Why The Craft’s “We Are The Weirdos Mister” Line Is So Iconic

Why is The Craft’s “We are the weirdos mister” such an iconic line? Andrew Fleming’s supernatural teen horror movie The Craft may have been a box office success, but it didn’t set critics alight when it was released in 1996. To anyone who happened to be young and female back then, it’s a cult classic whose empowering message still resonates more than 25 years later and its memorable line “We are the weirdos mister” is emblematic of why it means so much to so many.

The Craft follows four teen girls attending a parochial prep school in Los Angeles who are each outcasts in their own way. Troubled new girl Sarah Bailey (Robin Tunney) blames herself for her mother’s death during childbirth, while wallflower Bonnie Harper’s (Neve Campbell) body is covered in scars sustained in a childhood car accident. Rochelle Zimmerman (Rachel True), meanwhile, faces racist bullying as one of the only black students at their overwhelmingly WASP-y high school while Nancy Downs (Fairuza Balk) has a horrible home life living in a rundown trailer with her alcoholic mother and abusive stepfather.

Nancy, Rochelle and Bonnie are budding witches and after discovering that Sarah has a natural aptitude for magic, they welcome the newcomer into their fold. The Craft foursome subsequently forms a coven and use their powers to right their various wrongs while celebrating their newfound friendship and outsider status. One scene in The Craft finds the coven taking a bus to the woods to practice witchcraft and after disembarking, the bus driver tells them to “Watch out for those weirdos” to which Nancy retorts “We are the weirdos mister.”

That particular scene spawned the movie’s most memorable quote and “We are the weirdos mister” has come to sum up everything that makes The Craft such a beloved movie. It’s a statement that communicates that Nancy, Sarah, Bonnie and Rochelle aren’t the victims in this horror movie but the ones in charge and – moreover – it conveys the coven are fully embracing their nonconformity and newfound power.

It’s because of the empowering message behind “We are the weirdos mister” that The Craft remains such a cult favorite and why watching it is seen as something of a rite of passage for young women. The movie’s legacy lives on too in its befittingly titled quasi-sequel The Craft: Legacy which both pays homage to its most famous line and features a surprise cameo from a certain key The Craft character.