Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, with Omri Katz, Thora Birch, and Vinessa Shaw in supporting roles. It follows a villainous trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night. A sequel, directed by Adam Shankman, is in development as a Disney+ original film.
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Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Kenny Ortega and written by Neil Cuthbert and Mick Garris. The film stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, with Omri Katz, Thora Birch, and Vinessa Shaw in supporting roles. It follows a villainous trio of witches who are inadvertently resurrected by a teenage boy in Salem, Massachusetts, on Halloween night. A sequel, directed by Adam Shankman, is in development as a Disney+ original film, with a screenplay written by Jen D’Angelo. It was released in the United States on July 16, 1993, by Walt Disney Pictures. It received mixed reviews from film critics at the time of its release. It has since been rediscovered by audiences, resulting in a yearly spike in home video sales of the film every Halloween season that has helped make it a cult classic. It was not a critical or commercial success upon its release, possibly losing Disney around USD 16. 5 million during its theatrical run. The movie is now considered one of the most popular horror films of all time, along with The Exorcist and The Haunting of Edith Piaf. It is also considered a classic horror film by many film critics, including Tom Charity, who called it the “greatest horror film of all-time” and called it “the greatest Halloween movie ever made” The film was released on October 31, 1992, in the U.S., and on October 30, 1993 in the UK, and on November 1, 1993 elsewhere in the world.
The U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa have also released the film, as well as the UK version of the movie in Australia and New Zealand. The UK version has been released on November 2, 2013, and the US version on November 3, 2013. The US version has also been released in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Italy. The British version is called “Hocus-Pocus”, while the UK one has been called “Witches of Salem” and has been subtitled “Witch-of-Salem” by some critics as “The Wiccans of Salem”. The film is set in Salem in 1693, when the Sanderson sisters, three witches named Winifred, Sarah, and Mary, killed Thackery Binx and his little sister Emily. Three centuries later, Max Dennison is feeling unsettled from his family’s sudden move from Los Angeles, California, to Salem. He takes his younger sister Dani out trick-or-treating, where they meet Max’s new crush Allison. Max lights the Black Flame Candle and inadvertently resurrects the witches due to his virginity. Not realizing the witches have survived, Max and Allison open the spellbook intending to reverse the spell on Binx. The witches track them down, kidnap Dani and Binx, and recover the grimoire. The group is ambushed by Billy who takes Max’s stitched up mouth, and insults Winif red, therefore joining the witches.
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