With Hocus Pocus 2 just barely on the horizon (with Daylight Savings Time accounted for), it's time for a retrospective of the camp classic Hocus Pocus. This 1993 witchy romp through Salem lives in its own bizarre bubble. Not a love letter to the genre like Shaun of the Dead nor a stoner comedy like Idle Hands, this hair raising tail is a pop infectious masterpiece of joy and darkness.
And John and Magnus wouldn't have it any other way.
Join them as they talk costume, location, the genius of Billy Butcherson, Sarah as Sarah, why a movie so focused on virginity can still have an unclear attitude on it, and how chewing the scenery isn't always a bad thing. And then round the discussion out with a hypothesis about Hocus Pocus 2 and also why fun at movies is a very good thing.
Listen in to the movie that Roger Ebert seemed to hate more than any other movie he ever reviewed - Hocus Pocus.
