In this poor man's THE CRAFT, director Jane Simpson's LITTLE WITCHES has Catholic school girls(unfortunately having to spend their spring break at the convent)dabbling with black magic when a secret baptistery is discovered while construction is underway on the old church, and a book of spells written entirely in Latin gives instructions on how to bring forth "He who comes". Sheeri Rappaport is a naughty sex kitten whose life at home is of an abusive nature. The book of spells provides her with something interesting to do(her motivation is that this spell will give her power to no longer have others in authority telling her what to do)while stuck at the convent and her Jamie has a great influence on the other girls. Mimi Rose is the virginal Faith Ferguson, a giggly and sweet girl on the road to Stanford and a potential foil to Jamie's plans(after reciting a spell, the "horned demon" takes over control of her body and this, in turn, enslaves the other girls, besides Faith, who carry on with a ceremony which will allow Lucifer access from his dimension into ours if they are successful)if she can keep the book from their grasp. There's a spiritual guardian the Lord uses to keep Lucifer from entering our world and the identity of the person is later revealed. Jennifer Rubin(NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET III; BAD DREAMS)is Sister Sherilyn, the authoritative figure(and their teacher, also)in charge of the girls. David Lynch regular Jack Nance(ERASERHEAD)is the priest over the parish where these girls attend. Zelda Rubinstein(POLTERGEIST)pops up as another weirdo, this time an odd nun with a fixation for crucifixes(the girls avoid her like the plague)who could be the guardian who keeps the horned demon at bay(and was responsible for it's defeat at the beginning of the movie). Tommy Stork is Mimi's hunky love interest, construction worker/architect student, Daniel(also a virgin saving himself for the right girl). Early role for Clea DuVall as one of the girls who gets all caught up in the witchcraft which costs them far more than they could possibly imagine. Showcase for Rappaport who gets naked a lot and has one hell of a tantalizing striptease from her Catholic school uniform for the construction workers outside..she's really the whole show besides the interesting supporting cast of familiar faces. The ceremony at the end results in the revelation of the ugly demon trying to make it's way into our world as Faith attempts to stop it. The soundtrack consists of echoing chants from a church choir which I found more than a bit annoying after a while. There's really nothing that particularly memorable other than when the girls strip and chant while holding hands and walking in a circle around a well. Good beach front location near the church provides some much needed eye candy besides Rappaport.
39 Reviews
Great bodies, not-so-great plot
Boondocksaint15 April 2000
This movie is a time filler. If you having nothing better to do, watch it. But if you want a quality flick, this isn't it. All it is, is a platform for t & a, and that's about it. The story is not much to be desired, but it IS good mindless fun, take notice on the mindless part. This is good to watch when there's nothing on TV and Showtime is showing it AGAIN. As for the Craft ripoff debate, it's not a ripoff, but it does try to be fun in a Craft way, but fails poorly. If you can see it for free, go for it. But don't waste any money seeing it.
Nineties occultsploitation
drownsoda9028 January 2017
"Little Witches" follows a group of girls at a Catholic boarding school in Southern California who are holed up together over the Easter vacation. Some rowdy, some bored, and some sexually repressed, they group together and begin dabbling with the occult, and unleash evil beyond their imagination.
Often footnoted as the cut-out bin-equivalent to "The Craft," "Little Witches" is drawing on a lengthy tradition of Catholic schoolgirl occult exploitation that has been a trend dating back to the television films of the seventies—"Satan's School for Girls" and "The Possessed" come to mind. In fact, "Little Witches" is really not all that different from those films, aside from the fact that its straight-to-video release allowed for gratuitous nudity and other material that would've never made it on television. In spite of this, the film very much feels like a made-for-TV movie, with indolent cinematography, a distracting musical score, and anemic performances from just about all involved.
In short, yes, this is a terrible film, one whose main attraction for many is the abundance of female flesh and sacrilegious antics. The flip side? There is definitely an audience for it, and though I can't necessarily count myself as one of them, I can understand where people find the charm in it. The film is peppered with fun scenes, and the over-the-top ending is reminiscent of the hokiest of the "Children of the Corn" sequels. Jennifer Rubin plays the authoritative nun/mother figure of the film, while a young Clea DuVall has a small part as one of the sorores Satanae; Sheeri Rappaport plays the ringleader of the girls, while Mimi Rose plays (unconvincingly) the film's moral center. Zelda Rubinstein also makes a rather amusing token appearance.
Overall, "Little Witches" is a generally weak film that is also a vainglorious B-movie triumph in some sense. It's technically quite abysmal on most accounts, but it also oddly seems to be aware of this. There is fun to be had for the right frame of mind (or right viewer), but at the end of the day, it's still a cheap and easy Satanic sisterhood flick that, while more gratuitous than its peers, does not rise above them. 4/10.
Often footnoted as the cut-out bin-equivalent to "The Craft," "Little Witches" is drawing on a lengthy tradition of Catholic schoolgirl occult exploitation that has been a trend dating back to the television films of the seventies—"Satan's School for Girls" and "The Possessed" come to mind. In fact, "Little Witches" is really not all that different from those films, aside from the fact that its straight-to-video release allowed for gratuitous nudity and other material that would've never made it on television. In spite of this, the film very much feels like a made-for-TV movie, with indolent cinematography, a distracting musical score, and anemic performances from just about all involved.
In short, yes, this is a terrible film, one whose main attraction for many is the abundance of female flesh and sacrilegious antics. The flip side? There is definitely an audience for it, and though I can't necessarily count myself as one of them, I can understand where people find the charm in it. The film is peppered with fun scenes, and the over-the-top ending is reminiscent of the hokiest of the "Children of the Corn" sequels. Jennifer Rubin plays the authoritative nun/mother figure of the film, while a young Clea DuVall has a small part as one of the sorores Satanae; Sheeri Rappaport plays the ringleader of the girls, while Mimi Rose plays (unconvincingly) the film's moral center. Zelda Rubinstein also makes a rather amusing token appearance.
Overall, "Little Witches" is a generally weak film that is also a vainglorious B-movie triumph in some sense. It's technically quite abysmal on most accounts, but it also oddly seems to be aware of this. There is fun to be had for the right frame of mind (or right viewer), but at the end of the day, it's still a cheap and easy Satanic sisterhood flick that, while more gratuitous than its peers, does not rise above them. 4/10.
A B-movie great.
Hippie6930 December 1998
In today's world of high-profile Hollywood special effects flicks, B-movies are very underrated and under-appreciated. Oscar material they are not, but they don't try to be. I, personally, have a love for B-cinema, whether it's B-horror, B-action, or B-science fiction. They're movies without big budgets, without big stars, and have poor scripts and poor acting, yet can be just as much fun as big Hollywood movies. A well-made B-movie is humorous, schlocky, tittilating, and most of all entertaining.
Jane Simpson's Little Witches is all of these. It contains everything that makes B-movies so much fun: Creepy horror, blood and gore, a low budget, hot catholic school girl babes, and loads of bare flesh. A truly entertaining and well-made B-movie. The term 'good bad movie' certainly applies to Little Witches. I'll be looking for Sheeri Rappaport in more films after this one.
Jane Simpson's Little Witches is all of these. It contains everything that makes B-movies so much fun: Creepy horror, blood and gore, a low budget, hot catholic school girl babes, and loads of bare flesh. A truly entertaining and well-made B-movie. The term 'good bad movie' certainly applies to Little Witches. I'll be looking for Sheeri Rappaport in more films after this one.
Good nudity, great character actors, bad everything else
Groverdox26 October 2022
Having just re-watched "Little Witches", I was disappointed. It's nowhere near as good as I remembered.
Of course, I mostly remembered the nudity, which the movie well-advisedly does not skimp on. But it's not a softcore flick, so there is an attempt at plot... an attempt which absolutely fails.
Other than the basic set-up which can probably be gleaned from looking at the DVD box - that is, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get involved in "witchcraft" - I don't know what the movie was about. There is something about hunky construction workers on the school grounds who dig up a corpse or a relic or something and the girls use the dig site in their rites. Also, predictably, the sexpot schoolgirl goes evil and the goody-two-shoes girl goes heroic in the end.
The acting in the movie is better than it really deserves. In particular, Mimi Rose, who plays the good girl, makes her into a character you can believe in, and there seems to be more going on behind the bad girl's performance than just going through the motions. The movie also has legendary character actors Jack Nance and Zelda Rubinstein but doesn't benefit that much from their appearance other than a couple of good scenes. Rubinstein only does one scene. She was an actress with a unique and powerful presence who added an pearl of strangeness to every movie she appeared in. If they had made her, say, the principal of the school and had her appear in multiple scenes in the movie, that could have established an atmosphere that would have suited the movie's try-hard spooky hijinks. It may even have elevated them to something the audience might have cared about.
The music, also, is terrible b-movie synth slop, overbearing from beginning to end, and headache inducing.
I'm not sure why I liked this one so much the first time around. I'm watching the final scene right now and I don't even know what's happening. I didn't care enough to try to follow the plot.
Of course, I mostly remembered the nudity, which the movie well-advisedly does not skimp on. But it's not a softcore flick, so there is an attempt at plot... an attempt which absolutely fails.
Other than the basic set-up which can probably be gleaned from looking at the DVD box - that is, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get involved in "witchcraft" - I don't know what the movie was about. There is something about hunky construction workers on the school grounds who dig up a corpse or a relic or something and the girls use the dig site in their rites. Also, predictably, the sexpot schoolgirl goes evil and the goody-two-shoes girl goes heroic in the end.
The acting in the movie is better than it really deserves. In particular, Mimi Rose, who plays the good girl, makes her into a character you can believe in, and there seems to be more going on behind the bad girl's performance than just going through the motions. The movie also has legendary character actors Jack Nance and Zelda Rubinstein but doesn't benefit that much from their appearance other than a couple of good scenes. Rubinstein only does one scene. She was an actress with a unique and powerful presence who added an pearl of strangeness to every movie she appeared in. If they had made her, say, the principal of the school and had her appear in multiple scenes in the movie, that could have established an atmosphere that would have suited the movie's try-hard spooky hijinks. It may even have elevated them to something the audience might have cared about.
The music, also, is terrible b-movie synth slop, overbearing from beginning to end, and headache inducing.
I'm not sure why I liked this one so much the first time around. I'm watching the final scene right now and I don't even know what's happening. I didn't care enough to try to follow the plot.
Nekkid School Girls Summon Satan!! :
MooCowMo28 February 2000
"Little Witches" is one of those silly, sloppy, T&A-loaded Straight-To-Video "B" Horror flicks that you just gotsta luv!! :=8) It sports poor fx, hilarious dialogue, inane black magic mumbo-jumbo, loads of "B" actors you've seen in udder flicks, and copious amounts of nekkid catholic school girl flesh. It's one of those kinda moovies that the herd luvs to pop into the vcr late at night, with a greasy pizza and a 6-pack of moo juice, knowing full well that their brains will not be required for the next 90 minutes or so. In which a gaggle of giggling school girls, left to rot over Easter break at their Catholic boarding school, discover the "black arts", and summon the Big Evil Dude to do the nekkid cow boogie. ;=8) Faith(Mimi Reichmeister) is the sweet, smart, virginal, heroic snugglebunny who just wants to do the right thing; naturally, she saves the day when the Giant Evil Scaly 3-Mouthed Demon Thing comes for munchies. Jamie(Sheeri Rappaport, appearances in "NYPD Blue" & "Xena" tv shows)is the naughty, abused bad girl, who spends moost of the film without clothing, and who gets dragged to hell for being a slutty, power-hungry b**ch. The sharp-eyed will spot Clea DuVall(Invisible Girl in tv's "Buffy:The Vampire Slayer", "The Faculty")in the gaggle, who gets skewered by a scaly demon horn. Snuggly "B" starlet Jennifer Rubin("A Nightmare on Elm Street 3", "The Crush", "Screamers")plays a nun(yeah, right...)who is also the Guardian of the Book That Summons the Giant Evil Scaly 3-Mouthed Demon Thing, and also sports a nifty tattoo! Jack Nance(tv's "Twin Peaks", "Love and a .45") plays a soon-to-be sliced up priest, and good ol' Zelda Rubenstein ("Poltergeist") plays a tiny poisoned nun with a red splotch on her head. The herd howled over such cheesy dialogue as: "Do you have any sins of a non-dietary nature?", and "This is an ancient book of black spells - AND IT REALLY WORKS!". If silly "B" fun, coupled with oodles of nekkid cuties, is what yer after, then the MooCow is here to tell ya this is yer twisted cup of java. Haphazardly directed by Jane Simpson (Simpson, eh...), and sporting moore gaping plot holes than Kathy Lee Gifford's reputation, "Little Witches" is no "Sixth Sense", but believe me you won't mind. The MooCow says order up a double pepperoni & fire up the vcr for "Little Witches", and let the silliness roll! ;=8)
worst version of The Craft
SnoopyStyle2 July 2021
Workmen uncover a mummified body under an all-girls Catholic boarding school. Some girls sneak into the underground cavern to drink communion wine and they find a mysterious book after a nude dance. They start exploring the world of witchcraft with it.
This is basically The Craft except worst and with nudity. Sheeri Rappaport is a compelling performer. Most the actors are fine. It's the weak writing and the weak directing that is the most problematic. The monster makeup and special effects are bad. It's a B-movie, a drive-in double-bill but not much more than that.
This is basically The Craft except worst and with nudity. Sheeri Rappaport is a compelling performer. Most the actors are fine. It's the weak writing and the weak directing that is the most problematic. The monster makeup and special effects are bad. It's a B-movie, a drive-in double-bill but not much more than that.
The Poor Man's Craft
gavin694229 May 2013
A group of girls at a Catholic boarding school get mixed up in the occult.
While I think it was great to see Jack Nance as the priest, and a nice cameo from Zelda Rubinstein, and heck... we even have the debut of Clea DuVall... this just was not a great movie and seems like little more than an excuse to show a group of young women naked.
I kept thinking this was a cheap version of "The Craft". Now, the plots are not very similar. But a group of young women getting into witchcraft in the mid-1990s during the Wiccan craze? Suspicious. (And actually, this film came out the same year as "The Craft", so maybe the biggest issue was just poor timing.)
While I think it was great to see Jack Nance as the priest, and a nice cameo from Zelda Rubinstein, and heck... we even have the debut of Clea DuVall... this just was not a great movie and seems like little more than an excuse to show a group of young women naked.
I kept thinking this was a cheap version of "The Craft". Now, the plots are not very similar. But a group of young women getting into witchcraft in the mid-1990s during the Wiccan craze? Suspicious. (And actually, this film came out the same year as "The Craft", so maybe the biggest issue was just poor timing.)
If you feel in the mood for softcore porn....
mattymatt4ever29 March 2001
This is not a great movie, much less a good one. But it was destined to go direct to video, so I shouldn't waste my time gnawing on the film's stupidity.
For all the guys out there...this movie has some great nude scenes. The girl who played the lead has that Katie Holmes sort of look. And she does a striptease in the film. Way cool!
If you feel like watching something witty and suspenseful like The Craft, this is not the one to watch. But if you feel in the mood for gratuitous nudity...check this one out!
For all the guys out there...this movie has some great nude scenes. The girl who played the lead has that Katie Holmes sort of look. And she does a striptease in the film. Way cool!
If you feel like watching something witty and suspenseful like The Craft, this is not the one to watch. But if you feel in the mood for gratuitous nudity...check this one out!
a good movie!
Denny7 July 1999
In the grand tradition of B horror movies, this one does have nudity (not to disappoint the male viewers) and stereotypes its characters like crazy, but it was good and actually scary. These were mostly unheard-of actors but they all did a good job. Clea DuVall has gone on since to do other movies: The Faculty and She's All That to name a few. Sheeri Rappaport, Mimi Reichmeister and Jennifer Rubin all were excellent. This movie was a very very effective contribution to the horror genre.
A Review From The Saint of All Liars
saint_of_all_liars31 December 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Little Witches is about a group of mermaids who go on a perilous journey in search of The Dork of Moby. A legendary whale bone that is said to have magical powers which gives any nautical creature the ability to breath on land while it's in their possession. Early their adventure, the girls encounter a great white shark named, Steven Spielberg. Steven Spielberg seems to be a docile creature who is charitable enough to act as their guardian during the trek, but as the members of the squadron of mermaids begin to disappear one by one, they realize Steven Spielberg has ulterior motives after they spot a mermaid scale stuck between two of Steven Spielberg's teeth. So they are forced to make an escape from the blood thirsty predator with a taste for mer-people with the help of a sea turtle named Cloud Strife, an octopus named Simon Belmont, a jumbo shrimp named Shinobi, and a manatee named Rosie O'Donnell, who they met while taking part amateur night of an oceanic strip club called Flippers, in the Arctic regions in order to earn some extra clams for their journey. All & All, I can say without a doubt that this film was better than Citizen Kane, The Godfather II, & Pulp Fiction combined. The Oscar winning performance given by Mimi Rose put Vivien Leigh, Meryl Steep, & Hillary Duff to shame. So if you love heartfelt stories that doesn't have nudity, cursing, pagan rituals, or fat chicks, that the whole family can sit down and watch while you visit your Alzheimer's stricken grandmother in the spare no expense, rest home of luxury you put her in... then this is the film for you. Pope Judas Nixon over & out!
loved it
Lacywhitus3 May 2002
I loved this movie..... It had the right ammount of rage and teen angst in it. The whole freaky nun thing was silly, but none the less added to the entertainment value of "little witches" I would say, go rent it...it's a good laugh.
Oh come on! You know why you are watching this.
insomniac_rod23 November 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Wow! and I really mean WOW. That was my reaction when I first watched the gorgeous Sheeri Rappaport in this B-Witch movie. What a body! what a beautiful, angel face, and those legs; perfectly build... You know were I'm going.
Let's be honest people. This movie is mediocre, dull, sometimes boring, but it has hot women. Sheeri steals the show as the hottest, sexiest of them all and delivers some steamy sexy scenes. For example, anytime she wears the college girl uniform (open shirt and skimpy mini mini skirt) she immediately gets naked like in the glorious scene at the confessional, and then while performing a striptease to tease the construction workers. Then she spends the whole movie naked or semi-naked. Thank you Sheeri!
Clea Duvall also has her moments and so does the rest of the cast but believe me, Ms. Rappaport is the reason to spend 90 minutes of your life.
ALso, the movie has some cheesy moments like when the devil monster "surprises" the naked chicks. That was just a lame excuse to show glorious frontal female nudity. So the rest of the scenes.
If you are looking for cheap entertainment then look elsewhere! "Little Witches" it's all about sexiness, hot women, and sex. This is my kind of entertainment for 3:00 a.m.
Let's be honest people. This movie is mediocre, dull, sometimes boring, but it has hot women. Sheeri steals the show as the hottest, sexiest of them all and delivers some steamy sexy scenes. For example, anytime she wears the college girl uniform (open shirt and skimpy mini mini skirt) she immediately gets naked like in the glorious scene at the confessional, and then while performing a striptease to tease the construction workers. Then she spends the whole movie naked or semi-naked. Thank you Sheeri!
Clea Duvall also has her moments and so does the rest of the cast but believe me, Ms. Rappaport is the reason to spend 90 minutes of your life.
ALso, the movie has some cheesy moments like when the devil monster "surprises" the naked chicks. That was just a lame excuse to show glorious frontal female nudity. So the rest of the scenes.
If you are looking for cheap entertainment then look elsewhere! "Little Witches" it's all about sexiness, hot women, and sex. This is my kind of entertainment for 3:00 a.m.
Home Movie
jlbat-674-7617511 July 2012
Warning: Spoilers
I think someone made a mistake and released their home movies by mistake. This film gives a whole new meaning to the term "low-budget." The beginning was a bit confusing and lacked context. The plot was pedestrian and derivative of similar, better, films. The acting was uneven largely because the 'girls' were at differing levels of skill and talent. Even the nude scene was banal and boring, which is a very difficult feat to achieve. It's difficult to imagine how this film could be saved. The cast should apologize to anyone who has the misfortune of watching this drivel. The only really interesting thing about this film is Clea DuVall's ass.
When good girls go bad.
Drachaen9 August 1999
Nudity... that's cheating.
marc.melvin9 July 2000
This movie is absolutely terrible. If you want to see a movie that deals with the same content (witchcraft) yet has a much better story line, see "The Craft." However, if you want to see a movie dealing with many many nude teenage witches, this is probably up your alley. Sorry, it was just terrible.
Pretty Awful
bplatte119 August 2013
I mean, was this a student film?
So, I was looking for a fun witchy flick to watch on my day off. What I got was a train wreck masked as a movie.
I don't know much about the production of this, but I really hope that there is an excuse for how terrible it was. Low budget? I saw that they only had 2 weeks to film, so maybe that had something to do with it.
The lighting was low and sporadic. The sound was about the same, with poor choice in music. It was both unintriguing, distracting, and predictable.
The acting was as bad as a high school play... maybe worse, depends on the high school. The acting was HORRIBLE. I didn't believed any of the performances. It was almost like they picked people off the street with no skill or experience and threw them into this film on a whim.
Even the plot of this was boring and I found myself looking for other things to entertain my time while this movie was playing in the background.
Guys will love this though. There's plenty of naked girls to go around.
So, I was looking for a fun witchy flick to watch on my day off. What I got was a train wreck masked as a movie.
I don't know much about the production of this, but I really hope that there is an excuse for how terrible it was. Low budget? I saw that they only had 2 weeks to film, so maybe that had something to do with it.
The lighting was low and sporadic. The sound was about the same, with poor choice in music. It was both unintriguing, distracting, and predictable.
The acting was as bad as a high school play... maybe worse, depends on the high school. The acting was HORRIBLE. I didn't believed any of the performances. It was almost like they picked people off the street with no skill or experience and threw them into this film on a whim.
Even the plot of this was boring and I found myself looking for other things to entertain my time while this movie was playing in the background.
Guys will love this though. There's plenty of naked girls to go around.
Catholic High School Girls in Trouble!
JoeB1316 January 2013
But aren't they always? So a group of interchangeable girls find a demonic temple underneath their Catholic boarding school, and discover that a past group of students from 80 years ago tried the same thing and were all killed horribly.
Despite that, they try to summon the demon, for what reason, I'm not entirely sure. I guess so no one tells them what to do anymore.
Oh, when I say Hight School Girls, I mean girls in their 20s, because they never hire teenagers to actually play teenagers...
Look for guest appearances by that short lady from the Poltergeist films and Eric Peirpont from Alien Nation.
Despite that, they try to summon the demon, for what reason, I'm not entirely sure. I guess so no one tells them what to do anymore.
Oh, when I say Hight School Girls, I mean girls in their 20s, because they never hire teenagers to actually play teenagers...
Look for guest appearances by that short lady from the Poltergeist films and Eric Peirpont from Alien Nation.
MWUAHAHA, what a terrible movie!
BlueFormicaHalo18 September 1999
I can not begin to tell you what a horrible movie "Little Witches" is... but I also cannot tell you what a huge "crush" (I am censoring myself there) I had when watching Sheeri Rappaport. Good God! She is a true beauty... and, yes, this is a horrible "Craft" rip-off. Unlike many, I enjoyed "The Craft" and its black humor, but besides Rappaport, there is little to like here. *Beware viewers, here you get to see an obese, jelly-rolled young actress dance fully naked around a well* DONT SAY I DIDNT WARN YOU!
Goth can be so much more sexy, so much more fun, and so much better. Half a star out of Four (the half comes from Ms. Rappaport).
Goth can be so much more sexy, so much more fun, and so much better. Half a star out of Four (the half comes from Ms. Rappaport).
Little Worth.
Son_of_Mansfield9 March 2007
Warning: Spoilers
There is a scene in this movie where where the group of girls play naked ring around the cauldron. It may be the most exciting scene in the movie, if you block out the one very large girl. This rip-off of The Craft is duller than a church on Sunday. The picture on the poster even looks like Fairuza Balk. There isn't anything to watch except for the curiosity of seeing an early Clea Duvall, a naughty Sherri Rappaport, and a nunny Jennifer Rubin. The plot is basically the same as The Craft, a group of girls play with magic and pay for it, but without any decent actors or good effects, it's forgettable. My favorite scene is Rappaport's topless dance in her Catholic school girl outfit, for obvious reasons.
an under-appreciated witchy classic
dutchchocolatecake28 September 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Take away the gratuitous nudity and trip down the nostalgic lane of 90s soft core porn and there would be no positive reviews for this movie.
I find that rather sad, because the acting is good, the plot is soundly structured and moves along at a good pace; and the characters are written very well. It's just a shame everyone else seems hung up on the nudity and striptease in the beginning of the movie to not notice what else is good about this movie.
"Little Witches" completes the trifecta of witchy classics from the late 80s and early to mid 90s; the big ones being The Witches of Eastwick, The Craft, and now "Little Witches." Teen Witch was a comedy but deserves an honorable mention.
I'm giving this a 7 out of 10, because the dialogue is vague and nuanced at times; the death scenes are clearly fake and the ending is lukewarm and anti-climactic. Otherwise, not completely a bad movie.
I find that rather sad, because the acting is good, the plot is soundly structured and moves along at a good pace; and the characters are written very well. It's just a shame everyone else seems hung up on the nudity and striptease in the beginning of the movie to not notice what else is good about this movie.
"Little Witches" completes the trifecta of witchy classics from the late 80s and early to mid 90s; the big ones being The Witches of Eastwick, The Craft, and now "Little Witches." Teen Witch was a comedy but deserves an honorable mention.
I'm giving this a 7 out of 10, because the dialogue is vague and nuanced at times; the death scenes are clearly fake and the ending is lukewarm and anti-climactic. Otherwise, not completely a bad movie.
not a rip-off of the craft...not even that.
raving_wolf21 August 2000
little witches was a terrible movie that may have been successful if the acting wasn't so bad and the girls left their clothes on. The plot was ok and all that but the effects sucked and i couldn't help but think that this was just someones lame follow up to the popularity of the craft.
i'd rather see dennis rodman in drag throwing magic around than these girls.
i'd rather see dennis rodman in drag throwing magic around than these girls.
Cool film!
jp_9124 August 2020
Since 1996, many people has related this film with "The Craft", often been called a copy, but "Little Witches" is different in many ways and even superior than "The Craft". "Little Witches" is a low budget film with a great shine, meanwhile "The Craft" is a high budget film with cool moments but something is missing. Back to "Little Witches", the script is simple but thrilling, the cast is good especially Jennifer Rubin and Zelda Rubinstein. Good makeup effects and creepy film locations. A low budget classic!
This film has it all
smatysia17 September 1999
This film has it all. The occult, Catholic girl's school, nudity, everything a male movie-goer could want. I haven't seen "The Craft" so I couldn't say if this film copies it or not. Mimi Reichmeister shines as the "good girl" who gets in over her head. She brings a fresh-faced innocence to the role. Too bad her career doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
once again seen it all before
manicgecko10 April 2006
One of these days someone is going to break away from the tired occult movie formula. Little Witches is not that attempt. This is just another attempt to get young flesh on the screen. The only originality in this movie is the choice for the virgin, everything else has been carbon copied from movies from the Craft to Poultreguist to the Exorcist. They could have spent a little more time working into the history, bit hey, most men who watch this are not into the plot anyway. Their reason is too brief and a little disturbing at times for even that census group to enjoy. If you haven't seen many of the occult formula this one will not disappoint. However for those of you that have there is really little new or improved to recommend.
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