Hocus Pocus Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
9 of the most interesting Hocus Pocus easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Hocus Pocus movie message.
A curious youngster moves to Salem, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches that were executed in the 17th century.
Genre
Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Director
Kenny Ortega
Stars
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Omri Katz
IMDB score
6.9
Hocus Pocus Movie Trivia
The fountain in the background of one of the scenes is the same fountain from the Friends opener.
Hocus Pocus movie hidden details
Kathy Najimy (Mary Sanderson) is continually talking about being able to smell children throughout the movie. Towards the end of Halloween night she gets caught smelling Ice's shoes and says, "Sorry, wrong child." Ice stole Max's shoes at the beginning of the movie.
Max can be seen doodling a Grateful Dead logo along with a rainbow and a marijuana leaf. Happy Halloween!
Binx the cat dies by hitting his sister, Emily's, grave after attacking one of the witches.
Mary (the witch with the ability to track people by smell), attempts to find Max but is led to Jay because of the scent on his shoes. Jay actually stole the shoes he was wearing from Max earlier in the movie.
Dani eats a chocolate pop that looks like Winifred Sanderson
Thackery Binx could not speak when he is turned into a cat until the Black Flame Candle is lit.
While the Sanderson Sisters are in the house of "the Devil," their broomsticks are stolen by trick-or-treaters dressed as the Sanderson Sisters.
the spirit of Halloween: in Hocus Pocus (1993), the fountain the kids dance in front after they burn the witches is the same fountain from the opening of Friends.