Spoiler alert.....

The witches die......

I love Fall, even though we are still sweating because it is 90 degrees every day.  I also love Halloween probably more than any other holiday.  Along with my favorite holiday comes my favorite holiday which, of course, is Hocus Pocus.  I have probably seen Hocus Pocus a thousand times and never get sick of it.  Literally have it on in the background as I type this out and can literally quote word-for-word in the process.

Random BTS.

I did a little research on the movie and found out a few interesting things so just thought I would share.

Can you even believe this movie came out 26 years ago, what?

The movie was directed by Kenny Ortega who also was the director of Michael Jackson's, This Is It.

Bette and Kenny.

~A funny thing to note is what we call Hocus Pocus, in other countries it is called Abracadabra.

~The movie was almost called Halloween House.

~Hocus Pocus was not released around Halloween.

~Binx the cat was actually played by 9 different cats, 9 lives x 9 cats.  Apparently, each cat had a different skill set.

~When Billy Butcherson was awakened from the dead, and his mouth stitches were cut, real moths flew out of his mouth.  A device was created for the moths to sit in his mouth but not swallow them. Kinda cool, kinda gross!

~A small town in Ohio, Middletown, host a Hocus Pocus festival every October.

~The three little girls who discovered the witch brooms outside of a house while trick or treating were actually younger versions of the old Sanderson Sisters.

~David Kirschner created the story as a bedtime story for his children, and it spiraled into the movie we now have from there.

~Bette Midler says Hocus Pocus is her favorite film.

~Bette also apparently had two helpers following her around with dictionaries of old curse words, sounds like something she would do.

~The book for Hocus Pocus has a sequel 

which came out in 2017.



~Did you know the part of Max was originally offered to Leonardo DiCarprio?? Yeah, but apparently he was filming What's Eating Gilbert Grape (never seen that before) and had to turn it down.

~For me, one of the more interesting discoveries is that of a Gloucester witch by the name of Esther Elwell is the 10 time great-grandmother of Sarah Jessica Parker who plays Sarah in the movie.  She was not killed during the witch trials because she escaped and then the witch trials ended, lucky her.


I accidentally discovered a short deleted scenes video on YouTube, click here to watch that.

The quotes in this movie are also some of the best quotes ever!!

If you have not seen this Halloween movie, you must!  Age does not matter to this timeless classic.  I have heard Disney is planning on a reboot like many other classics have done but I wish they would not even bother because there will never be another Hocus Pocus, and I will definitely not be watching because it will probably be "a bunch of Hocus Pocus."