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I’m not quite sure what to say about this movie, but I’m going to say that it’s certainly not on my list of movies that I love. In some ways, it is very much like The Craft except with four boys instead of four girls and spiders instead of snakes. Also, the source of the threat comes from the outside of the group of our magic users instead of inside the group.

Apparently it was based off of a comic book, which doesn’t really surprise me at all considering the nature of the movie. Also a lot of the movie was full of cliches, what with all the things dealing with the Salem Witch Hunts and such. No offense, but really, it just reinforces in people’s minds, particularly Wiccans, of the “Burning Times” when the people killed during those periods weren’t burned, but hanged (at least in Salem) and weren’t actually witches. Burning was used for heretics mostly. One thing that would’ve amused me though is if instead of doing “contemporary authors”, they did 20th century authors and made a reference to Arthur Miller, the writer of The Crucible as a nod to the Salem Witch Trials.

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