HOCUS POCUS (1993) MOVIE REACTION! FIRST TIME WATCHING?!

[@roguechevelle]

So I'm back here a year later rewatching this reaction to put me in a better mood. I unfortunately clicked on another reactor's reaction to this and didn't get long into it because they were laughing, pointing at & mocking everything in the first 10 mins I watched. I can understand it not being for everyone but that type of reaction is disrespectful and not entertaining in the slightest. This put me in better spirits.

[@dreadpiratexx]

I was a tour guide in Salem for 15 years. There is a lot of cheesy witchy stuff there. It is a very fun city. Just not in October, it is crazy busy and you really don't get to see much. May and September are the best times. Salem has come 180* since 1692. It is a very open and friendly city to all types. I am also the "child" in the pumpkin mask during Sarah's song. I was actually 17 at the time. Keep up the great work

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

Doug Jones, who played Billy, is an AMAZING special effects actor. He's played far too many great characters to name them all, but one of my favorites, aside from Billy, is The Faun and The Pale Man in Pan's Labrinth. There's a great short doc about his career here on KZbin called Doug Jones I The Man Behind the Masks by Eric Thigpen. I highly recommend it.

[@adorkability]

He was also one of the Gentlemen in the famous Buffy episode "Hush", as was well as Abe Sapien in the "Hellboy" movies.

[@JustCallMeMeghan]

@@adorkability I haven't watched the Buffy show, but I thought he was great as Abe Sapien!

[@belgarath1482]

And now Saru on Star Trek Discovery

[@dreadpiratexx]

His best role has to be Abe Sapien in the Hellboy movies. So much fun.

[@bryancash9051]

@@belgarath1482 I love him on discovery. And you really get to see his talent at work when he is turned human during and episode and he still walks like Sauru even with out the shoes that change his physicality

[@thomasbaker2067]

Hocus Pocus is such a good cult classic movie.

[@joeldean2706]

Watch it every halloween as a kid and still do.

[@MaxSFA]

@@joeldean2706 glad im not the only one.

[@dogggeee3021]

@Joel Dean Sammeeee

[@IceMetalPunk]

It's a bit sad to me what happened to Dani's actress, Thora Birch. She was more than willing to reprise her role as an adult Dani in the sequel, but her schedule didn't work out because she was busy filming the new Wednesday (Addams) show in Europe at the same time the sequel was filming. And then she couldn't even finish filming *that* because she had an emergency in her family (I think maybe a death?) and had to rush back to the States anyway.

[@angelaroberts3563]

Should’ve waited for her

[@hippie2348]

Maybe she will be in the 3rd.....

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

I love that when the witches came back from the kiln, Winnifred had time to learn some French from the tape the kids left playing in there. "Hello. I want my book...Bonjour, veux mon livre."

[@Angelicwings1]

“Together we’re… Journey” That actually was brilliant my dude

[@lightdarksoul2097]

With the return of Hocus Pocus I kind of wanna see Halloweentown return also that series was so campy but fun!

[@crystalrose_pa]

Fun fact: Thora Birch, the actress that plays Dani, also played the Whisperer, Gamma, in The Walking Dead. She's also gonna be in that Wednesday Addams show you mentioned at the beginning. Yeah Salem is very much centered around the Witch trials history and tourism but it's really beautiful and while there's a lot of touristy stuff to do, it somehow doesn't manage to FEEL touristy if that makes sense? Like it's not intrusive. You have to seek the touristy stuff out like the tours and museum and stuff. You could easily have just a nice time walking around Salem looking at all the cool shops and stuff without any of the historical elements. The tours are pretty varied too like there's the more historical ones, then there's ghost tours at night, and there's even one that takes you on a tour of the filming locations from this movie.

[@rainbowpegacornstudios]

This movie is the legit reason why I love Bette Midler so much. Also, I love Doug Jones as Billy Butcherson. He also played Abe Sapien in Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army.

[@hellojilly]

This movie came out 3 years before I was born! I named my cat after the black cat in this film. A classic, excited to see you make fun of it 😂😁

[@joeysmith5715]

Salem definitely has Roswell vibes, its so beautiful up there too. There's the campy aspect to it, but they also understand the historical importance of what went on there. SISTASSSS

[@brittonsfireprevention3523]

A part that always make me laugh is when she said “what a beautiful morning.. makes me sick” or something along those lines haha

[@Phoenix_DarkMoon]

Spirit of Halloween is selling a mug with that line on it this year. I have it because it is a mood all its own.

[@codyt821]

The effects are not touched up at all, still have my vhs copy I watch every year (for the nostalgia) and it’s the exact same effects. They just did a really good job with it back in the day. Thackerys cat effects still blow me away

[@brettallen2182]

We owned the original VHS tape from the 90s and I think the effects are just that good. The flying sequences are insane!

[@rgalvshpbks]

just came across your reaction and you're the first reactor (I've watched) to understand that Emily dies in the beginning, that max tricks the witches into thinking the water is "the burning rain of death," that the parents were put into a spell to dance till they die, and that Max tricks them again with the daylight savings thing (before they show the car) so I just wanted to say thank you for paying attention.

[@angelaroberts3563]

I don’t think what Thackery said at the end was a roast on max, but On it being so hard to find virgins to light the candle lol

[@johnmoreland6089]

The effects have not been cleaned up. This is exactly what I saw in the theater in 1993, and what I’ve owned on vhs, dvd and blu-ray over the years. And it was always widescreen, 1:85, since it was a theatrical release.

[@Zophiela]

I love visiting Massachusetts and have been to Salem twice. Once in April and once in October. It was low key and more historical in April but in October that town transformed and was VERY much like Roswell. The town opens up to the tourists and holds special events and tours all month leading up to Halloween.

[@roguechevelle]

This movie and ParaNorman are my fav feel good Halloween movies I like to watch every season. I grew up on this movie so it has that nostalgia for me.

[@k1988smith]

ParaNorman should have won all the awards!!!

[@meldeleon236]

“Bless you 😇” Sarah: AHHHHHHHHH When I saw that scene the first time I had to pause 😂🤣🤣 that was so funny

[@InkyPetrel]

"Together we're... Journey" I made a very undignified snorting noise laughing at this, well done.

[@adorkability]

The effects have always looked good. I haven't noticed any real differences.

[@tophergore]

I agree. I do not think any special effects have been updated.

[@jennrose92]

Great reaction! This has been one of my favorite movies since I was a kid. It has become a tradition to watch it multiple times every Halloween season, I've seen it so many times I can pretty much recite the entire movie by heart lol. I miss the vibes of 90s movies and shows like this, you just don't get this anymore! I'm really excited for the sequel, hopefully it holds up to this movie though this will always be a nostalgic classic!

[@codyt821]

The party at Sarah’s house wasn’t weird, it was clearly a very historic house in town, and they were just having a historic themed halloween party. Pretty standard stuff

[@sillylilkoala]

My high school had a kiln, but definitely not a walk-in kiln. It was slightly bigger than an oil barrel, and the pottery went in through the top where there was a lid.

[@jessicajones657]

I think the effects were not touched up. It was just great for the time. Some of the funnier moments, such as the fireball coming out of the book or deciding to just explode the sisters in the sky are clearly decisions because of the limitations of the era. I really appreciated as a grown up that this is still very likable - but now I relate to Winny more lol.

[@DoctorSciencetime]

An interesting thing about Binx: the actor you see was dubbed over by another actor. So, like, "we want this character not to sound like X or look like Y"

[@_mermaidguts]

Well, here's the thing. I live a half hour outside Salem. I love it there, the atmosphere, the history, it's my go to city for tattoos but it is absolutely awful around Halloween. There are WAY too many people. Parking sucks. I went last year and you waste most of your day in LINES. Like a busy theme park. Such long lines for restaurants, stores, museums. My friends and I had a to-do list and most of it wasn't accomplished with all the waiting around. Scarse bathrooms (mostly portable toilets), too. Never doing that again.

[@Omn1Media]

That makes sense! It's not like a year round Witchfest though then?

[@_mermaidguts]

@@Omn1Media Depends what you mean by witchfest. You can still go on historical witch tours, visit the museums, shop at stores (a lot of crystals, insence, candles, spellbooks, etc). There's a tarot reader every ten feet while walking around. So it's still fun.

[@Omn1Media]

@@_mermaidguts More like how I referred to Roswell. Like every building has like Aliens or UFOs and some kind of Alien theme to damn near everything haha

[@_mermaidguts]

@@Omn1Media A lot of it is like that yes, for the tourists. But then there's also the genuine stores for Wiccans, Pagans and Satanists (like myself) to buy their supplies from. So it depends where and when you go. It's more toned down the rest of the year, you could say.

[@Omn1Media]

​@@_mermaidguts Thank you for clearing up that for me! :D I was genuinely curious

[@DAMIENDMILLS]

You made 2 Power Ranger references in one video. That earned you a like and sub.

[@fernandajulietaarevalo4098]

Winifred (Bette midler)Is just...I love her.Greate ACTRESS

[@ztwatt3]

I just realized, what happened to the three girls who took the real witches brooms by accident? No one saw them flying? How did they even know how to fly those things 😂😅

[@k1988smith]

The visuals were always that good! I love this movie so much!!

[@SweetSlytherinGirl-Jennifer]

Loved this movie! I was in high school when it came out and thought the dumb jerk with the flannel around the waist and leather jacket (yes, very much a style) was really hot. Just unfortunate that his character was an idiot. Watching you crack up laughing was the best part. Needed that laugh right now.

[@Melissa-wx4lu]

The way I saw the getting younger working was ...say they sucked the life force out of many children, they would most likely revert back to their prime. 30-25 years old and they would stay that age until the life force ran out and then they would start aging normally again.

[@dylandaly2002]

17:20 Yes please watch Evil Dead 2 & Army of Darkness both are amazing in their own scary and comedic way and Bruce Campbell is the GOAT.

[@AL-fl4jk]

I wanted a talking cat friend so badly as a kid because of this movie

[@garretdavis5378]

Salem is alot like Roswell is that their identity is very witchy but it's more of a memorial/ respect thing in Salem for the innocent women who lost their lives

[@rickymorphew2245]

my mom and her two sisters dressed as the Sanderson sisters for our Halloween party a few years ago

[@sleepymommy01]

Fun fact: Tobias Jelinek (Jay) was one of the Agents in Season 1 of Stranger things.

[@cheshirekat528]

Child murder and a public hanging, Disney had a moment. Clearly you haven’t seen The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) Give it a watch, lots of moments in that one 😜😆 Great reaction, I just recently found your channel, you have yet to disappoint! 👍👍 Someone else may have said this, the “Devil” and his wife are brother & sister in real life, Gary & Penny Marshall.

[@amarquez517]

I’ve found that people who have seen it as way back when - as children, have more of a forgiveness of what a new watcher might find corny. It’s very nostalgic for me personally.

[@dkoch2]

Salem, Mass has a lot of witch museums and landmarks

[@erichfellehner7449]

the actor playing Billy is Doug Jones from Star Trek Discovery [Saru] not sure the spelling of the character

[@michaelmartinez3893]

I love this movie. And especially SJP.

[@hippie2348]

You are the only other person I've heard say Jay looks like young Val Kilmer I've always said that too!

[@mortalballgt52]

I can't blame you for simping over Sarah. She's one of my earliest childhood crushes!

[@terrysilverthorn4582]

i didnt know till i saw it again years later and having been watching NCIS for years the brother of the girl (The Cat) in beginning is Sean Murray who plays McGee in NCIS with Gibbs. Disney has always been dark... nearly all their movies one the parents are dead or dies in the movie 1 parent movies.

[@caitlinpoole520]

i re watched this movie yesterday and Disney put a trigger warning for "tobbaco" and not the casual murders.

[@caitlinpoole520]

I'm not mad just baffled

[@codyt821]

Trigger warning for tobacco……Jesus Christ. I miss the 90s when things were simpler

[@emmapalermo8128]

Amazing reaction. Love the movie so much. Very excited for the sequel!

[@Michelle-DiPalo]

I saw a post somewhere that said they released the sequel at the end of September for 2 reasons. #1 it would be available for the duration of the Halloween season and #2 it would be directly competing with the other Halloween specials being aired throughout October.

[@mrs.ericalaurenhornmason3825]

I love ❤️ movie Hocus Pocus 1 and Hocus Pocus 2🧡🖤🧡🖤🎃🎃🎃🎃💋🐺👻🦉🧟🧟‍♂️🧛🏻‍♂️🐈‍⬛🐾🐾

[@arorarivers-rozell1132]

Your fucking laugh is killing me😭😭. I’ve never heard you laugh that hard before.

[@ChrisCollins068]

Yes. Salems identity is wrapped up in its history with the witch trials. ​Heres a few things nobody has mentioned yet. The local newspaper and the police cars all have witch logos on them. The high school football team is called the witches. There’s even an elementary school called witchcraft Heights. There are a few streets with the words witch or witchcraft in their names. Also the statue of Samantha Stephens from the old TV show ‘bewitched’ is in the town center. Lastly most of the magic and witch shops are open year-round even when tours stop during the colder months.

[@agsmith43]

Billy is played by the greatest creature/contortionist actor and horror icon, Doug Jones. Shape of Water, Pans Labrynth, Hellboy....he is amazing.

[@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110]

He’s back in the sequel, Hocus Pocus 2.

[@danielleyoung3133]

It was great seeing how much fun u had with this movie

[@ChronosTachyon]

Warning: long and rambley. It's 420 somewhere. The acting is so good in this. Each and every actor understood the assignment. Thora Birch managing to keep up with Bette Midler?!? Jegus, at her age I couldn't keep up with Bill & Ted era Keanu Reeves. I don't know off the top of my head, but I think the compositing here is not that unusual by 90s standards. Low budget movies and TV, sure, of course you don't blow your budget on a good compositing job. The odder thing is seeing it here, in what would otherwise have been a direct-to-VHS Disney flick until Bette Midler got involved. Basically, my read is that Midler had the star power that Disney figured, hey, if we're blowing money on casting Bette Fucking Midler, who's a singing diva with a very dedicated fanbase that overlaps heavily with our unexpectedly profitable adult gay/camp/drag/transfem audience, let's actually budget to make it good and release it theatrically. I bet they were worried that the Disney Renaissance was going to crash and burn at some point, so they wanted to diversify their audience. Probably not far off from how they ended up funding and then buying Pixar. Anyways. Back to 90s compositing vs today's. I'm not sure I've seen a well-composited big budget film since Lord of the Rings, outside of directors with the clout to demand spending money and time on VFX that are good rather than flashy. Flashy VFX are more abundant now, I suspect, because filmmakers can get away with lazier (cheaper) matching on fast cuts. It's just how the brain's visual processing works, and fast cuts have been the "in" style since MTV raised a younger generation on them.

[@walterbonsell]

Not sure if someone else commented on this yet but I literally spit my drink when you mentioned Allison's family's Halloween party being like Eyes Wide Shut because the actress who plays Allison was in Eyes Wide Shut! (also I'm writing this before I finish the video so if you make that connection later, I'm sorry! Lol)

[@rickymorphew2245]

Doug jones is always fantastic

[@PowderedToastMan420]

React to the 80's CLASSIC ROBOCOP! The NERD in you will LOVE it. I promise. 🤞✌️

[@Omn1Media]

I've seen that one and had a bunch of the toys too! haha

[@GibsonGH]

I had a crush on Sarah Jessica Parker too, but I had an even bigger crush on Vinessa Shaw (Allison) when this movie came out. I was 13 at the time and was crushing a lot. I think this movie still holds up. It has a certain charm to it.

[@Ladmia]

Bonus points for the Mooby shirt with this reaction.

[@princessjulieta]

I love this old movie. I've seen it a million times lol! I plan to dress up as a Witch for my sister in laws hocus pocus party this Saturday honey. The main event is watching hocus pocus 2 during the party with her and all the people attending this party sweetie.

[@gpeddino]

I love this movie so much. It's very funny and it has a bit of edge that we usually don't see in a Disney production, specially from the 90's.

[@savagehowler]

The animatronic cat used in this was also used in the Sabrina the teenage witch series

[@toddthechimeralinguist]

Wait -- were the Marshall Siblings playing a married couple? I need to watch this film again ...

[@EricAriel5]

Yep,that’s the part of the movie that creeps me out,lol.

[@toddthechimeralinguist]

@@EricAriel5 We're on the same wavelength there.

[@brycemiller414]

Disney afternoon was the greatest set of cartoons

[@chaosspear0195]

I always saw them as the three magical stowage’s its a fun movie not great but fun and the good thing is they’re was legitimate dark things ( which I love ) still being PG child death via soul cause witches sacrificed and well a hanging and burning way’s they used to execute witches.

[@serenitytoepper]

i like the cloak idea

[@danielleyoung3133]

Fuck yeah to bringing bk cloaks, I'm goth so I wear a cloak sometimes lol but it'd be cool if more ppl rocked them

[@Omn1Media]

Hell yeah

[@cyn6123]

First of all this was a great reaction to my FAVORITE Halloween movie! Second of all, I love your Mooby's shirt lmao. Dogma was a great film. Edit: My school had a kiln in it :)

[@serenitytoepper]

Rumor has it that the salt has to be purified by old priest or priestess's good magic light magic before it could be used. But I don't know if that is true or not. That's just what I heard.

[@Phoenix_DarkMoon]

Not true. Salt is naturally pure as, in most cases, it must be dug from the earth itself and the Earth is the source of purity. All the elements have the ability to purify in their own way through transformation but things that originate from within the earth are generally considered naturally pure.

[@serenitytoepper]

@@Phoenix_DarkMoon OK I won't argue with you. I just heard that.

[@Phoenix_DarkMoon]

@@serenitytoepper wasn't trying to argue, just a practicing witch putting in her 2¢

[@AlexDelarge1990]

"Disney... had a moment." yeah... they had a moment when they actually made good movies lol

[@gameoverman3673]

this is gonna be good

[@franticrage73]

Good reaction. Can’t wait for your reaction to Return to Oz tomorrow. One of my favorite childhood movies.

[@Winchester1984]

Lol I forgot iva. Ooz did the dance til you die thing.

[@morganspider-manmarvelfan6110]

I love the “I Put a Spell On You” part. Pretty iconic.

[@marlee837]

Is this a reupload or something because I swear I watched this I even remember everything that you were saying in the beginning about only ever catching the scene in the graveyard whenever the movie came on on tv or am I having deja vu???

[@Omn1Media]

I think you foresaw the future or something! haha

[@agsmith43]

....I seriously got a case of the deja vu as well. You are not alone! So weird.

[@jennrose92]

You're probably thinking of the video where he reacted to the trailer for Hocus Pocus 2. He mentioned the same thing in that video.

[@marlee837]

@@jennrose92 Ok yeah that might have been it lol but I could have sworn it was a reaction to the first movie it’s so weird

[@robertpresley1503]

I don't think they get progressively youger with each child they consume. They just want to stay "young" forever. Like probably stop in the 20s and just stay like that forever.

[@Invader_Rin13]

Speaking of watching the Evil Dead movies, did you also not watch the show? Ash vs Evil Dead? I think all seasons are on Netflix.

[@fernandovergara5327]

have you seen Legend? 80's movie with Tom Cruise and Tim Curry. Any thoughts?

[@danielleyoung3133]

The effects look pretty much the same as always. This is a movie like the nightmare before Christmas that gets put on every yr around Halloween lol. I'm straight and even I was hot for Sarah lmao

[@Omn1Media]

She's just got that magic something right?! haha

[@kascien]

I absolutely loved how much you enjoyed this movie! ^_^

[@jackiestow4294]

No Winifred and Billy was not married they were dating and he turned around and messed around with her sister Sarah that's when she poisoned him and sewed his mouth shut

[@rendalconstantineau1680]

It's called practical effects

[@Omn1Media]

I wasn't referring to the practical effects lmao I know what practical effects are, I'm in my mid 30s lol

[@rendalconstantineau1680]

@@Omn1Media Yeah, the thing is they are all going to be practical effects, there wasn't what we consider CGI in those days, other than the composing of shots together, it's all practical.

[@Omn1Media]

​@@rendalconstantineau1680 I still never mentioned CGI, all I said was either visual effects or special effects which is all encompassing. I was referring to the compositioning which is not an in camera practical effect and Binx isn't 100% practical either. They did use CGI to animate Binx's talking when the animatronic wasn't working out. Considering Jurassic Park came out the month prior, the CGI was impressive in this for that.

[@rendalconstantineau1680]

@@Omn1Media Ok, the parts where you were saying it in the video, I thought you were refer to effects that were on screen rather than compositing, and the one that doesn't hold up for me is Binx's talking actually. LOL But, if you were talking about the compositing, fair enough.

[@Omn1Media]

Yeah, I couldn't see any masking or compositing lines in any of the shots so if they were rotoscoping by hand still which I'm sure they were, they did a damn good job. The CGI animation for Binx's talking wasn't bad I thought especially considering the time.

[@aranerem5569]

How's it going?

[@Dan-B]

The trailers for the sequel look bad, is it worth a watch?...

[@the_last_centurion]

SJP with the milky white skin and that corset I thought was real hot. Probably kick started my kink for goth girls.

[@dmmoctober]

Does “swinger party” mean the same in the US as in the UK? I’m guessing not…

[@Omn1Media]

Swapping partners?

[@dmmoctober]

@@Omn1Media Ah ok lol yeah - assume you meant the music when u said it here tho?

[@kingmakaii]

I’m stand by what I say anytime I watch this movie Sara so damn fine

[@crookedchicken]

We're you alive when this came out. Sorry I suddenly feel very old.

[@Omn1Media]

I was 5 in 1993!

[@crookedchicken]

@@Omn1Media sorry, you just seemed much younger. I was 8 so I've only got a few years on ya.

[@Omn1Media]

@@crookedchicken No worries, people generally think the same! haha I was an '88 baby

[@crookedchicken]

@@Omn1Media Hope you enjoyed the movie, love the channel and wish you continued success.

[@codyt821]

I love this guys channel, but damn, he hardcore overthinks the most trivial stuff in movies and trails off into the most useless tangents lmao

[@headrushindi]

No offense but don't you think if you want to legitimately react to the sequel of a cult classic, you should have at least watched and understood the original? As soon as you said that I tuned out. "In the words of Kathy Najimy's character, " Bye Bye".

[@Omn1Media]

What are you talking about? This isn't the sequel. This video is me watching the ORIGINAL! What are you saying?! Lol

[@irishgamerkerrielouise]

Don't watch the sequel it's awful!!

[@TheGreekPianist]

So glad you finally experienced this Disney classic! I hope you enjoy the sequel as well! There’s a book too! 😁🧹