Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, Omri Katz, Charles Rocket, Stephanie Faracy
The Sanderson sisters Winifred (Midler), Mary (Najimy), and Sarah (Parker) are 1693 Salem witches hung by locals and then awakened 300 years later on Halloween night by kids new to the town. The witches are bent on drinking the blood of a child so they could live forever with youngsters Max (Katz), Allison (Shaw), and Max's sister Dani (Birch) trying to stop the witches. If the sisters do not succeed before sunrise, then they disappear forever...again or until a sequel.
Hocus Pocus is a cute, inoffensive Halloween movie which has gained enough of a following in ensuing years to warrant a 2022 sequel. Like a Peanuts comic strip, the parents are mostly off screen, (in this case, every adult is at an all-night Halloween party), so the kids are forced to deal with the danger on their own. The sisters appear at the party long enough for Bette Midler to belt out a tune with an orchestra coincidentally on hand. I have yet to see the sequel, but the events of this film has at least piqued my curiosity enough to take a look soon enough.
The witches in Hocus Pocus don't seem fazed that they were once dead and have been resurrected 300 years later. They haven't missed a beat and have little, if any, culture shock. Hocus Pocus isn't built to be a movie that would have such reservations and I'd be a Grinch to keep pointing those out. Oops, wrong holiday.
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