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Originally Posted by Morningriser
yeah I mean the movie itself is pretty tame and terms of Gore and horror but yeah it's the detailing in the writing about the rituals and such that turns so many people onto it. In fact, that's why Fairuza Balk even took the role to begin with. As I said before, she is a wiccan but she fell in love with the script and the detailing in it. There are a lot of movies that have tried replicating the craft whether they be about witchcraft or just emulating the group themselves.
I would recommend checking out the season, coven, of American Horror Story. You wouldn't need to watch the previous two seasons to understand what's going on but if you ever decided to watch apocalypse, I would highly recommend watching coven first.
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Yeah that is pretty interesting about the girl who played Nancy isn't it? I also heard that the people who made the movie hired an actual wiccan practioner to consult on how the movie should be. Of course because it is just a movie some creative licensing was still taken into effect and some of the things about the movie were unrealistic despite being pretty close to how Wicca works. Real wiccans can't fly in the air, turn into a different girl, or walk through mirrors.
Besides the four girls I also liked the lady with the accent (not sure where she was supposed to be from? Maybe Ireland or a latin country?) who ran the shop where the girls bought their books and ritual supplies. Unlike the four girls who were basically "dabblers" she was an experienced witch who took Wicca seriously as a religion and she basically served not just as a shopkeeper but as a kind of spiritual guide to the four girls.
I also feel like the movie Sleepy Hollow was heavily implying the concept of wicca when it came to the witchy characters in that movie. Women drawing powers from nature and some like Katrina being "nice" witches while others like Mary being "selfish" witches. I think wicca movies used to be very popular in the 1990's I mean they even made a Scooby Doo movie about it. Scooby Doo and The Witch's Ghost. Remember The Hex Girls?
I watched a couple of episodes of AHS Convenant before and I admit I was intrigued by it. It also focused on Voodoo which is another misunderstood religion that involves things like spells and rituals. I actually learned a little about Voodoo when I visited New Orleans a couple of years ago and I visited an authentic voodoo shop (not a fake one for tourists). I thought it was so cool.
Maybe I'll check that season out if it isn't as offensive as Asylum or Freakshow.