments on this, stating of Aaron Spelling, producer of Charmed, that "you've got to give the man credit for originality".
The are no sources for any of this so I am removing it. Next someone will say Sabrina the Teenage Witch was influenced by this film. --70.149.147.210 (talk) 04:22, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
The character descriptions for Nancy and Bonne are reversed. In the beach scene, Nancy invokes the power of air, while Bonnie invokes the power of fire. I've edited the article accordingly. --TwilightDuality (talk) 04:51, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
Actually, the invocations were mistakenly reversed in the film. The special features on the DVD give Nancy's element as Fire and Bonnie's as Air. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.224.47.236 (talk) 22:42, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
no mention of the silly TV show, "Charmed" and it's obvious rip off of the Craft, right down to the theme song?76.19.63.222 (talk) 21:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC) Michael Christian