Yet the years have been kind to “Hocus Pocus.”
Keep reading to find out the untold truth of “Hocus Pocus.”
“My daughter was spellbound,” Kirschner revealed.
The bedtime story that resulted, he added, “terrified and delighted her.”
“What I had written originally was about 12-year-olds,” Garris told Entertainment Weekly.
“The kids being younger and in more jeopardy was certainly something more explicitly frightening.”
This, he explained, reduced the scariness.
“Basically, they had gone back to the script that I had done,” he recalled.
“They had made some changes it was much more broadly comedic.”
He added that while his script was darker, other writers' commercial instincts were superior to his.
“I don’t know where the hell I got the nerve,” DiCaprio said.
Midler’s character, Winnifred, “is in charge and much more aggressive than the other two.
She’s always leading the way and looking for children.”
Najimy’s character, Mary, on the other hand, “is more cautious.
Like a good driver, she signals with her hand.
Mary is the safe and steady flier.”
That’s just one of thethings about “Hocus Pocus” you only notice as an adult.
When asked if she was “fine up there,” Parker replied, “I was happy.
I was better than fine.”
That’s something he’s like to do himself.
Why so many cats to portray just one?
As Murray explained toPeople, “What I discovered was that cats are impossible to train … Thora Birch who played Max’s little sister, Dani concurred.
“I had an issue whenever the cat came up,” she toldABC News.
“There were a number of live cats, animatronic cats the thing with the cat was a toss-up.
You never knew what would happen.”
Billy, played byDoug Jones, takes a knife and slices the stitches sewing his lips together.
Unlike Binx, no CGI was involved in this scene.
“Aren’t you broads a little bit old to be trick-or-treating?”
his wife asks while puffing on a cigarette.
“That’s it!
Get out of my house!”
she bellows, telling her spouse, “Shove it, Satan!”
Addressing Sarah, she adds, “Tart-face, take your Clark Bars and get outta my house!”
The book’s synopsis also promises that the novel will reveal the origins of “resting witch face.”
The new version would feature neither the original cast nor directorKenny Ortega.
AsPeoplesubsequently reported, reaction on social media was scathing.
In addition to fans, Bette Midler herself chimed in to express her displeasure.
“It’s going to be cheap!”
In addition, Midler couldn’t think of anyone who’d be able to top her performance.
“I’m not sure what they’re going to do with my character,” she added.
“I watched it again for the first time … “I had forgotten how good it was and how good everybody was.”
Rather than take offense at what could be perceived as a diss, Parker preferred to laugh it off.
“I was proud to be in her down wind,” she quipped.
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Discovering her ancestor had been charged with witchcraft proved to be a game-changing revelation for Parker.
“It’s changed everything about who I thought I was,” she admitted.
“I really did eat the spider,” she confessed, viaCollider.
“I don’t have a lot of memories.
I remember the filming of it.
““Three witches, I’ve been told that, and apparently my character’s not very bright.
But I fly and sing and I think I like to suck the life …
I think I like to kill children?
I don’t know.”
Speaking with theDaily Beastin 2017, Marsden explained why he wound up voicing Binx instead of Murray.
According to Marsden, Murray had originally done all the cat voiceovers for Binx.
“It’s one of those things that happen in movies all the time.
“Sean has a very contemporary sound.
Meanwhile,USA Today’s review was downright dismissive.
“Skip it.”
Empire’sreview was likewise negative.
