DISNEY TRIED TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM THIS ONE FOR YEARS...THEN THEY REALIZED HOW MUCH OF A FANBASE IT HAD WITH THE KIDS WHO GREW UP WITH IT.
shareYes I've noticed the attention in recent years. I didn't use to see so much merch at Halloween. But then why doesn't Disney make some edgier content if they acknowledge this now?
shareI always thought it was odd they showed Emily actually being murdered by the witches. Even now I hate watching that part and I usually skip forward. They get it back at the end when Emily meets Thackary at the cemetary gates but its still disturbing. As far as the viriginity talk I dont think its an issue.
shareI expected a different and better movie both from its being Disney and its being so popular. I didn't expect what was described as a harmless fun movie (compared to horror) to still be so dark.
sharePretty soon movies like "Homeward Bound" will be considered highly violent and such. Bunch of weenies..
shareThe problem is Disney not making movies like this anymore.
shareI'm starting to wonder if Hocus Pocus would be rated PG-13 if it came out a few years later. It as it is, really seems to push the limit of what the PG rating was or is:
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This one’s a little tricky. I saw this in my late twenties in the theater. It was a little confusing to understand the angle of the movie: it billed itself as a Disney movie marketed to kids and teens, but had some sex jokes and situations that—at least, up until that point in Disney’s history—weren’t very on-brand…usually those were saved for Disney’s Touchstone-division offerings. It seemed a little too ghoulish for young kids, too. It has a song, but wasn’t a musical, per se. It kind of felt like the movie didn’t know what it wanted to be. Clearly, it found its audience along the way, but I’m sure it’s just one of those films you grow up alongside and find charming for nostalgic as well as cinematic value.
Roger Elbert gave the film one star and wrote “It's one of those projects where you imagine everyone laughing and applauding each other after every scene, because they're so convinced they're wild and crazy guys. But watching the movie is like attending a party you weren't invited to, and where you don't know anybody, and they're all in on a joke but won't explain it to you.”
The Sanderson sisters are almost to me, like the female versions of The Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. There are parts about it that I find genuinely creepy, like when Mary and Sarah are first looking for Dani and Sarah starts singing her "Come Little Children" song. I think a lot of what made it work is that the actresses (especially Sarah Jessica Parker) completely embody the characters that they're playing. Like, I genuinely believe that Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Sanderson, is this ditzy, batshit insane, child hating, centuries old witch.
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