Taglines: It’s just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!
Hocus Pocus movie storyline. In 1693 on October 31st, during the Salem witch trials, Thackery Binx sees his little sister, Emily Binx, spirited away to the cottage of three witches. There, the Sanderson sisters, Winifred, Sarah and Mary, cast a spell on Emily to absorb her youth and regain their own, killing her in the process.
Binx confronts the witches who transform him into an immortal black cat to live with his guilt at not saving Emily. The townsfolk, led by Binx’s father, capture and hang the witches, but Winifred’s spellbook casts a curse that will resurrect the witches during a full moon on All Hallows Eve when any virgin lights the Black Flame Candle. Binx guards the cottage to ensure no one summons the witches.
300 years later on October 31st, 1993, Max Dennison moves from Los Angeles to Salem with his family, including his sister Dani. While exploring the town, he and Dani meet Allison, whose family owns the Sanderson cottage as a museum. Max suggests that they go there and impress Allison, but promised Dani to go trick-or-treating.
Investigating inside the cottage, Max lights the Black Flame Candle and inadvertently resurrects the witches, who plot to continue their plan to suck out the souls of all of Salem’s children, beginning with Dani. The children escape, while Max steals Winifred’s spell book on advice from Binx. The witches pursue them to a cemetery, where Winifred raises her unfaithful lover Billy Butcherson as a zombie to chase them on foot.
Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American Halloween fantasy-comedy horror film directed by Kenny Ortega, starring Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker; written by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris, and based on a story by Garris and David Kirschner. It follows the villainous trio of witches, who are inadvertently resurrected by a male teenager as a virgin in Salem, Massachusetts.
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Directed by: Kenny Ortega
Starring: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz, Thora Birch, Vinessa Shaw, Amanda Shepherd, Larry Bagby, Stephanie Faracy, Charles Rocket
Screenplay by: Neil Cuthbert, Mick Garris
Production Design by: William Sandell
Cinematography by: Hiro Narita
Film Editing by: Peter E. Berger
Costume Design by: Mary E. Vogt
Set Decoration by: Rosemary Brandenburg
Art Direction by: Nancy Patton
Music by: John Debney
MPAA Rating: PG for some scary sequences, and for language.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures
Release Date: July 16, 1993
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