
All Witches Have Cats: Inverted in Hocus Pocus.May well count as a Moment of Awesome, particularly for Winifred figuring out that the witches could do this. All Part of the Show: What the adult partygoers think of the Sandersons taking over the stage and singing a song to them, to the point they actually indulge in audience participation and sing too, thus unknowingly enchanting themselves.
And at the party, when Billy (the zombie) pushes between the parents and chases the children:. When Max comes home in his stocking feet after his shoes are stolen by bullies, they assume it's somehow a form of protest against them.
Max and Dani's parents are useless long before anything supernatural happens. To be fair to the adults, all the kids did say was "I accidentally woke up the Sanderson witches" on Halloween in a town where the Sanderson witches "coming back to life" is probably the most common prank every single Halloween. They also tried for help from the man they thought was a police officer. Adults Are Useless: The children tried to get help from their parents and the rest of the partygoers at the party. Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Max, Dani and Allison have to flee the witches and zombie Billy Butcherson by following Thackery into the sewers, which are filled with spiders and rats, which is what Thackery eats as a cat! Very squicky to the trio. Tropes used in Hocus Pocus (film) include: Also unrelated is Kurt Vonnegut's 1991 novel of the same name. While a 1994 side-scrolling platformer by the same name also exists, they don't have any connection to each other. Now the three kids and the immortal cat Binx have to face the witches throughout the night, with the lives of every kid in Salem at risk. Allison tells him of the legend of the Sanderson sisters and of a supposed way to revive them Max laughs and tries it out, bringing the Sandersons back to life. Halloween night, Max takes his sister trick-or-treating and gets to hang with new Love Interest Allison (Vinessa Shaw). The Dennisons are a California family who has just moved to Salem, bringing along teenaged son Max (Omri Katz) and 8-year-old daughter Dani ( Thora Birch). The sisters are soon after captured by the townspeople and hanged before her death, Winnie pronounces her death-curse, that "on All Hallow's Eve, when the moon is round, a virgin will summon us from under the ground." Thackery attempts to save her, but the sisters transform him into an immortal black cat. Emily has been lured away to the farm of the Sanderson sisters, a trio of witches-consisting of older sister/leader Winifred "Winnie" (Bette Midler), middle child/tracker Mary (Kathy Najimy) and little sister/siren-like predator Sarah ( Sarah Jessica Parker)-who suck the life-forces of little children to prolong their lives such is the fate suffered by Emily. Thackery Binx (role shared by Sean Murray and Jason Marsden), a teenager living in Salem, Massachusetts, discovers his little sister Emily (Amanda Shepherd) has gone missing. The song "Come Little Children" from this film went on to become a Halloween classic. It does, after all, contain a memorable rendition of "I Put A Spell On You" by Bette Midler. Now considered a cult favorite, the film's rather campy, but pretty entertaining. This was the second film directed by Kenny Ortega, previously known for Newsies (1993).
A 1993 Halloween-themed Disney film for "kids".