This movie is so fricking good its crazy. It feels so original and its the perfect blend of horror and family humor
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This movie is so fricking good its crazy. It feels so original and its the perfect blend of horror and family humor
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You don't become a cult classic for nothing.
It’s literally real life.
I want to frick (FRICK) Sarah Jessica Parker.
>oh no don't suck my soul out (of my penis) haha
it's also the one movie SJP is hot in
I was going to pull up a picture from Ed Wood to prove you wrong, but never fricking mind. I didn't realize how big her fricking chin was. I guess my memory of this movie really made her look a lot better than she was
Flight of the Navigator
too young looking, i like how she looks like a prostitute in this hocus pocus
at one point i hadn't watched it for a few years, and i thought the zombie subplot of the movie was from an entirely different movie just about the zombie dude. underwraps doesn't help
This feels like a shill thread. Not that you're wrong, but a thread like this just happens to appear right when the disney shilled sequel is out? He orchestrated it, Disney!
The new soulless sequel reminded me to rewatch the original and reminded how good movies used to be
its october homie
it'sa spooky month homie
Whoa its almost like this board is about discussing movie releases or something
the frick is up with thread spam about this
Well October is apparently "praise child sacrifice" month, so they have to push this garbage.
This movie is one of the worst I've ever seen, and just another step in the ladder of normalizing abuse of kids ... now they get another one. gays and child abuse, just every day life for hollywood.
The new movie is bad and the old one was a bomb and only got popular when it went to blockbuster cause it had one good song in it.
It's definitely funny how this movie is the perfect example of a movie organically becoming a cult favorite and then being forced into the mainstream by its studio. The movie came out in July originally, nobody fricking watched it. Then it kept replaying on Fox Family/ABC Family all October for YEARS in the 90s and 2000s probably because it was cheap to license. That got all these millennials to watch it and grow to like it, which then through social media turned it into a juggernaut of "hey do you remember this?" Disney catches on, starts slowly introducing it to the parks around Halloween and putting out merchandise, and then it begins to build manufactured hype amongst young millennials and zoomers who give it more significance than it really ever had. Now you can't go anywhere without stumbling onto millennials raving about how special it was to them and so on, throwing Hocus Pocus 2 watch parties or buying their kids Winnifred plushies. Meanwhile all of this could have happened to ANY movie from this time period, this just happened to be the one so now you have people paying upwards of $100 for old newspaper ads that used to be run so often people probably wiped their butt with it
>Tldr this movie is a perfect example of just how much power Disney has to influence your memories of childhood
Nah watched this movie on VHS from my older sister. Not on TV, so your tldr post is cringe
Hmmm. In the UK it was very very popular.
I don't get this whole zoomer attempt at revisionist history, trying to (incorrectly) explain why Hocus Pocus got big. Been seeing it in all these threads.
Most people watched this on VHS. Not even rental, but on home video. No one cares that it was on TV except zoomers probably. Other movies that were also on VHS that became cult classics in a similar way (from personal experience), Hook, The Great Mouse Detective, The Land Before Time etc.
It wasn't even the preeminent Disney Halloween IP, there were two horses that released the same year (Hocus Pocus and The Nightmare Before Christmas) and Disney chose to back TNBC. What you described as being done for Hocus Pocus was actually the treatment that TNBC got.
Disney didn't even really lean into Hocus Pocus until the 2010s and only then because by that time everyone had gotten tired of TNBC (which even got a Kingdom Hearts tie-in which Hocus Pocus never did), and even then the Sanderson sisters only had a tenuous connection with Disney and the greater Disneyland in general. Disneyland had its own spooky IPs with the Haunted Mansion and related movies.
Post 2010 is when Disney truly started taking proactive steps at acknowledging the poularity of the franchise.
The frick are you talking about? I didn't mention whether it was on VHS or not. I don't remember us owning it, I guess a lot of people did. I definitely remember it being on TV often though. I do remember it being advertised pretty heavily at Blockbuster so maybe people were renting it a lot, but again that wasn't my experience. It really was just one of those movies that my siblings and I watched on TV non-stop around Halloween, and then when it started coming up after we became adults we just sort of fell into the nostalgia trap like a lot of other people. It's like Christmas Story where we all just grew up seeing it on TV so often that the nostalgia and cult following were forced upon us. I don't know why you and these other posters are acting like you are all magically experts and I'm the moron. There's nothing in what I've said that contradicts what you guys are saying, I think you just want to be right. Why couldn't we both be? And there's definitely something going on with this movie and Disney manufacturing the nostalgia because other movies from its time don't have the same sort of broad support. I don't see people running around begging for a Toil and Trouble sequel despite, as you say, probably a lot of little girls having that movie on VHS. I definitely think you're right about Disney deciding to jump off Nightmare and onto this movie though. Nightmares definitely played out at this point, and I think all those teenagers who made it their personality back in the 2000s became adults who kind of wanted something else to latch on to
The endless nostalgia dredging already came for the Sandlot years ago, I imagine they'll dig up Casper's corpse next.
DUMBFRICK ZOOMER ALERT. This shit was in every girl's VHS collection. It was as commonly watched as Mary Kate and Ashley movies. You don't know what the frick you're talking about and you obviously weren't around to know, so stop pretending.
Thats… not accurate. I remember my neighbors (two sisters) playing it every halloween on VHS and them watching it during slumber parties. It was quite the popular film with females. After about 2000 its popularity dwindled and then it looks like recently made a come back as disney started to shill it.
Three israelites trying to suck the life out of children. What were they trying to tell us?
Can't remember the first time I saw it, certainly as a kid in like 1994 or 1995, not in theaters though. Could have been at school or maybe summer camp or maybe a afterschool program, they'd play movies sometimes. And then it would run on the Disney Channel every so often. It was never not-popular and had already been a Halloween staple. It's a fun film but trying to run it into the ground like that Christmas Story movie will make people resent it very fast. People legit hate A Christmas Story simply because it's been forced so hard for the last decade.
>thought SJP was a total smoke show watching this as a kid
>she still looks good in the sequel
>don’t find her attractive in anything else
What is this phenomenon?
Is there any cleavage in Hocus Pocus 2?
No. And she looks ancient in it.