Goth Chick News: The Craft Gets a Surprise Sequel
We here at Goth Chick News would normally begin this time of year doing two things: checking out what’s new on the local haunted attraction scene, and spending hours in a darkened theater taking in the new seasonal offerings. However, as we explained last week, Halloween seems very well positioned to reinvent itself amidst the B-movie plotline we’re current living in, and the horror film scene is no exception. Though streaming services are busy dropping or about to drop quite a lot to be excited about (Ratched, The Haunting of Bly Manor, Lovecraft Country), it takes my horror-film-director-crush to show up bearing the epitome of surprise Halloween treats.
Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Production announced this week that they have been sneakily working on a sequel to the 1996 cult favorite The Craft, schedule to drop directly to your living room this month. “We’re thrilled that our partners at Sony Pictures are looking at the landscape opportunistically this Halloween, for audiences to watch at home in the U.S.,” Blum said in a statement.
Entitled The Craft: Legacy, the story is a continuation of the original, with a new cabal of girls experimenting with supernatural powers. Here’s the official synopsis.