The I want to be the boom of the

the postmodern horror film.

These were frothy glossy movies about pop culture savvy characters

always played by the hottest teen stars plucks from television shows like

Party of Five and the films were always accompanied by the coolest contemporary soundtracks.

The film responsible for this 90s boom was of course Wes Craven's Scream, a 1996 film and one of the most influential films of the decade.

However, another teen-centric horror movie was released a few months earlier than Scream, and it starred many of the same actors and adopted many of the same stylistic elements that made this wave of horror so popular. But rather than being a conventional slasher as most of these

films were, it was an occult movie about a coven of teen witches at an American

Catholic high school. The craft was a sleeper hit performing moderately at the box office but over time

increased in popularity. Now 25 years on, it's a film that's aged substantially better than many of its

90s contemporaries and is often considered one of the most beloved and one of the best witch movies ever made.

I bind you Nancy from doing harm.

I'm against other people and harm against yourself.

I bind you.

Join me as we continue exploring the evolution of the occult and we delve back into the world of 90s teen horror.

Look at me, look at me! I'm leather-faced!

Welcome back to the evolution of horror. My name is Mike and as ever I am your host. If you're tuning in for the first time then welcome in this

podcast we explore and dissect the evolution and history of the horror genre by looking at

particular sub-jomras one series at a time. We are currently in the middle of

exploring the evolution of the occult in horror cinema and this is part 16. As the intro suggested it's

90s teen movie week our main discussion will be about Andrew Fleming's The

Craft from 1996 however we are saving a little bit of room to discuss Idle Hands

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