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For detailed information about the amounts and types of (a) sex and nudity, (b) violence and gore, (c) profanity, (d) alcohol, drugs, and smoking, and (e) frightening and intense scenes in this movie, consult the IMDb Parents Guide for this movie. The Parents Guide for Hocus Pocus can be found here.
No. Hocus Pocus is based on a script by producer David Kirschner and screenwriters Mick Garris and Neil Cuthbert.
Many viewers say that they hear "Zachary" when referring to Binx's full name. However, the credits say "Thackery", as does closed captioning.
Sean Murray did not do the voice for the Thackery Binx cat. Instead, Jason Marsden actually did the voice for both Thackery Binx in human form and as a cat, as the producers wanted an Old English accent for the character.
Sarah sings: Come little children, I'll take thee away into a land of Enchantment. / Come little children, the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows. / Follow sweet children, I'll show thee the way through all the pain and the Sorrows. / Weep not poor children, for life is this way, murdering beauty and Passions. / Hush now dear children, it must be this way to weary of life and Deceptions. / Rest now my children, for soon we'll away into the calm and the Quiet. / Come little children, I'll take thee away, into a land of Enchantment. / Come little children, the time's come to play here in my garden of Shadows.
Although the story was supposed to be happening in Salem, Massachusetts, not much of the movie was actually filmed there. The opening scenes, when the camera is flying over what is supposed to be 17th century Salem, is the Pioneer Village, a living history museum in Salem's Forest River Park. Exteriors of Alison's house were shot at Ropes Mansion in Salem. Jacob Bailey High School is the old Phillips Elementary School in Salem (which closed a year before filming.) They just put up a new sign for filming. The phone number scene was shot in the Salem Common, a park large across the street from the elementary school in the heart of Salem. Exteriors for Max and Dani's house were shot along a dock on the ocean, at the end of a side street near Forest River Park. Interestingly, the whole right side of the house is literally on the ocean, but it was shot from an angle that makes it look like it's in the middle of town. Most other places, such as the Sanderson Museum, were shot on a studio lot in Los Angeles, California.
Max (Omri Katz) drinks the potion that witch Winnie Sanderson (Bette Midler) intended for Dani (Thora Birch) to drink, so Winnie tries to suck Max's youth instead. Since Winnie is standing on sacred ground, the sun beats her to it and she turns to stone. Her witch sisters, Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Mary (Kathy Najimy) Sanderson, are flung away as the sun rises. Dani mourns Binx (the cat)'s death, but he reappears as the ghost of Thackery Binx (Sean Murray) as a human boy. Thackery joins the ghost of his sister Emily (Jodie Rivera). As the credits appear, Max and Dani's parents come out of the party, and bullies Jay (Tobias Jelinek) and Ice (Larry Bagby) are still in their cages, singing songs to pass the time. The camera pans to the Sandersons's spell book, and its eye opens and looks around.
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