Parents Guide for
Hocus Pocus (1993) More at IMDbPro »

Mild sexual innuendo is heard and cleavage is seen, including the mother's madonna pointy boob costume, which she adjusts quite visually during a halloween concert.

Two teenagers kiss innocently and fall asleep in each other's arms, covered by a blanket, but fully clothed underneath.

One of the witches, Sarah (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) is written as the lusty one in the group. She shows ample cleavage throughout the movie and makes several comments related to boys and kissing. She is clearly attracted to the characters Thackery and Max, both of whom are teenage boys, and more than once, she suggests hanging them on a hook and "playing with them".

There is talk of the main character's virginity, as it is a requirement to bring the witches back to life.

For Halloween, a man is dressed as a motorcycle cop, and his date is dressed presumably as a hooker, though nothing is viewable and she is completely covered.

A few references to women's breasts. A comment is made by an 8-year-old girl while she is talking to the teenage girl her older brother Max likes. The little girl says she could never wear a costume like the teenage girl's because she doesn't have any "yabos". Then the child says "Max likes your yabos. In fact, he loves them!"

While two teenage boys are talking, one of them suggests looking in windows and "watching babes undress". They don't actually end up doing it, though.

Some very mild zombie gore. His fingers are severed quite comically and in a separate scene his head is knocked off.

The witches kill children by sucking their souls out of them. We see them succeed in doing so once, early in the film.

The witches are hanged at the beginning of the film during the Salem Witch Trials. You can see their feet suspended in the air, but nothing is shown beyond that - no blood or gore.

A teenage boy lights a candle, resulting in some explosions and the appearance of three witches.

One act of violence involves the witches pushed into a pottery kiln, locked in, and presumably burned to death. (You see the flames consuming them, but it is not very graphic.) Three kids are seen celebrating this in the next scene. The witches ultimately escape. They kick the door down and emerge from the room, coughing and gasping for breath. There is smoke all around them, but they are not physically hurt.

Bullies repeatedly intimidate the main teenage character with threats of physical violence.

A cat is run over by a bus. However, it re-inflates and comes back to life.

Several punctuated uses of the word "Damn", "Hell", "Virgin", "sucked" and "Yabos" during a discussion of a teen girl's breasts.

A Halloween party for adults is shown. Many of the characters are drunk. They are seen literally stumbling out of the place at dawn, giggling and slurring their words.

A teenage boy asks another teenage boy, Max, for a "butt", obviously referring to cigarettes. Max says he doesn't smoke and gets made fun of for it.

Some intense scenes involving witch craft, execution, fires, child abduction, the afterlife, and a scene where the cat is killed (but comes back to life).

The witches' spell book literally has an eye in front of it that opens and closes and responds to voices. This can be scary for younger kids.

The witches kill a child by sucking her soul out of her, so they can be younger. The little girl is sitting in a chair with her head hanging down, obviously dead.

The three witches are presumably hanged at the beginning of the movie, during the Salem Witch Trial period. We see their feet come up from the ground as they are hanged, but that's the most that is shown on camera.

A witch jumps out from underneath the covers of a bed in a 'jump scene'.

Two teenage boys are put in cages that are hung in the air by the three witches. We never see them released from the cages. At the end of the movie, they are seen just sitting there alone, singing random tunes to themselves. It's more comical than anything else, though.

The three witches officially die at the end of the movie. The lead witch, Winnie, turns into stone and explodes. The other two just explode in the air. There is some comic relief when the third witch goes "Uh-oh, bye-bye" right before she explodes.

Billy's character has a grotesque physical appearance that may be unsettling for young children.

Two deceased characters are seen walking together toward some kind of afterlife at the end of the movie. It isn't necessarily scary, but it may require some explaining for younger viewers.