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Hocus Pocus

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Hocus Pocus	comment	A 1993 Halloween-themed Disney film "for kids". This was the second film directed by Kenny Ortega, previously known for Newsies (1992) and later recognized for the High School Musical franchise. The movie didn't make waves upon release, but eventually found a renaissance of fandom that has turned it into a seasonal Cult Classic and revitalized interest in the property for Disney.The film opens in the year 1693. Thackery Binx (a role shared by Sean Murray and Jason Marsden), a teenager living in Salem, Massachusetts, discovers his little sister Emily (Amanda Shepherd) has gone missing. Emily has been lured away to the farm of the Sanderson sisters, a trio of witches—consisting of older sister/leader Winifred "Winnie" (Bette Midler), middle sister/tracker Mary (Kathy Najimy), and little sister/siren-like predator Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) — who suck the life-forces of little children to prolong their lives; such is the fate suffered by Emily. Thackery attempts to save her, but the sisters transform him into an immortal black cat. The sisters are soon after captured by the townspeople and hanged. Before her death, Winnie pronounces her death curse, vowing that the trio will have their revenge.Fast-forward three hundred years. The Dennisons are a California family who have just moved to Salem, bringing along teenage son Max (Omri Katz) and eight-year-old daughter Dani (Thora Birch). On Halloween night, Max takes his sister trick-or-treating and gets to hang with new love interest Allison (Vinessa Shaw). Allison tells him of the legend of the Sanderson sisters and of a supposed way to revive them; skeptic virgin Max ends up resurrecting the diabolical trio. Now the kids and immortal cat Binx have to face the witches throughout the night, with the lives of every kid in Salem at risk.A surge of re-interest in the movie spurred Disney into promoting it as a seasonal staple for the brand. In 2015, The Magic Kingdom launched a Hocus Pocus themed musical revue as part of Mickey's Not-So Scary Halloween Party: The Hocus Pocus Villain Spelltacular. In it, the Sanderson Sisters use the magic of the Magic Kingdom to return from the grave to throw a wild All Hallow's Eve bash, inviting some of Disney’s greatest villains to join them. While the sisters are Lighter and Softer than their film counterparts by necessity (having infanticidal witches at a Disney Theme Park wouldn't exactly be 'not-so scary'), the show is a loving tribute, complete with a show-stopping rendition of "I Put a Spell on You" for the finale.A Novelization released in July 2018, titled Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel, containing the novelization of the film and a sequel story. The sequel focuses on Max and Allison's daughter, Poppy, who grew up hearing the family story of the events of the first film (and parents who avoid Halloween as much as possible). Poppy is skeptical of the tale and ends up in the Sanderson house on Halloween, twenty-five years to the day after the film, in an attempt to prove there's nothing to the story.In 2020, a sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, was greenlit, to be executive produced by Adam Shankman (Hairspray (2007)) and directed by Anne Fletcher (27 Dresses), releasing on Disney+ on September 30th, 2022. A third installment is in the works.No relations to the 1994 similarly titled video game. Also unrelated is Kurt Vonnegut's 1990 dramatic novel of the same name.If you would like to read Neil Cuthbert's May 1992 draft of the screenplay click here.
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Hocus Pocus / int_105cabdd	comment	Jacob Marley Apparel: Binx and Emily's ghosts at the end are wearing the clothes they died in.
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Hocus Pocus / int_10dcbe05	type	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
Hocus Pocus / int_10dcbe05	comment	Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Max and Dani have a typical sibling relationship with lots of bickering. He also risks his life for her several times, culminating in when he drinks the potion to make sure the witches can't murder her. Dani is relieved that he's okay at the end after keeping Mary from hurting Max and points out quietly he saved her life. Max smiles and says that's what big brothers do.
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Hocus Pocus / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Hocus Pocus / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: Winnie Sanderson at one point says to her sisters "We are witches, we are evil!" But then, being that they got their powers by selling their souls to Satan, this probably just represents a realistic view of themselves. Also, during "I Put A Spell On You" song:
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Hocus Pocus / int_138fe57e	type	All Witches Have Cats
Hocus Pocus / int_138fe57e	comment	All Witches Have Cats: Inverted. The witch sisters transform Binx into a black cat For the Evulz. By the time of the main narrative, he's their sworn enemy. However when he attempts to get his father’s attention at the sisters’ hanging, Mr Binx apparently mistakes him for Winifred’s familiar. As mentioned in Animal Motifs below, Mary's more like a dog.
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Hocus Pocus / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Hocus Pocus / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: For Disney in general. There's a child death in the prologue alone! Any more so, and they'd likely have changed the label to Touchstone.
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Hocus Pocus / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Hocus Pocus / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: The Sandersons may seem comically bumbling about 80 percent of the time, Emily's murder being utter Nightmare Fuel, but you'd be wise not to mess with them when they really get angry. Sarah in particular seems a harmless, ditzy woman through most of the movie. Then she starts singing sweetly, luring children into the trio's clutches, and you know she's deadly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_17330d6c	type	Terrible Trio
Hocus Pocus / int_17330d6c	comment	Terrible Trio: The three witch sisters, of course.
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Hocus Pocus / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Hocus Pocus / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: "C'mon, it's all just a bunch of hocus pocus." Winifred later repeats the same line in a mocking way when they're flying/chasing after the protagonists through the graveyard.
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Hocus Pocus / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Hocus Pocus / int_191a3673	comment	Of all the three, Sarah has the decency to act like a Graceful Loser when sunrise comes. She merely spreads her arms and bids farewell to her sisters.
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Hocus Pocus / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Hocus Pocus / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Some Disney Channel commercials omit any reference to the children, instead appearing to promote the witches as the stars.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1ab69ee3	type	Unexpected Virgin
Hocus Pocus / int_1ab69ee3	comment	Unexpected Virgin: Playfully inverted in Real Life with a bit of tie-in merch: Colourpop, a cosmetics company in the US, included a Black Flame Candle in their 2021 Halloween product collection themed after this movie. Considering most of their products are marketed toward millennial and older-Gen Z customers, the joking implication seems to be that it's safe to sell the candles to a demographic that are probably not virgins.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1beef720	type	Living Forever Is Awesome
Hocus Pocus / int_1beef720	comment	Living Forever Is Awesome: A downplayed example is in Binx. He doesn't enjoy immortality, but he does find a purpose in it by keeping virgins from lighting the Black Flame Candle. Also, when it seems like the witches are dead, he doesn't seem to mind Dani turning him into her "fat useless housecat".
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Hocus Pocus / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
Hocus Pocus / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: Winnie holds it pretty hard at some points, but the worst is when the three sisters have everything they need to win, at least temporarily — enough potion to suck the life out of at least one child, which would give them enough time to live at least past Halloween and make more, plus the spell book and a whole crowd of children on which to use it, and Winnie gives up the perfect opportunity to go get the life of one specific child, who called her "ugly." Even given that Winnie had been shown many times beforehand to be vain, self-centered, arrogant and vindictive, you would still think she would ensure that she would live past the end of the night, then go after Dani.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1ccad9a3	type	Villain Song
Hocus Pocus / int_1ccad9a3	comment	Villain Song: "I Put a Spell on You" qualifies as both this and Magic Music. Winnie openly gloats over what she's doing to the party-goers, even as she's doing it. Sarah gets one in the form of "Come, Little Children", which she sings to lure the children of Salem to the witches' lair.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Hocus Pocus / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Mr. Binx angrily interrogates the witches before they hang on the gallows about what they did with his son. Given that her gravestone is seen, he had also found Emily's body and what they had done to her.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
Hocus Pocus / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Emily Binx is hypnotized, lured to the witches' house, and forced to drink a potion that makes her life force vulnerable. The witches then suck the life out of her with a few inhales, so that she rapidly ages and dies within seconds, all without likely being aware of it. Later on in the movie, the witches prepare to do this to all the children in Salem, with Sarah singing to hypnotize them and then to have all of their lives to feast upon and gain immortality.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
Hocus Pocus / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: Billy's fingers are severed by a manhole cover, but since he's a zombie, he gets better.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1f14978d	type	Talking Animal
Hocus Pocus / int_1f14978d	comment	Talking Animal: Binx the talking cat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Hocus Pocus / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: The witches made a pact with Satan to get their powers, and still call him "Master".
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Hocus Pocus / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Hocus Pocus / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The film strongly implies that the Sanderson Sisters don't just absorb children's life force, they also eat them.
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Hocus Pocus / int_222059fa	type	Fairytale Motifs
Hocus Pocus / int_222059fa	comment	Fairytale Motifs: Some to Hansel and Gretel. The parents send a boy and his sister out of the house which leads to them visiting the witches' house. The witches attempt to eat one child and lock two others in a cage and the heroes attempt to kill them by burning them in the school furnace.
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Hocus Pocus / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Hocus Pocus / int_222969af	comment	All There in the Script: The screenplay has some enlightening dialog that sheds a bit of light of certain things: Winnie's spellbook belongs (or once belonged) to Satan, and it is valued to the sisters because the information within it can change to be whatever they want whenever they want, making it the ultimate endless evil weapon of ever changing spells. Allison's ancestor is a good witch named Elizabeth Podbury, which could explain her knowledge of witchcraft. The novelization expands on this: her full name was Elizabeth Sanderson Podbury, and she was the family's White Sheep. If a witch touches salt, it burns her skin. This is why a circle of salt protects against their magic. While the sisters look human, their bodies are essentially their souls being contained in a body made of candle wax. If the witches consume enough children, they'll be immortal. Thackery is not exactly "immortal". While Winnie taunts him that he will live forever, he actually has only nine million lives and will die when he uses them up. At one point, he says that he has used up 321 of them but there "are only so many ways to go". The Sanderson Sisters are actually half-sisters born out of wedlock. According to Allison, Winnie’s father was a warlock, Mary’s was a bloodhound (hence her ability to smell children) and Sarah’s was the village idiot. This was retconned in the sequel. The Dennisons moved to Salem simply because they wanted Max and Dani to grow up in a healthy environment.
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Hocus Pocus / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Hocus Pocus / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: At one point, Winifred swoops in on the kids, taunting them with Max's earlier line, "It's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!"
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Hocus Pocus / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
Hocus Pocus / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: The plot is kicked off with the abduction and murder of Emily Binx.
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Hocus Pocus / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Hocus Pocus / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: During a scene where the witches are hiding from firemen after Max sets off the sprinkler, Winnie explains to Mary they must be witch hunters, whereas Sarah notices "a pretty spider" and proceeds to eat it.
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Hocus Pocus / int_275773bd	type	Curse Escape Clause
Hocus Pocus / int_275773bd	comment	Curse Escape Clause: An accidental one: Winifred cursed Binx to live forever with his guilt over having been unable to save his sister, but once the witches are finally killed, Binx's sister has been avenged, so he no longer has a reason to feel guilty—and thus the curse is broken, with Binx finally dying but being able to join his sister in the afterlife.
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Hocus Pocus / int_280f59bf	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Hocus Pocus / int_280f59bf	comment	Extremely Short Time Span: Except for the 1693 prologue, the entire movie takes place in the span of about sixteen hours on Halloween night.
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Hocus Pocus / int_297170d3	type	Halloween Episode
Hocus Pocus / int_297170d3	comment	Halloween Episode: The Black Flame Candle only works on Halloween, and once lit, will not last beyond this day.
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Hocus Pocus / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Hocus Pocus / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Just about everywhere in the sequel story, including a reference to the original film's Cult Classic status.
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Hocus Pocus / int_2ad3eb22	type	You Can Talk?
Hocus Pocus / int_2ad3eb22	comment	You Can Talk?: Max's first words to Binx the talking cat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Hocus Pocus / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: Binx snarling "Nice going, Max!" in his standard 17th-century Colonial accent.
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Hocus Pocus / int_2de495bb	type	Missing Child
Hocus Pocus / int_2de495bb	comment	Missing Child: At the start of the film, a girl named Emily Binx goes missing, and it turns out she was kidnapped by three evil witches who suck out her life. Later, the witches capture a little girl named Dani, but she gets saved. At the end of the sequel book, a teenage girl had gone missing and is still missing one year later, as part of a Sequel Hook below.
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Hocus Pocus / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Hocus Pocus / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Mary and Sarah Sanderson in the sequel novel.
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Hocus Pocus / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Hocus Pocus / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: For a little while, it seems that the witches have been cooked in the school kiln. But Binx is still a cat, and the parents are still dancing to death in the city hall. The witches were dead, but it didn't stick.
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Hocus Pocus / int_34c6ed8	type	Don't Go in the Woods
Hocus Pocus / int_34c6ed8	comment	Don't Go in the Woods: The witches lived in the woods prior to their execution.
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Hocus Pocus / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Hocus Pocus / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: When the witches encounter Binx in cat form, they mock him for failing to save Emily. He hisses at them in response.
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Hocus Pocus / int_352def2a	type	Burn the Witch!
Hocus Pocus / int_352def2a	comment	Burn the Witch!: Averted in a Disney film! The witches are hanged, just like the real "witches" of Salem. (Of course, this is a rare case where the "victims" are truly guilty of witchcraft.) Subverted later. The kids trick them into a walk-in kiln and burn them, figuring that's the way to get rid of a witch. They probably got the idea from Hansel and Gretel rather than the Salem witch trials. The candle's magic keeps them from perishing completely.
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Hocus Pocus / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Hocus Pocus / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills You…: Zigzagged. Winifred throws Binx from a great height, and he smashes against Emily's gravestone. This takes him out of the climactic fight because he's not dead but too injured to move. He only is allowed to die when the witches pass on at sunrise.
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Hocus Pocus / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Hocus Pocus / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: A comedic example, when the sisters are in "Satan"'s house, a decorative sign reads "A Rotten Dog Lives Here". Moments later, they're chased out of the house by an extremely small dog. Likewise, a sign that the witches are Not Quite Dead after apparently being burned up in the school kiln is their spell on the adults (and Binx) has not ceased. Sure enough, they step out unharmed. Right before the "daylight savings" trick, the camera closes up on the headlights on their SUV.
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Hocus Pocus / int_38f3321	type	Compelling Voice
Hocus Pocus / int_38f3321	comment	Compelling Voice: Sarah's primary power - her song about halfway through the movie calls all the children in Salem to the Sanderson sisters' home, and lets the viewers know that she isn't as harmless as she appears to be (up to this point, she played the part of The Ditz and was Winifred's punching bag). You can hear Sarah sing at the beginning of the film as that's how she lures Emily Binx to the Sanderson sisters' cottage and kicks off the plot.
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Hocus Pocus / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Hocus Pocus / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Winifred says "Hello, Salem! My name's Winifred, what's yours?" in a nod to the famous line from Gypsy. Mama Rose says "Hello world, my name is Rose, what's yours?". Midler played Mama Rose in the TV version of the musical later the same year. Mary says to her sister "Winifred, thou art divine". A clear nod to Midler's nickname 'The Divine Miss M'. Max's father Dave telling him to watch his language. Dave is played by Charles Rockett, who was infamous for swearing on Saturday Night Live.
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Hocus Pocus / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Hocus Pocus / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Just as Max grabs the potion, Winifred is holding Dani hostage and threatening to snap her neck unless Max surrenders the bottle. Max then takes a deep breath and gulps quietly. He proceeds to swallow the potion, signing his life away in exchange for his sister's. Binx only gives a calm meoooow before being allowed to die. His ghost tells Dani to not be sad because his soul is finally free. Of all the three, Sarah has the decency to act like a Graceful Loser when sunrise comes. She merely spreads her arms and bids farewell to her sisters.
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Hocus Pocus / int_3a967286	type	Handsome Lech
Hocus Pocus / int_3a967286	comment	Handsome Lech: Sarah is a rare female example. It's honestly shocking for a Disney film that she flirts with every single male she comes across—from Thackeray to Max to Billy to a random bus driver to Max's bullies to a random costumed man at the party...the list goes on and on. And despite being rather attractive and flirtatious, there is no evidence to suggest she actually is successful with men or boys. Moreover, her idea of fun probably isn't what most men anticipate. When they are deciding what to do with Binx, Sarah says, "Hang him on a hook and...let me play with him?" in a very suggestive but creepy manner.
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Hocus Pocus / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Hocus Pocus / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: In the sequel story, it's revealed that Max bought a safe specifically to hold what remains of the Black Flame Candle and tried (and failed) to get the Sanderson house bulldozed after the events of the first movie.
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Hocus Pocus / int_3cd3a0f1	type	Femme Fatalons
Hocus Pocus / int_3cd3a0f1	comment	Femme Fatalons: Winifred's sharp nails.
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Hocus Pocus / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Hocus Pocus / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder:
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Hocus Pocus / int_3d1fbeb3	type	Virgin Power
Hocus Pocus / int_3d1fbeb3	comment	Virgin Power: A virgin can resurrect the witches. Probably only a virgin can, and while Winnie probably meant a maiden witch in training... well:
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Hocus Pocus / int_3d897748	type	Do Not Go Gentle
Hocus Pocus / int_3d897748	comment	Do Not Go Gentle: When he drinks the potion so that Winifred has to take his life instead of Dani's, Max proceeds to grapple with Winifred while they're both on top of her broomstick. He may die, but he's not going to sit and wait for her to suck out his youth.
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Hocus Pocus / int_3f39fd36	type	Credits Pushback
Hocus Pocus / int_3f39fd36	comment	Credits Pushback: Because of this, the Disney Channel no longer airs The Stinger for the movie.
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Hocus Pocus / int_41acc7e	type	A Hell of a Time
Hocus Pocus / int_41acc7e	comment	A Hell of a Time: According to Winifred, hell is quite lovely.
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Hocus Pocus / int_4215e705	type	Graceful Ladies Like Purple
Hocus Pocus / int_4215e705	comment	Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Sarah - the prettiest and most feminine of the sisters - is color-coded with purple. As she's a witch, there's some overlap with Purple Is Powerful and Technicolor Magic.
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Hocus Pocus / int_42995bec	type	Spell Book
Hocus Pocus / int_42995bec	comment	Spell Book: Bound in human skin, and emblazoned with a living human eye, no less.
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Hocus Pocus / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Hocus Pocus / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Binx as well. Max and Dani are about as sharp as bowling balls, with Allison flip-flopping between good decisions and bad ones. Downplayed in that Max is the only one Binx routinely gets frustrated with.
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Hocus Pocus / int_43b6fb56	type	Vain Sorceress
Hocus Pocus / int_43b6fb56	comment	Vain Sorceress: The witch sisters are delighted to have become young and beautiful again in the prologue after draining life from a child. Winifred also flips out when she's called ugly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Hocus Pocus / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: The Sanderson sisters drain Emily's life and intend to do so with all the children of Salem.
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Hocus Pocus / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Hocus Pocus / int_47fea76b	comment	Butt-Monkey: Max, whose virginity is repeatedly invoked and commented on. Billy Butcherson easily suffers the most physical abuse of any character, getting his head knocked off on two separate occasions, and his fingers crushed when he's coming out of the sewers and a motorcycle rides over the top of the lid. That's not even going into Winifred poisoning him and sewing his mouth shut so that he can't speak even in death.
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Hocus Pocus / int_48081842	type	The Stinger
Hocus Pocus / int_48081842	comment	Because some televised versions of the film edited out The Stinger, many viewers may be left wondering what happened to the adults at the Halloween party who were cursed to "dance until they die". In The Stinger they're shown leaving the party in an exhausted mass.
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Hocus Pocus / int_48de3cc6	type	The Music Meister
Hocus Pocus / int_48de3cc6	comment	The Music Meister: Winifred enchants a town hall full of partygoers to literally dance themselves to death (fortunately, Winifred dies, breaking the spell, before they can get to that point).
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Hocus Pocus / int_49cf2258	type	Hanging Around
Hocus Pocus / int_49cf2258	comment	Hanging Around: In the beginning portion of the film that is set in the past, the Sanderson sisters are hanged by the townspeople when they are discovered to be witches who suck the life-forces of little children to prolong their lives.
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Hocus Pocus / int_4c3f14e0	type	You Are Too Late
Hocus Pocus / int_4c3f14e0	comment	You Are Too Late: The angry mob that comes for the witches arrives after Emily is dead and Thackery has been turned into a cat. Mr. Binx, their father, has the pleasure of finding Emily's desiccated corpse in the cottage, and can only angrily ask the witches where his son is. They refuse to answer, even after being threatened with the gallows. Mr. Binx can at least avenge his children by hanging the witches, but he's unaware of the black cat trying to reach out to him.
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Hocus Pocus / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Hocus Pocus / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Winnie can fire painful electrical blasts from her fingers.
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Hocus Pocus / int_4e34d653	type	See You in Hell
Hocus Pocus / int_4e34d653	comment	See You in Hell:
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Hocus Pocus / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Hocus Pocus / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The scene of Emily dying, and her corpse slumped over with grey hair. That's when we know the witches aren't playing around. Max drinking the potion in the climax. It changes the stakes from "keeping Dani safe" to "Holding The Line to save Max".
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Hocus Pocus / int_4eb5691c	type	Squashed Flat
Hocus Pocus / int_4eb5691c	comment	Squashed Flat: A more dramatic version of the trope, but Thackery as a cat is squashed by a bus and his chest is visibly flattened against the road. Although he is believed to be dead by the other characters, he is healed shortly after due to his immortality curse.
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Hocus Pocus / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
Hocus Pocus / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Winifred is subtly implied to be a female example; while Bette Midler underwent a decent amount of Beauty Inversion to play the buck-toothed, browless, Uncanny Valley Makeup-sporting witch, adult men treat Winifred as though she's just as attractive as Mary (who, apart from the weird way she contorts her mouth, is a Big Beautiful Woman) and Sarah (whose Brainless Beauty status is ninety percent of her character). The teen boys of the film heavily disagree.
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Hocus Pocus / int_50ae8e55	type	Little Miss Snarker
Hocus Pocus / int_50ae8e55	comment	Little Miss Snarker: Dani comments on Max's crush on Allison and lack of sex life in general. She also snarks almost every other opportunity. After Max lights the black flame candle and all manner of visuals and sound effects occur:
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Hocus Pocus / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Hocus Pocus / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Pissing off Winnie usually gets you this. Thackery Binx was already going to have his life sucked out of him for trying to stop the witches from killing his sister, but he makes the mistake of calling Winifred a hag and is instead damned to a Fate Worse than Death in the form of being trapped in the form of a black cat... for all eternity... living with his failure. In the case of Billy Butcherson, Winnie's lover. Winnie poisoned him and sewed his mouth shut after she caught him sporting with Sarah.
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Hocus Pocus / int_50cc01e1	type	Do Not Call Me "Paul"
Hocus Pocus / int_50cc01e1	comment	Do Not Call Me "Paul": One of the two bad boys, "Ice", hates being called "Ernie."
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Hocus Pocus / int_52ecdc65	type	Rhyming Wizardry
Hocus Pocus / int_52ecdc65	comment	Rhyming Wizardry: All of the Sanderson Sisters' Black Magic spells rhyme, which lends well to turning them into songs through Compelling Voice, such as in "Come Little Children" and "I'll Put a Spell on You". However, they are also able to use lower-grade magic without rhyming (such as when zapping Max and Thackery).
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Hocus Pocus / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
Hocus Pocus / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: Dani to Binx near the end. It's harsher than the standard because he was immortal up until then, which Dani tearfully states.
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Hocus Pocus / int_54fbf23f	type	Seeking Sanctuary
Hocus Pocus / int_54fbf23f	comment	Seeking Sanctuary: Cemeteries are hallowed ground, and any witch who sets foot on hallowed ground gets turned to stone.
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Hocus Pocus / int_55172a70	type	Zombie Gait
Hocus Pocus / int_55172a70	comment	Zombie Gait: Billy's silly zombie stumble.
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Hocus Pocus / int_55ec42d7	type	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe
Hocus Pocus / int_55ec42d7	comment	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: The Sanderson sisters, and Thackeray and Emily Binx, and the rest of the Salem townsfolk in 1693. By the time of the main narrative, 300 years later, Binx no longer talks like that, presumably because he was influenced by the change around him in the English language over time. The witch sisters have not because they've been dead all this time. Played with on the bus: One egregious example:
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Hocus Pocus / int_583ec33e	type	Snark-to-Snark Combat
Hocus Pocus / int_583ec33e	comment	Snark-to-Snark Combat: Max and Binx, so much. For every comment Max makes, Binx has one of his own.
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Hocus Pocus / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Hocus Pocus / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted — the apparent cop who bullies the children and insults Max's manhood is only in costume.
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Hocus Pocus / int_59d599ec	type	Unexpectedly Real Magic
Hocus Pocus / int_59d599ec	comment	Unexpectedly Real Magic: When Allison takes Dani and Max to the witches museum on Halloween showing them the Sanderson Sinsters' home and possessions, including the Black Flame Candle, which will bring them back to life for one night when lit by a virgin on All Hallows Eve, Max, who happens to be a virgin, sarcastically suggests lighting it and meeting them. After being attacked by Binx the cat, the girls want to leave, but Max dismisses it all as "a bunch of hocus pocus" and lights the candle. The flame turns black and the witches come back. Hilarity Ensues.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5af55436	type	Forced to Watch
Hocus Pocus / int_5af55436	comment	Forced to Watch: Thackeray Binx fails to save Emily and is forced to see her life getting sucked out of her.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5b92d2f	type	Virgin-Shaming
Hocus Pocus / int_5b92d2f	comment	Virgin-Shaming: The fake motorcycle cop mocks Max by acting disbelieving that he is one. Dani uses 'virgin' as an insult several times, but as mentioned above, it's implied that she doesn't really know what a virgin is other than something Max is annoyed at being reminded applies to him.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5c26386e	type	City Shout Outs
Hocus Pocus / int_5c26386e	comment	City Shout Outs: The Sanderson sisters hijack Max's warning by treating it as if he was introducing their musical number (aka "I Put a Spell on You"). Furthermore, they enchant the party-goers by getting them to engage with the song. Once she's got their interest piqued, Winifred salutes the city of Salem.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5e9cddcc	type	Fake Wizardry
Hocus Pocus / int_5e9cddcc	comment	Fake Wizardry: Max is able to scare the witches long enough to flee with his friends by convincing them that he has powerful magic. He does this by setting off the sprinkler system with a lighter, neither of which the witches have ever seen.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5f4c3290	type	Skeptic No Longer
Hocus Pocus / int_5f4c3290	comment	Skeptic No Longer: Max initially makes jokes about the witches, and believes that Halloween itself is a candy company conspiracy. Then the witches show up, he is berated by a talking cat, and is then onboard with the "magic is real" message. Max and Allison's daughter in the sequel believes her parents' story about what happened with the Sanderson sisters is just them being ridiculous, and says as much to them. And then she goes to the Sanderson house on a Halloween that coincides with a blood moon and ends up waking the Sanderson sisters herself.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5f611b7e	type	Good All Along
Hocus Pocus / int_5f611b7e	comment	Good All Along: Billy Butcherson turns out to be this by the end of the movie, helping the kids protect themselves against the witches to the best of his abilities. The only reason the kids - and the audience - didn't know was because his mouth was sewn shut by Winnie.
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Hocus Pocus / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Hocus Pocus / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Mary Sanderson is clearly implied to be this with children. How else do you think she got so much bigger than her sisters?
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Hocus Pocus / int_5ff9310b	type	Painful Transformation
Hocus Pocus / int_5ff9310b	comment	Painful Transformation: Thackery Binx's transformation into a cat is intentionally painful because this trope was invoked by the Sanderson sisters.
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Hocus Pocus / int_60414102	type	Zombie Apocalypse
Hocus Pocus / int_60414102	comment	Zombie Apocalypse: Averted; it's just one zombie and he's not exactly evil.
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Hocus Pocus / int_614ab353	type	Witch with a Capital "B"
Hocus Pocus / int_614ab353	comment	Witch with a Capital "B": Winnie does this in a nod to Elton John during "I Put a Spell on You"; see Shout-Out.
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Hocus Pocus / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Hocus Pocus / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: Billy starts out chasing the children. They just barely manage to slip out of his arms at the party — in front of their parents, no less. (Mom wishes she had a camera.) Ultimately, he sides with them after he rips out the threads holding his mouth shut.
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Hocus Pocus / int_61996785	type	Sacrificial Lamb
Hocus Pocus / int_61996785	comment	Sacrificial Lamb: Emily is the movie's first casualty, ten minutes after the credits roll. From what we see she was a sweet girl whom Thackery would protect with his life. As a ghost, she playfully calls to Thackery when welcoming him to heaven.
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Hocus Pocus / int_61ad6989	type	Teen Hater
Hocus Pocus / int_61ad6989	comment	Teen Hater: After two firemen come to shut off the "burning rain of death", they express contempt for teenagers on Halloween once they exit the house.
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Hocus Pocus / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Hocus Pocus / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: Contrast with Winifred's offense at Dani calling her "Ugly."
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Hocus Pocus / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Hocus Pocus / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The final shot before the credits shows the book waking up again, implying that either the sisters STILL aren't gone for good or some other evil force is calling to it. A sequel materialized 25 years later in the form of a novel. The sequel novel also has this at the ending. Poppy realizes that Winifred's book has gone missing, and then exactly one year later a teenage warlock uses it to re-awaken his brother, Billy, again.
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Hocus Pocus / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Hocus Pocus / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: In the cable version, the "phone number" that Max ostentatiously hands to Alison is just the famous 555 exchange...and nothing else. The real movie contains a seven-digit 555 number.
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Hocus Pocus / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
Hocus Pocus / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Winnie.
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Hocus Pocus / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
Hocus Pocus / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The Sandersons might be dysfunctional as it gets, but Winnie never once considers sacrificing her sisters or leaving them behind in her quest for immortality even if she's exasperated with them regularly. Any mention of their mother will also result in the three bowing their heads reverently. Not to mention Mary trying rush to Winnie’s aid when Max nearly causes Winnie to fall off her broom when she’s trying to suck his life force.
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Hocus Pocus / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Hocus Pocus / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: The kids fight against witches and zombies without any kind of special power of their own.
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Hocus Pocus / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Hocus Pocus / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Inverted; if someone had lit the candle and killed the witches permanently, Binx would be allowed to move on to the afterlife. Binx wouldn't even consider that option because it's too dangerous and has prevented numerous "airhead virgins" from doing such a thing. Binx leaps onto Winifred when the latter threatens Dani, so that the latter drops the life potion. Winifred in response knocks him off her broom, injuring Binx. He's later able to pass on after he sees the witches defeated and Dani safe. Subverted. Max interferes with the witches' plans in order to save Dani, offering up his life in exchange for hers. He doesn't go down without a fight, however, and grapples with Winifred so she can't absorb his life. Unfortunately for the Sanderson sisters, and fortunately for Max, they are out of time, not helped by the fact that Winifred set foot on hallowed ground to get at Max, something that witches can't do.
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Hocus Pocus / int_6774150c	type	If I Can't Have Youâ€¦
Hocus Pocus / int_6774150c	comment	If I Can't Have You…: Winifred's reason behind killing her ex-boyfriend is that he dumped her/cheated on her with her sister.
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Hocus Pocus / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
Hocus Pocus / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Thackery Binx and Max are both deeply protective of their little sisters, and Binx projects a lot of his feelings about Emily onto Dani. Dani inverts this, as when Winifred zaps Max with her lightning, she yells at her to leave him alone and smacks her with her trick-or-treat bag. Despite being a Big Sister Bully, Winifred gets a moment of this when she yanks Mary and Sarah after her to avoid the "burning rain of death".
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Hocus Pocus / int_6aba1c67	type	Idiotic Partner Confession
Hocus Pocus / int_6aba1c67	comment	Idiotic Partner Confession: At the beginning of the film, the Sanderson sisters are trying to convince the angry mob that they are not witches:
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Hocus Pocus / int_6c75e0e4	type	Beware the Silly Ones
Hocus Pocus / int_6c75e0e4	comment	Beware the Silly Ones: Sarah skips along in a daze, "prattling idiotically" in the words of her elder sister, but her voice can lead children to their deaths. Mary is not much further off. She may be bumbling and comical, but she is the tracker after all and is even implied to be most voracious of the three sisters. Jay and Ice are a nonlethal version. They are rather dumb, but most of their time onscreen consists of them bullying, stealing, destroying Halloween decorations, and generally going out of their way to make other kids miserable.
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Hocus Pocus / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Hocus Pocus / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Even after 300 years, Binx is still beating himself up over Emily's death.
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Hocus Pocus / int_6ef6417b	type	Disney Death
Hocus Pocus / int_6ef6417b	comment	Disney Death: Binx revives after being crushed by the bus. In a darkly humorous twist, it only seems this way because the characters (and presumably the audience) forgot that he couldn't die (though it also sets up his death later). When he revives, he shrugs it off like it was nothing and is legitimately surprised that the others were concerned.
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Hocus Pocus / int_704d7e91	type	No Ontological Inertia
Hocus Pocus / int_704d7e91	comment	No Ontological Inertia: The party-goers are cursed to dance until they die. The curse ends when the witches die. The curses binding Binx and Billy to life also break. A zigzagged example is when after the Sandersons are led to burn in the school kiln and the group believes they have won, Binx is still alive as a talking cat, and Allison believes another spell is necessary to undo the curse. It turns out to be because the witches are not truly dead yet.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Hocus Pocus / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: In the prologue, Mr. Binx yells out for everyone to cover their ears (which doesn't seem to do anything) instead of, you know, carrying out the execution immediately. The guy holding the book drops it to obey this order, and it opens for Winifred to cast her resurrection spell. In the climax, Dani climbs out of the protected salt-circle (which is Billy's grave), to get his head back for him, which he probably would have done on his own eventually anyway, allowing Winifred to snatch her off the sacred ground. Somewhat justified due to her age.
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Hocus Pocus / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Hocus Pocus / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: The Sanderson sisters avoid wearing the typical black of witches, each sporting very colorful dresses that correspond to the color of the magical effects associated with them. Winifred is associated with green, Sarah with pink and purple, Mary with red.
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Hocus Pocus / int_74abf030	type	Summon to Hand
Hocus Pocus / int_74abf030	comment	Summon to Hand: If the spellbook is nearby, Winnifred can call to it and it will float over to her.
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Hocus Pocus / int_75979171	type	The Cuckoolander Was Right
Hocus Pocus / int_75979171	comment	The Cuckoolander Was Right: Winnie tries to remember the life potion's recipe but gets stuck at a dead man's....something. Aforementioned Cuckoolander Sarah abruptly shouts out "Dead man's toe!" but is shushed. As Mary and Winifred continue to try to remember the ingredient, Sarah shrugs and wanders off screen.
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Hocus Pocus / int_767caf1f	type	Multiple Demographic Appeal
Hocus Pocus / int_767caf1f	comment	Multiple Demographic Appeal: A major reason that the film ended up being a Cult Classic instead of "just another kids' movie". It's just dark enough to satisfy viewers who came in expecting a horror movie, with enough humor to satisfy viewers who might have preferred a comedy, enough child and teenage characters to appeal to younger viewers, a love story for fans of romance, a musical number from Bette Midler and co. for music-lovers, and a surprisingly earnest story of sibling love for viewers who might prefer a drama.
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Hocus Pocus / int_776a06eb	type	All Myths Are True
Hocus Pocus / int_776a06eb	comment	All Myths Are True: Winifred believes that the man in the devil costume, who she thinks is the actual devil, is married to Medusa
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Hocus Pocus / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Hocus Pocus / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: Max's defensive weapon of choice is a wooden baseball bat. Unfortunately for him Winifred is a lot stronger than she looks; she bare hands his stick mid-swing, yanking it from his grip to toss it aside like a useless twig.
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Hocus Pocus / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
Hocus Pocus / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: The idea for the story came about when David Kirschner (writer) encountered the neighborhood cat while with his daughter. He then jokingly told her the cat was really a boy who was transformed by witches to which she became very fascinated and wanted to know more. He then created the basis that would become Hocus Pocus.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7960ab92	type	Sanity Ball
Hocus Pocus / int_7960ab92	comment	Sanity Ball: It's briefly held by Sarah and Mary when they point out to Winifred that they don't need to chase after Max and Dani because they've already got a kid to feed their potion to, and thanks to Sarah's singing more are coming to the house. They can always make more potion afterwards because they've got the book back, but Winifred's too dead set on getting back at Dani for calling her "ugly" to care.
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Hocus Pocus / int_79c34029	type	The Nose Knows
Hocus Pocus / int_79c34029	comment	The Nose Knows: Mary can smell children from very far away (possibly a Shout-Out to Hansel and Gretel); this leads to a rather humorous scene, where she can smell them all over the place, but can't see them, and starts to lament that she may have lost her powers. They're all in plain sight, but the Halloween costumes are confusing all three of them, being a tradition that came after their time. An interesting case of Shown Their Work, at that; the original purpose of dressing in costumes on All Hallow's Eve was to hide from monsters, and the Sandersons certainly qualify.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7b454a57	type	White Sheep
Hocus Pocus / int_7b454a57	comment	Allison's ancestor is a good witch named Elizabeth Podbury, which could explain her knowledge of witchcraft. The novelization expands on this: her full name was Elizabeth Sanderson Podbury, and she was the family's White Sheep.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
Hocus Pocus / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: The witches are surprisingly comedic considering the fact that they drain the life out of children, particularly Sarah.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7eb49b31	type	Almost Kiss
Hocus Pocus / int_7eb49b31	comment	Almost Kiss: Max and Allison nearly kiss right when Dani is stolen from their house.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Hocus Pocus / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: The three witches were about to go easy on the two bullies and leave... Until they called them ugly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Hocus Pocus / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Depends on whether Winifred needed it to cast the comeback curse, but the guy who dropped the spellbook to cover his ears certainly doesn't win any points. Max lights the enchanted candle to impress Allison, showing that he's not afraid of an old legend. Binx nearly says the trope name when he reveals to Max he can talk. Hoping to undo the curse cast on Binx, Allison and Max open the spellbook to find an answer, only for it to emit a glowing orange light that gives away their exact location to the witches. Subverted when Dani calls Winifred ugly. While it means that the witches are gunning for her, it also means they ignore the dozens of hypnotized children they could devour. Then it gets Zig-Zagged at the end where Binx after he dies tells Emily's spirit that he took so long to die because he had to wait for a "virgin" to light the candle. The witches wouldn't have come back, but Binx would have stayed in cat form for an eternity.
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Hocus Pocus / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Hocus Pocus / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Sarah's first appearance after being resurrected. Winifred's first line is also a pretty good character establisher.
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Hocus Pocus / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Hocus Pocus / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: During Max's run-in with the bullies, when Max doesn't have any cash or cigarettes to give them, "Ice" mockingly asks what he's supposed to do with his afternoon. Max suggests that he learn to breathe through his nose, and Jay starts laughing until "Ice" glares at him.
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Hocus Pocus / int_815556aa	type	Tome of Eldritch Lore
Hocus Pocus / int_815556aa	comment	Tome of Eldritch Lore: Winifred's spellbook. Bound in human skin (complete with human eyeball) and given to her by Satan himself. Plus, it's at least partially sentient.
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Hocus Pocus / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Hocus Pocus / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: All three of the witches, but Bette Midler as Winifred is unquestionably the biggest one in the whole film. Best exemplified by the scene where she tries to out-yowl a cat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_82d2715f	type	Magitek
Hocus Pocus / int_82d2715f	comment	Magitek: Possibly how Mary was able to activate her vacuum cleaner unplugged.
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Hocus Pocus / int_82fc5bdf	type	Bratty Half-Pint
Hocus Pocus / int_82fc5bdf	comment	Bratty Half-Pint: Dani keeps mocking her brother for being a virgin. It's possible she just doesn't know what it means but she does still keep saying it to get a rise out of him. She also mocks her brother's attraction to Allison and to Allison's "yabbos" in particular.
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Hocus Pocus / int_850e84d5	type	Eye Awaken
Hocus Pocus / int_850e84d5	comment	Eye Awaken: The book is alert at the end of the movie.
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Hocus Pocus / int_853b7948	type	Ambiguously Evil
Hocus Pocus / int_853b7948	comment	Ambiguously Evil: Whereas Winnie is evil and scheming, Sarah and Mary are basically dumb and more or less harmless — until Sarah's Not So Harmless moment. If Winnie wasn't around they probably wouldn't even be villains.
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Hocus Pocus / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Hocus Pocus / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: What happened to the three girls who took the Sandersons' brooms? The last we saw of Max's house was the Sanderson sisters completely destroying the top floor. One wonders what his parents will think when they finally get home. Because some televised versions of the film edited out The Stinger, many viewers may be left wondering what happened to the adults at the Halloween party who were cursed to "dance until they die". In The Stinger they're shown leaving the party in an exhausted mass. Max, Dani, Allison, and Binx leave the bullies Jay and Ernie aka ICE stuck in the cages in The Sanderson Sisters house after Max, Allison, and Binx rescue Dani from having her soul drained by The Sanderson Sisters and they're still there during the final stinger when the spell book reawakens. Do they starve? The stinger scene (which is usually edited out of Freeform airings) shows Jay and Ice singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" while still in their cages.
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Hocus Pocus / int_86f4f393	type	Stating the Simple Solution
Hocus Pocus / int_86f4f393	comment	Stating the Simple Solution: Max tries to burn the witch's book after Binx tells him and Allison that it's pure evil. Unfortunately, one cigarette lighter isn't enough to do the job.
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Hocus Pocus / int_87e661e8	type	Absurdly Spacious Sewer
Hocus Pocus / int_87e661e8	comment	Absurdly-Spacious Sewer: Max, Dani, and Allison have to flee the witches and zombie Billy Butcherson by following Thackery into the sewers, which are filled with spiders and mice, which is what Thackery eats like a cat! Very squicky to the trio.
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Hocus Pocus / int_887da4ea	type	Died Happily Ever After
Hocus Pocus / int_887da4ea	comment	Died Happily Ever After: After the witches are defeated, Billy happily goes to his grave. He takes the time to say farewell to the kids, and accept Max's thanks for helping them. Thackery and Emily go to Heaven at the end. Thackery consoles a grieving Dani.
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Hocus Pocus / int_8c4bafff	type	Holy Burns Evil
Hocus Pocus / int_8c4bafff	comment	Holy Burns Evil: When Winifred sneezes, a passing little girl (in costume as an Angel) says "Bless you!" prompting all three sisters to react with horror. As per the spell that only resurrected them for one night, the Sanderson sisters will be turned to dust when the sun rises. Witches can't set foot on hallowed ground and when Winifred tries to quickly kill Max in the graveyard before sunrise, she's turned into a stone statue for standing in a holy place. As if that weren't enough, when the sunlight hits the statue, it explodes.
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Hocus Pocus / int_8cf6aa	type	Literal Metaphor
Hocus Pocus / int_8cf6aa	comment	Literal Metaphor: "I Put a Spell on You" as sung by Winnie, is not just a song.
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Hocus Pocus / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Hocus Pocus / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Max lighting the candle might've been stupid, but it's understandable that someone wouldn't believe it. What is unbelievably stupid was Allison not just keeping a book made by the devil, but opening it and trying to use its power herself. She even read that part herself.
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Hocus Pocus / int_8e13262d	type	Virginity Makes You Stupid
Hocus Pocus / int_8e13262d	comment	Virginity Makes You Stupid: Dani begins using "virgin" as practically a synonym for "idiot" after Max lights the candle, though it's implied that she doesn't really know what a virgin is (other than something Max is really annoyed to be called).
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Hocus Pocus / int_916c72b3	type	Rule of Symbolism
Hocus Pocus / int_916c72b3	comment	Rule of Symbolism: Pay very close attention to the background during the climax, after Binx attacks Winifred and is thrown to the ground: the grave he landed by is that of his sister. After Thackery is reunited with his sister as spirits, the last shot of them is them standing before a graveyard's gate, much like the gates of Heaven.
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Hocus Pocus / int_934eb07f	type	Resurrective Immortality
Hocus Pocus / int_934eb07f	comment	Resurrective Immortality: Thackery is cursed with the ability to revive from anything that kills him.
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Hocus Pocus / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Hocus Pocus / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: At the end, Max either has to give up the potion or Winifred will kill Dani, threatening to snap her neck. If he does give up the potion, Winifred will force-feed Dani the potion to suck out her life. What does he do? He drinks the potion instead, effectively cheating Winifred out of Dani's life by forcing her to take him instead.
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Hocus Pocus / int_97025971	type	Special Occasions Are Magic
Hocus Pocus / int_97025971	comment	Special Occasions Are Magic: The Sanderson sisters may only be summoned on Halloween night (with the additional requirements of it being a full moon and the person who lights the candle being a virgin).
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Hocus Pocus / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Hocus Pocus / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Winifred Sanderson is the clear leader among the sisters.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9793f1b9	type	Solitary Sorceress
Hocus Pocus / int_9793f1b9	comment	Solitary Sorceress: The witches' cottage seems to be just outside of old Salem (but not so far as to be inaccessible to the mob), though by the modern day it's within the limits of the town.
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Hocus Pocus / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Hocus Pocus / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The witches could have won if they'd given the potion to the two bullies, but Winifred wanted specifically to consume the life force of Dani, who had called her ugly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_984763bb	type	555
Hocus Pocus / int_984763bb	comment	555: The phone number Max gives to Allison at school.
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Hocus Pocus / int_98f94ce6	type	Parent Service
Hocus Pocus / int_98f94ce6	comment	Parent Service: Sarah shows a lot of cleavage, and you get a very good view of her cleavage during the second singing of "Come Little Children".
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Hocus Pocus / int_9b06e314	type	Greater-Scope Villain
Hocus Pocus / int_9b06e314	comment	Greater-Scope Villain: The witch sisters claim to have received their powers from the Devil, thus making him responsible for all their evil. However, the fallen angel is otherwise not involved in the plot.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Hocus Pocus / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Thackery as a human wasn't even able to strike a blow against the witches since they incapacitated him. In cat form, he proves to be far more formidable. Max has a hard time fending off two bullies, and is made fun of a lot. When the witches appear, he has the presence of mind to bluff long enough to get Dani out of the cottage. By the end of the movie he drinks a life-draining potion to save Dani and grapples with Winifred in time for dawn to come.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9bfa1697	type	Eye of Newt
Hocus Pocus / int_9bfa1697	comment	Eye of Newt: Winifred's Life Drain potion in the prologue uses a bunch of odd ingredients, like a hair from her head and a dead man's toe. Later, the Black Flame Candle is said to be made from the fat of a hanged man.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
Hocus Pocus / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: The Sandersons. Sarah the youngest is the Maiden, Mary the right hand one to Winnie is the Matron, and Winnie takes on the role of the Crone.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Hocus Pocus / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: "This is hallowed ground. Witches can't set foot here." "Oh, look. Another glorious morning. Makes me SICK!"
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Hocus Pocus / int_9de3695d	type	Alto Villainess
Hocus Pocus / int_9de3695d	comment	Alto Villainess: Winnie, with the voice of Bette Midler backing her up.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9e09fbd7	type	New-Age Retro Hippie
Hocus Pocus / int_9e09fbd7	comment	New-Age Retro Hippie: Max appears to be this at first, and gets treated this way by most of the other characters, and who can blame them? Max does wear a tie-dyed T-shirt and harbors radical left-wing beliefs (such as his suspicion that Halloween is actually a conspiracy on the part of the candy companies). He ultimately subverts the stereotype when he's offered a marijuana cigarette and he turns it down.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9e2c893	type	Black Magic
Hocus Pocus / int_9e2c893	comment	Black Magic: Mind Control, life-stealing, turning people into cats... Lots of nasty, dark stuff here.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Hocus Pocus / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: In the beginning, Thackeray fails to save his little sister from the Sanderson sisters, and she is murdered onscreen. Emily's death casts a shadow over the rest of the film, and haunts Binx as an immortal cat. Binx dies for real at the end of the movie. One last meooow and he closes his eyes. It doesn't help that he looks so peaceful in death, as Danni tearfully tries to rouse him.
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Hocus Pocus / int_9fb41dce	type	The Weird Sisters
Hocus Pocus / int_9fb41dce	comment	The Weird Sisters: The plot revolves around the Evil Plan of three witches, the Sanderson sisters, to suck out the souls of the children of Salem, Massachusetts.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
Hocus Pocus / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal: The witches spend much of the time trying to capture and kill Dani, but when she calls Winifred ugly, this very trope makes her even more determined to capture and kill Dani. This is not helped by Max knocking over the cauldron full of the witches' brew, leaving only enough left for one child.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
Hocus Pocus / int_a188ac4b	comment	When Poppy meets Binx in the sequel, his very first words refer to the Overly-Long Gag of the first one.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a195379b	type	Murder by Cremation
Hocus Pocus / int_a195379b	comment	Murder by Cremation: The main characters do this to the trio of witches. However, they are later revived by their magic book, and the kids have to come up with a different plan.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Hocus Pocus / int_a1a1491e	comment	Also, the "I Put a Spell on You" number is an homage to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who wrote the song, although the original actually started with "I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine."
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Hocus Pocus / int_a211849	type	Life Energy
Hocus Pocus / int_a211849	comment	Life Energy: With the help of a potion, the witches could just take a few long whiffs and their victim will be dead.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a5bf8f66	type	Reduced to Dust
Hocus Pocus / int_a5bf8f66	comment	Reduced to Dust: The Sanderson Witches die this way when the power of the Black Flame Candle runs out. Rather than have their bodies become dust bit by bit when it happens, they explode (though Winnie turns into a statue because she’s on holy ground before she blows up herself).
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Hocus Pocus / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Hocus Pocus / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: A few of the movie's humorous moments make very little sense from a character or story standpoint, but are nonetheless kept in because they're hilarious. To name a couple of examples: Why do the Sanderson Sisters try to be discreet when Max calls them out at the party, only to lap up the spotlight when it's turned right on them, 5 seconds later? Because both are hilarious, that's why.note Also, while they may be trying to avoid attention, once the spotlight is on them, they've already been "caught", so Refuge in Audacity is their best bet to escape at that point. In the scene where Winnifred catches up to Max's car on her broomstick, she jokingly pretends to be a traffic cop pulling him over, even asking him for his registration. How does she know what a traffic cop is when she didn't even know what a car was a few hours earlier? Who cares? It's hilarious!
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Hocus Pocus / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Hocus Pocus / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Emily was buried in the churchyard, in hallowed ground. Her brother in cat form dies on her grave.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Hocus Pocus / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: If the teacher's lesson at the beginning of the time transition is any indication, the discovery and execution of the Sanderson sisters have altered how the Salem Witch Trials are perceived in hindsight: instead of a gross miscarriage of justice, it became known as an infamous hunting ground for three murderesses who were rumored to be witches.
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Hocus Pocus / int_a939d96a	type	Adults Are Useless
Hocus Pocus / int_a939d96a	comment	Adults Are Useless: Zig-Zagged in the Cold Open. While the angry mob is too late to save Emily and Thackery, they do manage to catch and hang the witches. For some reason they don't think to bury the candle that would bring the witches back, and instead their descendants use it as a tourist attraction. The children tried to get help from their parents and the rest of the party-goers. They don't believe them and think it's some kind of Halloween prank.note In their defense, the parents quickly catch on that something is in fact quite wrong and that their kids are serious... but the witches manage to catch on to how Halloween works in the modern day and play it off as a joke introduction for a song-and-dance number. Even before the supernatural comes into play, Max comes home obviously upset and without his shoes. His mother notices the latter, and his father assumes he's doing it as a protest, which she apparently accepts. Neither considers the obvious explanation that their son was fucking mugged. They also tried for help from the man they thought was a police officer. (He was only in costume.) In the sequel, it's Zig-Zagged again. Max, Allison and Dani are sent off to Hell before they can even start to help, Jay (now the school principal) is deliberately unhelpful because Max left him and Ernie in the cages, but Poppy and her friends do get help from an adultnote or two, depending on whether Binx qualifies as an adult, albeit one that's a ghost.
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Hocus Pocus / int_aa42306e	type	Totally Radical
Hocus Pocus / int_aa42306e	comment	Totally Radical: Only used by Jay and Ice to make fun of Max's California origins.
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Hocus Pocus / int_aac4eeae	type	Same Language Dub
Hocus Pocus / int_aac4eeae	comment	Same Language Dub: Sean Murray portrays Binx in human form, but Jason Marsden supplies his voice. The reason was that the creators decided mid-filming that Binx should have an English accent, but Murray wasn't able to do it very well. Thus, Marsden was brought on.
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Hocus Pocus / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Hocus Pocus / int_aba8065b	comment	Also, Winifred. See Fatal Flaw above.
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Hocus Pocus / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Hocus Pocus / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: Sarah's "Come, Little Children" doesn't work on Thackery, Elijah, Allison, or Max. It's unclear if they weren't affected because they weren't the targets, or because they are older teens. We know Max is old enough to drive a car, at least.
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Hocus Pocus / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Hocus Pocus / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Winnie basically defeats herself; with one small sample of potion left, she could use any of the children heading for the Sanderson house to complete her ritual, but she's determined to make Dani her victim after their recent conflict, which gives the kids the chance to lure the sisters away and delay them until sunrise.
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Hocus Pocus / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Hocus Pocus / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Billy reacts in this way twice, each time just before he (literally) loses his head. Mary waves bye-bye to signal that her own number is up. He also does a downplayed (and highly comical) version when he first rises from his grave, apparently confused as to what's going on. Then he turns and sees his own gravestone, and hangs his head along with a noise that is pretty clearly "Oh crap, I'm dead".
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Hocus Pocus / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Hocus Pocus / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Max and Binx. Winnie has her moments, as well.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b0b11c76	type	You Just Had to Say It
Hocus Pocus / int_b0b11c76	comment	You Just Had to Say It: When Winifred plots revenge against Dani:
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Hocus Pocus / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Hocus Pocus / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Binx is cursed to be an immortal cat, unable to talk for centuries, all because he called Winifred a hag. The party at the town hall, at least after the witches take over the proceedings. "Dance until you die!"
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Hocus Pocus / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Hocus Pocus / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: "This is hallowed ground. Witches can't set foot here." What they can do is hover over it and reanimate a corpse. Binx lampshades this, to Dani's dismay.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b2463ea1	type	Intellectual Animal
Hocus Pocus / int_b2463ea1	comment	Intellectual Animal: Binx can talk and knows a lot more about what's going on than anyone else. Justified in that he's really a boy who was forcibly transformed into a cat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b2f26025	type	Genki Girl
Hocus Pocus / int_b2f26025	comment	Genki Girl: Sarah is giddy and excited about everything.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Hocus Pocus / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: When he sees Winifred threatening Dani, Binx in cat form leaps on the witch and makes her drop the potion. It allows Max to save Dani, and everyone manages to fight the witches until sunrise. Binx is finally allowed to pass on.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Hocus Pocus / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Sarah gets the witches executed by her utter lack of discretion. She accidentally wakes Thackeray while charming Emily to follow her, and runs in the woods rather than taking the child on her broom. This allows Thackeray's neighbor to get help and raise an angry mob. When the mob comes, Sarah blurts out they're sucking the lives out of children. The kids during the final scenes in the graveyard. Dani is safely protected by a circle of salt - with enough space for the other two to join in the circle as well. Yet they opt to fight the witches outside of it. Then Dani decides to leave the circle to help Billy get his head back. This very nearly costs her her life and then almost her brother's. At least partly justified since a child her age would realistically make such decisions. Also, Winifred. See Fatal Flaw above.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b5e63cc4	type	Shadow Archetype
Hocus Pocus / int_b5e63cc4	comment	Shadow Archetype: Max begins the film extremely self-centered, over-dramatic, short-tempered and showing an enormous amount of disdain for his annoying but loving little sister. Comparisons are drawn with Max and Binx, but the stronger parallels are with Max and Winifred, an extremely self-centered, over-dramatic and short-tempered witch who despises her incompetent, yet devoted, younger sisters. Sarah and Mary follow Winifred into what will clearly be their own demise and die after a clumsy attempt to save her from Max, a gesture Winifred would hardly return.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b906ac5d	type	Whole Costume Reference
Hocus Pocus / int_b906ac5d	comment	Whole Costume Reference: Well, not the whole costume, but Winnie’s double-puffed heart-shaped updo hairstyle and bright red hair are a visual allusion to Elizabeth I’s preferred wig style later in her life (though Winnie’s is clearly her own hair pinned up- it’s white before she de-ages herself, and there are a few long locks of it that fall loose over the course of the movie). It does a good job hinting at how old she really is- Elizabeth was already dead for 90 years and fashion had moved on by the opening of the movie, so Winnie’s hair is out of date even for 1693.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b93caaae	type	Convenient Slow Dance
Hocus Pocus / int_b93caaae	comment	Convenient Slow Dance: Parodied: while the Sanderson sisters are in "The Master's" house, Sarah goes to "The Master" and says, "Master, wouldst thou dance with me?" She then makes a tender slow dance with him... until his wife shows up and sees them both dancing, which triggers her Berserk Button.
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Hocus Pocus / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
Hocus Pocus / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Thackary Binx is transformed into a cat by the Sanderson Sisters for attempting to stop their ritual and then insulting them. He was also cursed with immortality.
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Hocus Pocus / int_bafbff8f	type	Tom the Dark Lord
Hocus Pocus / int_bafbff8f	comment	Tom the Dark Lord: Winifred, Mary, and Sarah: not evil-sounding names. Sarah and Mary in particular are actually very common names, and while Winifred, a Welsh name, isn't especially common, it actually means "holy, blessed reconciliation"- characteristics she decidedly does not embody.note It's even more ironic in light of Saint Winifred, a virginal, martyred Welsh Christian princess who chose to become a nun rather than live in luxury-though one of Saint Winifred's miracles did include returning from the dead.
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Hocus Pocus / int_bb0c0a4d	type	Fiery Redhead
Hocus Pocus / int_bb0c0a4d	comment	Fiery Redhead: Winifred.
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Hocus Pocus / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Hocus Pocus / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: The times within the space of a few minutes when Billy says phrases that involve the word, "Hell!"
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Hocus Pocus / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Hocus Pocus / int_bc74ef27	comment	Thackery Binx was already going to have his life sucked out of him for trying to stop the witches from killing his sister, but he makes the mistake of calling Winifred a hag and is instead damned to a Fate Worse than Death in the form of being trapped in the form of a black cat... for all eternity... living with his failure.
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Hocus Pocus / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
Hocus Pocus / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The film starts with the hanging of the Sanderson sisters in 1693 and then fast forwards to 1993, the time of the setting.
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Hocus Pocus / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Hocus Pocus / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: Both the protagonists and the antagonists fit: For the main trio, Allison's the blonde, Max is the brunet, and Dani's the redhead. Among the three witches, Sarah is blonde, Mary is brunette, and Winnie is a redhead.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c007c53	type	Cool and Unusual Punishment
Hocus Pocus / int_c007c53	comment	Cool and Unusual Punishment: Sarah tortures the two bullies by force-feeding them Halloween candy. (They were already sick from it in the previous scene.)
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Hocus Pocus / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Hocus Pocus / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Max and Allison, concerned that something is very wrong, check on Dani in her bed, only to find Sarah hiding under the sheets. Sarah snaps up to a sitting position. The accompanying Scare Chord is what makes this moment effective.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
Hocus Pocus / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Subverted, albeit toned down for a "kid's movie". Sarah really likes to play with men and "boys" and doesn't care if they are unwilling or underage, and it establishes that she is definitely evil. Case in point, she wants hang Thackeray on a hook and play with him after he calls Winifred a hag and gets incapacitated. It's as creepy as it sounds. Later, she leers at Max and offers to be his "friend". Max doesn't even dignify that with an answer.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Hocus Pocus / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: Enforced by Max when Winnie is holding Dani hostage and threatening her life in exchange for the potion, which she'll use to kill Dani anyway if Max gives it to her. The only way he can think of to save his sister is to Take a Third Option and drink the potion himself, and he then lampshades:
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Hocus Pocus / int_c2c1f8d2	type	Exactly Exty Years Ago
Hocus Pocus / int_c2c1f8d2	comment	Exactly Exty Years Ago: The three witches come back to life exactly 300 years later after their execution. It's by the way at the cost of being historically incorrect: the Salem trials happened in 1692, and by the next year, it been forbidden to accuse someone of witchcraft again in order to avoid the same chaos. The townspeople do have leeway to justify executing the sisters, considering they most likely found Emily Binx's aged dead body in the cottage when they swarmed the place.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Hocus Pocus / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Dani screams this when Max drinks the witch's potion so that the trio will take his life and not hers.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c3a1e89b	type	Cats Are Magic
Hocus Pocus / int_c3a1e89b	comment	Cats Are Magic: Binx, a teenager who was transformed into a black cat by the Sandersons. He has the ability to speak, and he is effectively immortal.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c3b40ab8	type	Evil Redhead
Hocus Pocus / int_c3b40ab8	comment	Evil Redhead: Winifred the witch has red hair. She's also easily the most evil out of the three.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c3bafbce	type	Satan
Hocus Pocus / int_c3bafbce	comment	Satan: He never appears in person, but the Sanderson sisters call him their "master" (when meeting a man in a "devil" Halloween costume and mistaking him for the real thing), and a museum sign claims he gave Winifred her spell book.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Hocus Pocus / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Max and Company lead the witches into an oven at the high school, lock them in and turn it on, essentially burning them to death. They believe they've won and come home with a new cat and the spellbook in tow. Unfortunately, the witches survived and Allison opens the spellbook alerting the witches to where they are.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c3db1619	type	ZigZagged
Hocus Pocus / int_c3db1619	comment	Then it gets Zig-Zagged at the end where Binx after he dies tells Emily's spirit that he took so long to die because he had to wait for a "virgin" to light the candle. The witches wouldn't have come back, but Binx would have stayed in cat form for an eternity.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c54d550d	type	Novelization
Hocus Pocus / int_c54d550d	comment	Novelization: The first half of Hocus Pocus & The All-New Sequel novelized the movie. The first half was rereleased in 2022 under the title "Hocus Pocus: The Illustrated Novelization" with artwork by Gris Grimly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Hocus Pocus / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The mob in the prologue successfully subdued the three witches and strung them up on a gallows. It doesn't look like they suffered any casualties either.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c6fe99cf	type	Creepy Cemetery
Hocus Pocus / int_c6fe99cf	comment	Creepy Cemetery: It relies on elements from the rest of the movie to add the creepiness factor. It's actually a Place of Protection since witches "can't set foot" on hallowed ground.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Hocus Pocus / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: During the "I Put a Spell on You" number, Winnie calls out, "Hello, Salem! My name's Winifred, what's yours?" This is a nod to Mama Rose in Gypsy, who said, "Hello, world, my name is Rose! What's yours?" (which was spoken by Louise earlier) Doubles as an Actor Allusion when Bette Midler played Mama Rose in the TV version on the same year that Hocus Pocus was released. At the beginning of "I Put a Spell on You", Winnie gives out a shout-out to one of Elton John's songs: Also, the "I Put a Spell on You" number is an homage to Screamin' Jay Hawkins, who wrote the song, although the original actually started with "I put a spell on you, 'cause you're mine." Winnie also gives a nod to The Beatles when she shocks Max: Jay and Ice being trapped in cages to fatten them up, as well as being trapped in a kiln, to Hansel and Gretel. A man wearing a TRON costume can be seen at the party Max and Dani's parents are attending. Winnie scares a boy dressed in a Sonic the Hedgehog costume. Max Sarcastically tells a cop to tattoo his virginity status on his head. In the sequel, Allison is now an attorney and then negotiating with "the Man in charge" of Hell while she, Max, and Dani are there, which is likely a nod to The Devil and Daniel Webster.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c82e751f	type	Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Hocus Pocus / int_c82e751f	comment	Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Actually subverted. Allison gets an idea of how to take out the witches, but does not explain it. In the next scene, the heroes successfully pull off the plan, which is to lure the witches into an oven at the high school, and turn it on. The kids think they've won and gone home, but the witches actually survive due to the magic of the black flame candle.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c928d01d	type	Magic Music
Hocus Pocus / int_c928d01d	comment	"I Put a Spell on You" qualifies as both this and Magic Music. Winnie openly gloats over what she's doing to the party-goers, even as she's doing it.
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Hocus Pocus / int_c9d9a85f	type	Hot Witch
Hocus Pocus / int_c9d9a85f	comment	Hot Witch: Sarah is the prettiest witch of the three, and her outfit emphasizes her breasts. She's also hit on by plenty of characters.
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Hocus Pocus / int_cbfd6e47	type	Flying Broomstick
Hocus Pocus / int_cbfd6e47	comment	Flying Broomstick: Played straight and then parodied when their brooms are stolen, forcing Sarah to fly on a mop and Mary on a vacuum cleaner.
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Hocus Pocus / int_cf511248	type	All Part of the Show
Hocus Pocus / int_cf511248	comment	All Part of the Show: What the adult party-goers think of the Sandersons taking over the stage and singing a song to them, to the point they indulge in audience participation and sing too, thus unknowingly enchanting themselves.
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Hocus Pocus / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Hocus Pocus / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Played with. Mary smells a child in the prologue and tells Winnie about it. Winnie scoffs and points to the lured Emily as a child. This causes her to miss Thackery.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d08049db	type	Taken for Granite
Hocus Pocus / int_d08049db	comment	Taken for Granite: Winifred. The result of her standing on the hallowed ground while trying to steal Max's life.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d0b60f23	type	GoshDangItToHeck
Hocus Pocus / int_d0b60f23	comment	Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Mostly averted. Despite being a Disney film, some mild profanities are used. But one exception is when Winnifred shouts, "Cheese and crust!" in place of "Jesus Christ!".
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Hocus Pocus / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Hocus Pocus / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: When Allison accidentally opened an oven she gets the idea of burning the witches.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d1814802	type	Big Red Devil
Hocus Pocus / int_d1814802	comment	Big Red Devil: A man wearing a typical "devil" Halloween costume answers the door for the witches and they mistake him for the real Devil, much to his confusion.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d2a5bed2	type	Redhead in Green
Hocus Pocus / int_d2a5bed2	comment	Redhead In Green: Winifred is the redhead in the trio of sisters and she's color-coded with green.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d2c0e2ed	type	Schmuck Bait
Hocus Pocus / int_d2c0e2ed	comment	Schmuck Bait: The black flame candle that is said to bring back a trio of witches, if lit by a virgin during a full moon on Halloween night. Binx and Dani call Max an "airhead virgin" for falling for this.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Hocus Pocus / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Dani and Binx both call out Max for lighting the candle, though at the end Binx thanks him since defeating the witches a second time allows him to die and move on to the afterlife.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d40e1a9f	type	Break Out the Museum Piece
Hocus Pocus / int_d40e1a9f	comment	Break Out the Museum Piece: Inverted. After their original brooms are stolen, the Sanderson Sisters substitute them with present day appliances: Winifred uses a modern broom, Sarah a mop and Mary a vacuum cleaner.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
Hocus Pocus / int_d45c0b86	comment	Why do the Sanderson Sisters try to be discreet when Max calls them out at the party, only to lap up the spotlight when it's turned right on them, 5 seconds later? Because both are hilarious, that's why.note Also, while they may be trying to avoid attention, once the spotlight is on them, they've already been "caught", so Refuge in Audacity is their best bet to escape at that point.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d53d0080	type	Vampiric Draining
Hocus Pocus / int_d53d0080	comment	Vampiric Draining: The three witches do this to a young girl to maintain their youth.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d72b5003	type	Technicolor Fire
Hocus Pocus / int_d72b5003	comment	Technicolor Fire: The candle that brings the sisters Back from the Dead has a black flame.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d7531233	type	You Need a Breath Mint
Hocus Pocus / int_d7531233	comment	You Need a Breath Mint: When Billy insults Winifred, Max gets a whiff of his breath and almost loses his lunch. It's also relevant to Max's first run-in with Jay and "Ice".
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Hocus Pocus / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Hocus Pocus / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: "Yabbos" to describe what Max loves. According to IMDB, "yabbos" was used in National Lampoon's Animal House for breasts in the phrase "major-league yabbos."
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Hocus Pocus / int_d959f4db	type	Immortality Seeker
Hocus Pocus / int_d959f4db	comment	Immortality Seeker: You might think the Sanderson sisters are Vain Sorceresses but eternal youth is only half of what they want.
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Hocus Pocus / int_d9e48d0	type	Company Cross References
Hocus Pocus / int_d9e48d0	comment	Company Cross References: One of the background trick-or-treaters is dressed as Mrs. Potts and one of the party dancers is dressed as TRON.
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Hocus Pocus / int_daecc607	type	BigSisterBully
Hocus Pocus / int_daecc607	comment	Despite being a Big Sister Bully, Winifred gets a moment of this when she yanks Mary and Sarah after her to avoid the "burning rain of death".
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Hocus Pocus / int_daf4da31	type	Anime Hair
Hocus Pocus / int_daf4da31	comment	Anime Hair: Mary's hair is styled to look like a witch's hat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_db454784	type	Offscreen Inertia
Hocus Pocus / int_db454784	comment	Offscreen Inertia: The last we see of Jay and "Ice", they're still locked in their cages singing a round of "Row Your Boat". Granted, the main trio knew they were there from Dani's earlier rescue, but who knows how long they were left to stew.
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Hocus Pocus / int_dbeee130	type	Pillar of Light
Hocus Pocus / int_dbeee130	comment	Pillar of Light: Allison, Max, and Dani take possession of Winifred's spellbook, and when Max and Allison open it, they unintentionally unleash from it a pillar of light which serves as a beacon for the Sanderson sisters, especially Winifred, who had been desperate to retrieve her book. The witches follow the light and break into the Dennison home to retrieve the book and then kidnap Dani and Binx.
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Hocus Pocus / int_dcd13ea5	type	Always with You
Hocus Pocus / int_dcd13ea5	comment	Always with You: A freed Thackery tells this to Dani just as he and Emily are about to head to Heaven.
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Hocus Pocus / int_dd3d1f69	type	Wicked Witch
Hocus Pocus / int_dd3d1f69	comment	Each of the sisters represent a different aspect of the myth of the witch. Winifred is the typical Wicked Witch crossed with the Vain Sorceress, an ugly, petty and narcissistic witch turning people into animals, owning a grimoire of dark magic, resurrecting the dead and brewing potions to steal children's life force. Sarah is the sex-obsessed Hot Witch with hints of the succubus and siren legends. Mary is more of a Fairy Tale witch, a foolish cannibal cook able to smell children a la Hansel and Gretel, and with a hairdo shaped like a typical witch hat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_df33a778	type	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself
Hocus Pocus / int_df33a778	comment	For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Max wears street clothes when he takes Dani trick-or-treating. His father Dave thinks he's supposed to be a hip-hop deejay, while Dani insists he's a Little Leaguer. The Sanderson sisters are dressed as stereotypical witches because that's what they are. Meaning they're attending Halloween as themselves, but just happen to fit in extremely well.
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Hocus Pocus / int_dfe120e5	type	Functional Magic
Hocus Pocus / int_dfe120e5	comment	Functional Magic
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Hocus Pocus / int_e0140e6c	type	From the Mouths of Babes
Hocus Pocus / int_e0140e6c	comment	From the Mouths of Babes: Dani repeatedly mentioning Max being a virgin. One gets the impression she doesn't really know what it is, just that it's why Max was able to light the candle, so it must apply to him, and the fact that it embarrasses him is just a bonus. She also openly talks about Max's love of Allison's "yabbos". Also, "You sold your soul!" to Winifred.
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Hocus Pocus / int_e0e3a0ba	type	Salem Is Witch Country
Hocus Pocus / int_e0e3a0ba	comment	Salem Is Witch Country: That's where the protagonist witches were from, and reappear to do their evil.
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Hocus Pocus / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: The animal itself is never mentioned, but Mary's appears to be a dog, what with her tendency to bark, her power to smell children, and the way she's always at Winifred's side. Explained in the original script: as it turns out, Mary's father was a bloodhound.
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Hocus Pocus / int_e431c24c	comment	Likewise, a sign that the witches are Not Quite Dead after apparently being burned up in the school kiln is their spell on the adults (and Binx) has not ceased. Sure enough, they step out unharmed.
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Hocus Pocus / int_e888fbd8	comment	No Man Should Have This Power: When Max finds out how dangerous Winifred's book is he is Genre Savvy enough to try to destroy it on the spot. Unfortunately, it's protected by dark magic which makes this impossible.
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Hocus Pocus / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: The Sanderson sisters' Dying Curse prophesies that "a virgin will summon us from under the ground." However, they never said that the virgin had to be female.
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Hocus Pocus / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Happens to Binx in the beginning when he is cursed. It's deconstructed as eventually he gets tired of moping around and starts doing something with his eternal life.
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Hocus Pocus / int_ea7e8d30	comment	Witch Classic: Let's see... three murderous witches who sold their soul to the devil, fly on brooms and live in Salem? Fits pretty well. Each of the sisters represent a different aspect of the myth of the witch. Winifred is the typical Wicked Witch crossed with the Vain Sorceress, an ugly, petty and narcissistic witch turning people into animals, owning a grimoire of dark magic, resurrecting the dead and brewing potions to steal children's life force. Sarah is the sex-obsessed Hot Witch with hints of the succubus and siren legends. Mary is more of a Fairy Tale witch, a foolish cannibal cook able to smell children a la Hansel and Gretel, and with a hairdo shaped like a typical witch hat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_eb0d7317	comment	Men of Sherwood: At the beginning of the film, Mr. Binx, his wife, Thackery's friend Elijah, and a bunch of Living Prop Puritan townsfolk march on the home of three immensely powerful and murderous witches...and capture and execute them without any apparent difficulty.
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Hocus Pocus / int_edeafb2e	comment	Malicious Misnaming: In an early scene, Max introduces himself to the two bullies, Jay and "Ice", and says he's from Los Angeles. They start mockingly calling him "Hollywood" from then on.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f2d8e3c2	comment	Evil Plan: The witches want to be young and beautiful forever, but they need to retrieve their spellbook from three human children and a cat.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f314f8c4	comment	Traveling at the Speed of Plot: Played for Drama in the opening and justified. Thackeray sees Emily running off after Sarah and tells his neighbor Elijah to get help and alert his father to stop the witches. He's barely able to keep up, not helping that he slips in the woods while barefoot. By the time he makes it, Emily's already in the witches' cottage and Thackeray fails to take the trio on alone. The mob comes seconds after the witches murder Emily and transform Binx, armed to the teeth and angry but too late to rescue either child. Justified in that there are no roads or cars in colonial Salem, and it would take longer to reach people in the village. Thackeray had adrenaline on his side and the advantage of being able to follow Sarah.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f360fc33	comment	Dumbass Has a Point: Max tells Binx that it wasn't his fault that Emily died. It really wasn't; no one had arrived in time to save Emily or her brother, and Binx at the time was outnumbered and underequipped. And at the climax, Sarah and Mary try to tell Winnie that they can use what's left of the potion to drink the souls of the children that were lured in by Sarah; then they can go after the main characters. Too bad Winnie is incredibly vindictive and wants to specifically kill Dani for calling her a hag.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f48d0f54	comment	Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Billy, unless you count two-timing on his lover "evil".note Just how he got the name "Billy the Butcher" is left up to the imagination. The whole reason he's assumed to be evil for most of the movie is because his lips are sewn shut and he can't speak; when he finally manages to do so, then he's able to express his true loyalties.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Hocus Pocus / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: "The Master" gives Clark Bar candy bars to the Sanderson sisters. Mary thinks they're chocolate-covered fingers of a man named Clark. Also, while still at "the Master's" house, Mary turns on the TV and sees a commercial for DuPont Stainmaster with a running baby in it, and she gets ecstatic. The camera lingers on Max's Nike trainers. Later in the movie his holdall features a prominent swoosh logo.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f6624c30	comment	Together in Death: Binx's spirit reunited with his sister in the afterlife.He dies on her grave, and then his spirit is reunited with hers right after.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f786350a	comment	Dying Curse: At her hanging, Winifred pronounces that "on All Hallows' Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground" and then all the children will be theirs.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f89bca72	comment	Psychopathic Womanchild: Sarah is so childlike, it's very easy to forget she's homicidal and very dangerous, and her idea of "play" likely involves death and, at one point, possibly torture. Sarah Jessica Parker's delivery makes her lines less creepy, until you think about them. One line sums her up instantly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f8a82c75	comment	I Always Wanted to Say That: When Winifred tells Billy Butcherson to kill Max, he cuts the thread stitching his lips together and tells her off:
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Hocus Pocus / int_f8e010ce	comment	Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Winnie apparently can't understand self-sacrifice, especially for a family member.
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Hocus Pocus / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Max's virginity is referenced oh so often, sometimes as a metaphor for idiot. His eight-year-old sister, Dani, only mentions it three times. It has been theorized that Dani was just getting her big brother's goat without knowing virginity's meaning, but the contexts belie that interpretation. On the other hand, she also twice mocks Max's attraction to Allison (and her "yabbos"). Binx's increasingly affectionate barbs at Max, and hitting him when he does something stupid. Made even funnier when Max and Allison open the book: it was Allison's idea, and while he yells at her, Binx keeps slapping Max in the face.
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Hocus Pocus / int_fd7fd7b7	comment	Too Old to Trick-or-Treat: Max's fear is realized when "half the guys at school" see him with Dani on Halloween night and think he's going trick-or-treating himself. Dani only makes matters worse by explaining his "costume". The wife of "Satan" says this ad verbatim to the Sandersons.
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Hocus Pocus / int_fdf22cfd	comment	Evil Is Hammy: In contrast to everyone else's more subdued performances, the Sanderson sisters and their actresses are certainly enjoying themselvesnote Bette Midler is on record saying that this was one of her favorite roles.
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Hocus Pocus / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: At the beginning of the movie, the two bullies steal Max's sneakers from him; at the climax, when they plead with him to help them after they get locked up by the witches, he refuses, but takes the opportunity to take his sneakers back. In the sequel, the school kiln used to burn the sisters is still broken. When Poppy meets Binx in the sequel, his very first words refer to the Overly-Long Gag of the first one.
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Hocus Pocus / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: Dozens of helpless potential victims are lumbering mindlessly into the Sanderson sisters' clutches, but Winnie insists on going after Dani because the girl called her ugly.
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Hocus Pocus / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: According to Binx, Winifred was so mad with jealousy when she caught Billy "sporting" with Sarah that she poisoned him and sewed his lips shut. However there's no mention of her inflicting any kind of punishment on her sister, presumably because Sarah is too stupid to know any better. She also does apparently care enough about her sisters to share Emily's life force with them instead of just drinking all of it herself.
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Hocus Pocus / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Unlike many of its counterparts, this film accurately portrays Salem authorities executing witches by hanging instead of burning them at the stake.
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Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Spell Book / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Spin-Off Cookbook / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Spit Take / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Spooky Kids Media / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Squee / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Squishy Wizard / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Sugar Causes Hyperactivity / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Supernatural Repellent / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Surrounded by Idiots / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Technicolor Fire / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Teen Hater / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Terrible Trio / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	The Hecate Sisters / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	The Music Meister / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	The Weird Sisters / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	This Is My Boomstick / int_73f86f22
ThoraBirch	seeAlso	Hocus Pocus
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Tome of Eldritch Lore / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Too Old to Trick-or-Treat / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Unexpected Virgin / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Unexpectedly Real Magic / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Unishment / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Urban Fantasy / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Vain Sorceress / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Vampiric Draining / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Viewer Name Confusion / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Vindicated by Cable / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Virgin Power / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Virgin-Shaming / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Virginity Makes You Stupid / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Voodoo Zombie / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Wicked Witch / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Witch Classic / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Witch with a Capital "B" / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Witch Works / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Working Title / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	You Can Talk? / int_73f86f22
Hocus Pocus	hasFeature	You Need a Breath Mint / int_73f86f22

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