event The Watching Hour: Teen Witch

From Buffy’s Willow to The Craft’s schoolgirl sorcerers to Sabrina The Teenage Witch, something about women in the throes of adolescence always lends itself to stories about the black arts. Case in point: The ’80s coming-of-age comedy Teen Witch was originally intended as a companion to Teen Wolf—where Michael J. Fox’s sudden hirsuteness was a none-too-subtle metaphor for puberty—and it shares that movie’s premise of a socially invisible high school student finding sudden popularity thanks to supernatural means.

From Buffy’s Willow to The Craft’s schoolgirl sorcerers to Sabrina The Teenage Witch, something about women in the throes of adolescence always lends itself to stories about the black arts. Case in point: The ’80s coming-of-age comedy Teen Witch was originally intended as a companion to Teen Wolf—where Michael J. Fox’s sudden hirsuteness was a none-too-subtle metaphor for puberty—and it shares that movie’s premise of a socially invisible high school student finding sudden popularity thanks to supernatural means.