I put a spell on you! For movie night #17 (Oh yes, I know I am severely behind schedule...) I watched Hocus Pocus while on a field trip. This is one of those movies that I just have to see every year. Between Bette Midler belting out the best version of "I put a Spell on you" to ever be recorded (though sadly never released as a single or on a soundtrack) to Kathy Najimy flying around town on a vacuum cleaner to Sarah Jessica Parker jumping up and down giggling "amok, amok, amok, amok" Hocus Pocus is just plain fun! The three actresses play the Sanderson sisters, a trio of witches who suck the lives from children to maintain a youthful appearance - think of a rather morbid fountain of youth. Sarah lures the children into the woods with a siren song, Mary gathers the ingredients for the potion and Winnie... er... um... reads the ingredients out of her beloved book. Well, Winnie is the leader so why should she have to do any work? After killing his sister, the witches face off against a boy named Thackery Binx who is cursed to live forever as a cat - forget about nine lives, this feline boy gets infinity - shortly before they are gathered by the townspeople and hanged. At the hanging, however Winnie cackles out a spell that promises to bring them back should a virgin ever light the black flame candle. Enter Max, the skeptic, played by the adorable Omri Katz. Believing the legends to be "Hocus Pocus" he lights the candle and summons the witches and chaos ensues. The sisters have one night to suck the lives from all the children or forever be ashes to ashes and dust to dust. The movie didn't do well when it first hit theaters, but it's become a cult classic since being released on DVD. Odds are you know someone who loves this movie... or that person is you! I definitely can't make it through October without hearing Better Midler singing the show-stopping musical number midway through the film.
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