Episode #797: The Craft (with Angelica Jade Bastién)
Added 2025-04-29 04:00:11 +0000 UTC“This is just a collection of mediocre covers.” - Chris on the soundtrack
On this week’s episode, the gang’s under the spell of the mid-90’s witchcraft cult classic, The Craft, chatting about the flick with long-time friend of the show, Angelica Jade Bastién! Does this movie get better with each viewing? Couldn’t the script have added a little more of Cliff De Young’s character (for Eric)? How great is Snake Guy and his exit from the film? And did anyone care about that legacy sequel? PLUS: Should Charles Xavier take these girls under his wing?
The Craft stars Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk, Neve Campbell, Rachel True, Christine Taylor, Breckin Meyer, Nathaniel Marston, Cliff De Young, Assumpta Serna, and Skeet Ulrich as Chris Hooker; directed by Andrew Fleming.
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Original cover art by Felipe Sobreiro.
Comments
the We Hate Movies School of Fingering is an all-time diversion
TJ Guiney
2025-05-01 22:50:03 +0000 UTCAngelica is a great guest every time
Arthur Cunningham
2025-04-30 23:55:10 +0000 UTCLoving the bad French accent, keep it up, boys
Arthur Cunningham
2025-04-30 23:54:34 +0000 UTC"People doin' AI, now I gotta have a maggot toilet." I mean...that made perfect sense to me. Do I have Eric Brain Disease?!
Rose Esposito
2025-04-30 22:14:02 +0000 UTCI watched every dang episode of Graceland and Covert Affairs. Anyone else? No? Okay.
Rose Esposito
2025-04-30 22:13:02 +0000 UTCGet Cliff DeYoung back shitting in major movies you cowards! You're telling me he can't shit in the new thunderbolts film? Come on!
Jason
2025-04-30 16:44:32 +0000 UTCDS9 forever!
TDB
2025-04-30 16:41:30 +0000 UTCManons with the best escargot exclusively at The Gettin' Place
DMAC
2025-04-30 13:04:15 +0000 UTCWell, it’s not quite worthy of a mailbag but I have travelled in developing countries where, at least on one occasion, we pulled over for a bathroom break and the rural toilet actually did have maggots in it.
Craig
2025-04-30 13:04:08 +0000 UTCI loved Steve's Manon voice so much! It made me laugh every time!
Tony King
2025-04-30 11:05:51 +0000 UTCI knew there would be wig talk in this BUT CHRIST you can literally see exactly where it’s glued to her head, man😭 Hair and Makeup did NOT GAF!
nadia
2025-04-30 04:12:44 +0000 UTCLots of Neo-pagan people here in Salem MA, so there’s big love for Witchcore movies. Hoping they’ll play The Craft at the local indie theater at Halloween this year. Great to hear AJB back as guest. This is a new fav of mine now, with Teen Witch and The Shining. You guys need to do the original English movie from 1972-The Wicker Man, brought to you by Hammer films
Catboyslim
2025-04-30 01:03:10 +0000 UTCI was also a weird black girl who was shaped by this movie so I understand completely where Angelica is coming from. the pubes line hits too close to home though. I remember watching this at a sleepover and we all agreed they needed to jump her!
Alex Charles
2025-04-29 22:56:58 +0000 UTCI don’t think I’ve ever heard an episode with her before, but she was amazing!!!
Amber Schumacher
2025-04-29 20:52:23 +0000 UTCThis was a great ep, love the ones w Angelica. Great time.
Brandon
2025-04-29 20:45:39 +0000 UTCCliff DeYoung also shits his pants in The Substitute when Tom Berenger choke slams him against a wall.
duck of death
2025-04-29 20:24:23 +0000 UTCNumber 2 sit in the back with tarot her power also involves stuff you would find in a junk draw.
Mark D Myers
2025-04-29 19:54:45 +0000 UTCStiff as a board sums up my adolescent experience with this one.
Alexander Trattner
2025-04-29 18:42:05 +0000 UTCThat pubic hair line hits too close to home 😅 my grandpa called me his nappy headed grandson (he's white). He's since evolved, thankfully.
Ray
2025-04-29 18:35:21 +0000 UTCOh man back to school would be a great themed month for them.
Lar
2025-04-29 18:32:31 +0000 UTCI agree they should have left a lot of stuff in (or filmed it in the first place?) but unfortunately I think a lot of ideas y’all had for this movie ended up being in The Covenant instead. Murders, car crashes, etc etc. Is that a good movie? Not at all. But it had some violence and Sebastian Stan kissing our lead on the mouth for some reason. Bless.
Lar
2025-04-29 18:30:44 +0000 UTCIt’s not “gene” therapy, it’s “jean therapy,” they were using the same sewing machine they use to make jeans.
Gone
2025-04-29 18:14:42 +0000 UTCNot sure why it took me so long to realize I fucking despise Breckin Meyer
RJ Cunningham
2025-04-29 16:57:03 +0000 UTCI am the only person here to say that Shock Treatment really isn’t that bad. It’s another weird music cult film with a main role for Jessica Harper, who took over the role of Janet, and Arrow did a nicely lush release of it a few years ago.
Kevin Matthews
2025-04-29 16:52:54 +0000 UTCThis, the David Lynch nightmare fish theatre story, the Spider-Man parade balloon, the Spawn-abduction, the "get nahshty on the phone" story. Steve needs to publish a memoire of these.
Matt
2025-04-29 16:39:16 +0000 UTCIt would've been cool if Christine Taylor's character slowly turned into Chris Elliott's character in Scary Movie 2.
Daryl Williams
2025-04-29 16:06:45 +0000 UTCMaybe 1943, but that's obv not a beat em up.
MarkNM
2025-04-29 15:58:25 +0000 UTCIf his hatred for Breckin started after the movie 54, I completely understand.
MarkNM
2025-04-29 15:53:57 +0000 UTCI think Angelica is probably my favorite guest. 2nd place is Mrs. Jupin. Every episode featuring either of them are ones I can repeatedly listen to. Angelica is amazing. Tell her I said so. Andrew, I know you read these lol
Jonathan Lyons
2025-04-29 15:36:58 +0000 UTCThe X-Men talk in this episode is funny because that re-quel movie from 2020 totally gives the witches mutant powers. Yes, it's very bad
Robert Walton
2025-04-29 15:22:12 +0000 UTC“ if it’s not a wedding it’s witchcraft.” -Crow T. Robot
Catboyslim
2025-04-29 15:12:28 +0000 UTCYeeeees my dream blunt rotation reunited!
Tala Hobballah
2025-04-29 15:03:13 +0000 UTC"Breckin Meyer must die!" Szyszka and his hatred for BM is hilarious 😂 Great EP Boys, and AJB has an excellent energy she brings to every EP she guests on
Watch_N_Rewatch
2025-04-29 14:39:11 +0000 UTCOh man, when Steve was talking about his illegal Catholic school jeans I was hoping we'd get a reprise of the, "I will not cool my jets, MAN!" story 😂 One of my fave Steve anecdotes
Dennis Stack
2025-04-29 14:30:14 +0000 UTCI want to say Final Fight is the first game where using special moves depleted your health.
Frank Grimes
2025-04-29 13:36:48 +0000 UTCI have to admire the shamelessness of it.
Justine Prudhomme
2025-04-29 13:26:58 +0000 UTCaw yeah, AJB is back
StylinGreymon
2025-04-29 13:18:44 +0000 UTCFairuza’s screaming speech she gives to Skeet Ulrich is my favorite part of this!! He’s sorry! He’s sorry!! She knocked it out of the park!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-04-29 12:48:17 +0000 UTCI also indulged in a lot of that USA Network fuck-shit. Monk, Burn Notice, SVU reruns, it was all there on glorious basic cable.
Tim O'
2025-04-29 12:24:32 +0000 UTCAngelica is back!
Leesha Olivier
2025-04-29 11:35:19 +0000 UTCIt may be a mediocre cover, but it still pisses me off that Charmed stole Love Spit Love's take on "How Soon is Now" just two years after this was released.
CharlesGrodin'sToupee
2025-04-29 11:32:18 +0000 UTCThat Beatles cover at the beginning.... Jesus Christ 😂
Purple Roundy
2025-04-29 09:39:30 +0000 UTCGreat episode 👏
Kureigu
2025-04-29 08:34:17 +0000 UTCWait, there's people wearing wigs in this movie? I don't believe it.
Ray
2025-04-29 07:48:40 +0000 UTCIt wasn't until listening to the podcast tonight that I realized this is a primo September "Back to School" kind of episode. However, I think we're close enough to the middle months of the year to go ahead and consider it a nice "Back to Summer School" episode.
Busiris
2025-04-29 07:23:09 +0000 UTCCall me craft the way I shoot up lightning in my veins
MrDirtyDan
2025-04-29 05:07:35 +0000 UTCAJB has a great newsletter btw, I subscribed to it awhile back, highly recommend it!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-04-29 04:29:45 +0000 UTCHaven’t listened yet but I am preemptively declaring it one of my new favorite episodes! AJB!! The Craft!! Also - Amazing covers on an amazing soundtrack!!
Jaime Lee Ezell
2025-04-29 04:27:31 +0000 UTCI’ve been waiting for this episode for 5 years🙏🏽
Miguel Sanchez
2025-04-29 04:10:21 +0000 UTCAgreed
Nicholas Knecht
2025-04-29 04:04:22 +0000 UTCOh hell yeah, always love an Angelica guest spot!
Barnaby Jones
2025-04-29 04:02:19 +0000 UTC
