Exclusive: Hocus Pocus: A Retrospective

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 10 years ago

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

HOCUS POCUS was never one of those movies for me growing up, so I didn’t realize it had such a fervent following until many years later. Some folks my age (undisclosed) talk about it with a nostalgic fondness usually reserved for bona fide classics like GREMLINS or POLTERGEIST. I’ll level with you, I haven’t seen a single scene from it in at least 15 years – probably more – so either I’ll have to take their word for it or revisit it soon.

One such fan of the film is our own Killer Guide to Horror guru Nick Young, who has created a retrospective video for the 1993 film. This catches us up pretty well on the bonkers story of the Sanderson sisters, their talking cat and the cursed town they torment. Actually, when you see it laid out this way, you recognize HOCUS POCUS has some pretty dark, weird shit in it!

Happy Halloween, kids!

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Eric Walkuski

Film Critic

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Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

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