Hocus Pocus
More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat…
- Director: Kenny Ortega
- Genre:Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror
- Runtime:92 minutes
Cast
Brad Pitt : Detective David Mills
Morgan Freeman : Detective Lt. William Somerset
Gwyneth Paltrow : Tracy Mills
R. Lee Ermey : Police Captain
Andrew Kevin Walker : Dead Man (as Andy Walker)
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The movie opens in 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts where three witch sisters — Winifred (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary Sanderson (Kathy Najimy) — lure a young girl named Emily Binx (Jodie Rivera) to their house in the woods, where they prepare to drain the girl’s lifeforce to regain their youth. Her brother Thackery Binx (Sean Murray) sees her heading out and tells his friend Elijah (Steve Voboril) to wake his father and summon the town elders. He attempts to rescue her, but he is caught by the witches and forced to watch as they drain Emily’s lifeforce, killing her in the process. As the witches are about to do the same to Binx, he angrily calls Winifred a hag declaring that there are not enough children in the world to make her beautiful. This prompts a livid Winifred and her sisters to instead turn him into an immortal black cat capable of speech, punishing him for the insult by forcing him “not to die, but to live forever with his guilt”. Not long after this occurs, the witches are caught by the town elders including Binx’s grieving father (Norbert Weisser). With the Sanderson Sisters prisoners in the town square, Thackery’s father demands to know what they did to his son. Winifred denies all knowledge of him. Before the Sanderson sisters are hanged by the Salem townsfolk, they use the confiscated spellbook to cast a curse which would raise the three of them from the dead if and when a virgin lights the Black-Flamed Candle in the witches’ home. Unable to return to his family, Binx dedicated his immortal life to guarding the Sanderson home so this curse could not come to light.
Three hundred years later, in 1993, a teenage boy from Los Angeles named Max (Omri Katz) moves to Salem with his parents (Stephanie Faracy and Charles Rocket) and younger sister Dani (Thora Birch). Max falls for a girl named Allison (Vinessa Shaw) who has good knowledge of the history of the Sanderson sisters as her mother owned the museum erected upon the site where their house used to stand. When going home through the cemetery, he runs into some tough kids named Jay (Tobias Jelinek) and Ernie “Ice” (Larry Bagby) who end up stealing his shoes.
On Halloween, Max, Dani and Allison visit the old house of the witches which has since become a museum where Thackary Binx’s cat form still lurks. Max lights the Black-Flamed Candle which summons powerful magic to raise the three witches from the dead. The three witches attempt to absorb Dani’s lifeforce. Max fools them into taking cover from the “burning rain of death” by turning on the house’s sprinkler system with a cigarette lighter and then steals Winifred’s spellbook per advice from Thackary Binx (voiced by Jason Marsden). Read more
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