Hoodoo’s Craft

How bad is the new Kate Hudson film “Skeleton Key”? According to movie critic Glen Baity its “The Craft” bad.

“My real complaint with The Skeleton Key is that it does for Hoodoo what The Craft did for Wicca, taking a religious practice with a rich history and filtering out nearly everything interesting. It?s a shame, because the look and feel of the film are so eye-catching precisely because they draw on rural Louisiana?s uniquely diverse culture, but the film ends up exploiting it. Forget the complex African roots of the Hoodoo religion; ultimately it?s only a means for the characters to hurl hexes at one another like kids in a Pokemon card tournament. It cheapens what would have otherwise been a decent horror film. Some of this criticism is supposedly explained by the ending (which I won?t give away, heavens no, because it?s so shocking), but I just didn?t buy it.”

Considering how (in)famous “The Craft” is in modern Pagan circles that’s saying something.

Tags: Neopaganism