Hocus Pocus 2

No movie can escape the post-credit scene. Hocus Pocus 2 is no exception. Read on as we delve into what happened to the Sanderson sisters in the Disney ...

It's an obvious set-up for a third movie and we can't rule anything out, although it would be a shame to backtrack on the emotional finale. They fight, and the three girls join forces to put protect themselves from the sisters spells. However, the girls trap the sisters in a salt circle. A relieved and joyous Winnie transforms into sparks which merge with her sisters' sparks and shine brightly before disappearing. However, the spell doesn't bring them back; instead, it sends Winnie to them. Gilbert is tasked with finding the head of Winnie's lover (aka Billy Butcher) among other things to complete the permanency spell. In the case of Hocus Pocus 2, the Sanderson Sisters (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker) return to wreak havoc on Salem. Becca and Izzy escape using Angelika leaves to remove the curse, but don't notice that it's actually channeling Becca's natural witchy abilities. The candle magically sparks alight with a black flame, calling the Sisters back from the beyond. We begin Hocus Pocus 2 not in the present day but rather in the distant past, with the Sanderson sisters as young girls. [Hocus Pocus 2](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a31148112/hocus-pocus-2-disney-plus-release-date/) and [Top Gun: Maverick](https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a41186290/top-gun-maverick-biggest-sequel-ever/) have more in common than one might expect – which is nothing. He insists the rumours are true and that he saw them that Halloween night 29 years ago, but no one believes him.

Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy share what it's like to revisit the Sanderson sisters and what surprises are in store.

“I was excited about -- besides fans getting to be with their beloved characters -- was the origin story of our witches,” Fletcher said. “It’s about friendship,” she said. Would I be able to do it well enough that the fans are satisfied and happy? “Fans have been screaming from the hilltops,” Fletcher said. Over the years, “Hocus Pocus 2” has garnered a fanbase like no other. Since its 1993 release, “Hocus Pocus” has put a spell on audiences around the globe.

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Hocus Pocus 2 brings the Sanderson sisters back for more Halloween hijinks and manages to channel the fun of the original film nearly 30 years later.

Those who consider Hocus Pocus a Halloween staple are likely to find themselves embracing this new, two-film saga with the Sandersons going forward, as the trio’s return gives audiences even more of a good thing. Hocus Pocus 2 also does a fine job of avoiding the pitfalls some sequels encounter when attempting to add a new chapter to a film released several decades earlier. Much like the original film, the teenagers might be the story’s heroes, but the Sanderson sisters are the real stars of Hocus Pocus 2. Gossip Girl actress Whitney Peak portrays Becca, who accidentally resurrects the Sanderson sisters in the film, and carries her role in the family-friendly adventure well, with just the sort of earnestness that Disney films of this sort demand. Hocus Pocus 2 conjures up original cast members Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson, respectively, the trio of witches who were accidentally resurrected in the 1993 film and terrorized the town of Salem before being defeated by a group of precocious teenagers and a magical black cat. And because this is a time when everything old is eventually new again — particularly if it’s gained the sort of post-release popularity Hocus Pocus has enjoyed — Disney has decided to

The Sanderson sisters of Salem have returned to trouble a new generation in Hocus Pocus 2, the decades-later sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic streaming ...

And now, Disney+ is all set for the release of Hocus Pocus 2 today. The views expressed here are that of the respective authors/ entities and do not represent the views of Economic Times (ET). Also, in the original movie, Dough Jones plays Billy Butcherson, Winifred’s unfaithful lover. ET hereby disclaims any and all warranties, express or implied, relating to the report and any content therein. Hocus Pocus 2 is the sequel to the original movie and features the original cast to play the three witches. The original Hocus Pocus movie was released on July 16, 1993.

The long-awaited sequel features the three Sanderson witches we've come to know and love, with the movie starring the same iconic actors from the original such ...

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Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy return as the witchy Sanderson sisters in Disney sequel 'Hocus Pocus 2.'

And after their 1993 rendition of “I Put a Spell on You,” of course the witches are obliged to revive their Vegas-style lounge act here, this time while crashing (what else?) a Sanderson Sisters-themed costume contest — a self-congratulatory wink at how popular the “Hocus Pocus” phenomenon has become. That lengthy gestation speaks to the long, weird shelf life of the first “Hocus Pocus,” received as a campy misfire but reclaimed, over the decades, as a Halloween staple and (oc)cult classic. They’re particularly funny in one sequence in which Becca and her friend, Izzy (Belissa Escobedo), try to distract the witches from their pedicidal rampage by taking them shopping at Walgreens, where they’re duly wowed by the advanced sorcery of beauty products and automatic sliding doors. That’s what happens again in “Hocus Pocus 2,” this time by way of a rather smarter teenager, Becca (Whitney Peak), and a very dumb Salem historian, Gilbert (Sam Richardson), plus some tortuous story logic that brings the evil sisters whooshing back to life. Flash forward to the present day, which happens to be exactly 29 years after the events of the first “Hocus Pocus,” when a virginal high schooler ill-advisedly resurrected the Sanderson Sisters for one Halloween night of literally soul-sucking mayhem. [“Hocus Pocus”](https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-07-16-ca-13536-story.html) (1993), which, like “Avatar,” has now spawned a long-awaited follow-up.

Kellie Tomekowou, 5, landed an extra role as a preschooler during a Halloween festival scene.

"Its brought a lot of fun and confidence into their life," Tomekowou said. I have watched "Hocus Pocus" since I was a little girl," Caroline Tomekowou said. "It was really interesting.

29 years after the Sanderson sisters were last seen in Salem, a virgin, Becca (Whitney Peak), lights another black flame candle and releases them to cause ...

What’s more, between its prologue and post-credit sting, this manages to suffer from both prequelitis and sequelitis: introducing an unnecessary semi-sympathetic backstory to the Sandersons and hinting that the ending is really nothing of the sort. Both are increasingly tired tactics: not everything needs to be a franchise, and half the joy of the Sandersons is their unrepentant awfulness. Froy Gutierrez, as Cassie’s well-meaning but witness jock boyfriend, is a scene stealer when given the chance – but the film mostly splits its time between the high camp of the three sisters and the high stakes adventure for the young heroes, and that’s precisely what we’ve seen before. Things look promising in an opening prologue when Hannah Waddingham turns up as a sort of grand high witch, in flawless eye makeup and entirely in the campy spirit of the thing. That’s no fault of the supporting cast: Sam Richardson, as a magic shop with expert knowledge, brings an understated edge of sarkiness, and Tony Hale is fun as the town’s mayor. 29 years later, a belated sequel recreates exactly the same beats in ways that will delight fans but seem unlikely to win over anyone else.

Salem, Massachusetts hasn't changed all that much since Max (Omri Katz) and Dani Dennison (Thora Birch) accidentally resurrected the youth-seeking, ...

Becca and Cassie were definitely at odds with each other at the start of Hocus Pocus 2, mostly thanks to her jerky jock boyfriend who mocked Becca for being a witch, but by the end of the film, the trio is thick as thieves again, having rekindled their friendship in the face of true terror. At the beginning of the film, the Sanderson Sisters are shown as their younger selves in the 1600s, wreaking havoc on Salem, and, in Winnie’s case, actively avoiding being married off to the son of the reverend. In Hocus Pocus, we learned that Billy Butcherson was Winnie’s ex-boyfriend (though Sarah vehemently claimed he was her boyfriend too) who met a tragic end when Winnie decided to poison him in the 17th century, before resurrecting him as a zombie 300 years later. As she slowly turns to colorful sparkles, she seems satisfied with the fact that she’s joining her sisters in whatever afterlife has been afforded to them. In the early flashbacks, Hocus Pocus 2 makes it clear that Winnie’s main motivator throughout her entire life was to keep the three of them together. [Bette Midler](https://collider.com/tag/bette-midler/)), Sarah ( [Sarah Jessica Parker](https://collider.com/tag/sarah-jessica-parker/)), and Mary ( [Kathy Najimy](https://collider.com/tag/kathy-najimy/)) after unwittingly playing into a 30-year plan to summon them from the grave once more.

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The truth about the original “Hocus Pocus” is harder to swallow than a witch’s brew containing “a bit of thine own tongue”: It’s a very bad movie. Never is OG Hocus Pocus director Kenny Ortega’s absence more felt than in the film’s big musical number, which doesn’t hold a (black flame) candle to Midler’s vampy rendition of “I Put a Spell On You” from last time around. The central trio of Midler, Parker, and Najimy fail to recapture the gleeful chaos of the first outing. All in all, it’s twice as good as “Hocus Pocus.” It’s easier to write that if you didn’t like “Hocus Pocus.” Hocus Pocus 2 is stuck, trapped somewhere between different times, audiences and tones, trying to do so much yet, in this instance, achieving so very little. The new sequel, “Hocus Pocus 2,” out on Disney+ 29 years later, is much, much worse. That’s “Hocus Pocus 2.” It manages to tell its story straight, so that’s a huge improvement over the first one. The highlights of the first film are celebrated (there’s a delightful musical number) and there are some very funny moments, including a Sanderson sisters costume competition. Though it’s been nearly 30 years, all three bring the same verve to their performances, gamely swooning and shrieking around the screen, and leaning into the film’s “Three Stooges”-style slapstick with aplomb. [64 percent freshness rating](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hocus_pocus_2) at the time of this article’s publication. Thankfully, with a cast rounded out by Doug Jones, Hannah Waddingham and Sam Richardson, the brew-haha’s aren’t solely concentrated in the three leads. This time around, two best friends named Becca and Izzy (Whitney Peak, Belissa Escobedo) celebrate Becca’s 16th birthday in Salem’s Forbidden Woods, where they are unwittingly tricked into lighting the Black Flame Candle that summons the Winnifred, Mary, and Sarah Sanderson (Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy, and Sarah Jessica Parker, respectively) once more.

The long-awaited sequel to the Halloween favorite is now streaming on Disney+.

We’re a very decisive group which goes also goes to show that women can be decisive.” Whatever it is that our mission is, there’s not a lot of second-guessing which I don’t think you see a lot.” And we talked a lot about leaning on each other and counting on each other and loyalty to each other. She has a core friend group and no matter what happens, she eventually gets to [make] sure that she has her sisters behind her the entire time.” I think she is a very good example of misstepping and not being able to figure it out until she communicates with her best friends. “You know, as a fan of the movie itself, this was directed right at me. It wasn’t like you were just a lackey. “I think I just admire that she just has this, like, blind loyalty to these girls, [and] will do anything for them, no questions asked—totally would go against three evil witches.” “And I think it’s amazing that, you have one end of horror, and then you have this end of camp. “He kind of matches the energy and the floppiness and the fun and the overdone characters of the sisters. Advertisement io9 recently participated in the press conference for the film with the cast and creative team to discuss the making of the movie and why it t00k 29 years to get here.

The end credits scene of Hocus Pocus 2 suggests that this isn't the last time we'll see the new cast of characters.

While very little was revealed about the glamorous witch that the young Sanderson Sisters encountered in the woods outside of Salem in the 17th century, that leaves the door open for bringing her back in a future installment and exploring yet another motivated witch. Box 2567, with an additional label indicating that within the box is “B.F Candle #2.” There is no doubt in anyone’s mind that “B.F.” means Black Flame candle and that the box contains a second Black Flame candle. While Binx isn’t in Hocus Pocus 2, Cobweb certainly filled the void left behind by the adorable black cat, and it seems fitting that the feline should be the one to close out the film and tease what might be on the horizon for the newly minted franchise. But, of course, she doesn’t want to be separated from her sisters and in the end, she relinquishes control and lets herself be turned to shimmery dust so she can join her sisters in whatever afterlife has been afforded to them. You can’t have Hocus Pocus and the Sanderson Sisters without some casual, garden-variety child sacrifices. While the original Hocus Pocus felt like the end of the story, there was still plenty of room for Disney to revisit the sisters and their story and Hocus Pocus 2 proves that you can smartly lean into nostalgia with a legacy sequel, without sacrificing quality—though there definitely are sacrifices!

'Hocus Pocus 2,' streaming on Disney+, brings back Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters.

[was happening](https://collider.com/hocus-pocus-2-disney-plus-writer-jen-dangelo/), and Jen D’Angelo would be writing the script. Hocus Pocus 2 serves as both a prequel and a sequel, opening in 1653 Salem on the origin story of the Sanderson sisters. But somehow, the same Hocus Pocus magic works: the movie leans into larger than life qualities while still maintaining the spirit of a Halloween classic. [Where All The Strongest Hurricanes Have Hit the U.S. About six years later, rumors began to swirl of a potential sequel in the works, though nothing came to fruition immediately. Eventually, Disney+ took over the film. Slowly but surely, Hocus Pocus became a seasonal staple, especially for those nostalgic millennials who caught it on Freeform’s 31 Nights of Halloween. In 1984, Kirschner pitched the idea to Walt Disney Studios, pouring candy corn on the table, hanging broomsticks from the ceiling, and putting up hand-drawn pictures of black cats. Since 2011, the movie has made “It changes tone as casually as the actors don their masquerade costumes, and has no scruples about breaking its own mood altogether.” The plot itself arose from a bedtime story that Kirschner told his two young daughters in the 1980s. Their sights are set, conveniently, on Max’s younger sister, Dani Dennison (Thora Birch).

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With a lively, witty script by Jen D’Angelo, “Hocus Pocus 2” finds the Sanderson sisters Winifred (Midler), Sarah (Parker) and Mary (Najimy) unleashed on their present day town once more. Peak, who played Idris Elba’s daughter in “Molly’s Game,” is a standout. This is not a testament to my taste at the time, when I thought “Grease 2” was one of the best movies ever, but more so indicative of the undeniable averageness of “Hocus Pocus.” I don’t think it was just me, either. Midler, Parker and Najimy are all once again game to ham it up for the audience (and sometimes no one but themselves) with spells, songs and dances. Set in a Stars Hollow-like Salem, it’s the perfect Disney+ movie — seasonally appropriate entertainment that, for at least one night, may save a family from the doom of endless scrolling and indecision. And yet, much to my bewilderment, “Hocus Pocus” became a thing over the years.

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We had people coming from all over the world to visit the set and coming to the Armory. I was able to take a group of elementary school students from Providence on a school bus down to North Kingstown so they could see the interior of the magic shop. I was so excited to bring the sequel of the family film here. A lot of the forest sequences that you’re going to see where they are doing witchy craft stuff is in the Cranston Street Armory. I always knew I wanted to be a film director since I was a child. [Rhode Island Film and Television Office](http://www.film.ri.gov/), Cranston: responsible for bringing Hocus Pocus 2 to the Ocean State. Some may say it’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus, but the memories and the movie will live on for eternity. They did a lot of construction, they did flying sequences, they used the stage for the basement of the magic shop. Then I went out to Los Angeles and UCLA and [University of Southern California] film school, traveled around the world, and made a few movies and came back home in 2004. HOCUS POCUS has more recently become a cult classic since it was released in 1993, and Rhode Island recently got in on the lights, camera and action. The sequel, Hocus Pocus 2, cast a spell on the Ocean State by magically transforming its cities and towns last fall into Salem, Massachusetts, for filming many scenes in the movie, which was released Sept. Hocus Pocus 2 takes place twenty-nine years after the original — the movie’s tagline is “We’re back, witches!” — when three high school students accidentally conjure the Sanderson sisters to present-day times in Salem (which is eerily similar to the historic architecture in Rhode Island), and they must try to stop the child-hungry witches from wreaking havoc on Salem before dawn on All Hallows Eve.

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While the stage was used for interior and exterior shots, some street scenes outside the shop were filmed in Newport. The Sanderson sisters fly here. Rumors were rampant that the village would be burned to the ground to film a climactic final scene. But would she have done it for free? [Catholic high school](https://www.lasalle-academy.org/) doubles as the halls and classrooms of the Salem high school. The Forbidden Woods, which plays a central role in the plot, were built in a sound stage in the armory. The [Ivy League campus](https://www.brown.edu/) doubles as the campus for the Salem high school. We found out](https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2022/09/15/conjuring-house-tours-burrillville-rhode-island-promote-radio-contact-ghosts-bill-brock/7888077001/) What you need to know now that the movie is out](https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/regional/2022/09/20/hocus-pocus-2-classic-movie-coming-disney-sequel-bette-midler/8032561001/) [cast as an extra](https://www.providencejournal.com/story/entertainment/2021/09/08/hocus-pocus-2-extras-sought-ri-area/5769276001/), make it into the final movie? Witches are expected.](https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/local/2021/09/14/1670-s-village-rises-lincoln-park-filming-disneys-hocus-pocus-2/8334019002/)

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Walk to the left!’” “He and I went to town on any song under the sun that had the word witch, moon, cat, evil, you name it. “Will it take another 30 years?” he asks with a laugh. “There’s a part that’s not in the movie where Bette and I totally went insane: ‘We’re gonna slay ya/ then probably fillet ya/ it might upset ya/ but we’ll getcha.’ We worked really hard on it, and even when I think it’s good, there will always be that phone call at night from Bette saying, ‘We gotta fix this part.’ She’s endlessly striving for perfection.” “We had to work quickly, and since Bette is a consummate live performer, you don’t need to do more than a few takes with her and Kathy and Sarah, and you’ve got it in the bag,” says Ortega. Though critics panned the movie and the audio still has yet to be released, the sequence has developed a cultlike popularity over the last three decades as the film has become a Halloween-season staple. And that began with Bette: She had a great sense of humor about the work and her character that she would often crack herself up. She just couldn’t believe some of the places that Winifred Sanderson enabled her to go, and I just had to tell her, ‘Keep going!’” “At the time, I just couldn’t imagine getting all the way through this movie without taking advantage of her musical talent.” The original “Hocus Pocus” sees Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as sibling witches desperate to extract children’s souls in order to maintain their own youth. Composer Marc Shaiman, who regularly collaborated with Midler on her musical performances onscreen and onstage, rearranged the track into a family-friendly showstopper that highlighted her soaring vocals and animated acting choices. [“Hocus Pocus 2,”](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2022-09-30/hocus-pocus-2-review-bette-midler-disney) Bette Midler shouts off a set of direct commands.

Anthony Bounphakhom shares what it was like being on set with stars Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker, aka the Sanderson sisters.

"It was such an awesome experience. "I can't wait to watch it and they don't know I'm in it yet!" There was a pleasant "Hi" from Najimy, the moment with Parker, and Midler proved herself the pro she is. The plan was to watch it with his students at The Block Collaborative Friday night. "I was like 'Wow this childhood character was bopping along with me!'" I was checking out the cameras and taking it all in. Some of the dancers were "grumpy," or uninterested. "It was one of those movies that gave you a feeling, rather than just a movie," said Bounphakhom, who has danced since he was 13. "This is my first big movie, my first time with the union. His assumption was it was a call for extras. The dancers' scene was shot with principals Midler, Najimy and Parker, aka the Sanderson sisters. And, yes, he was on set with the likes of Bette Midler, Kathy Najimy and Sarah Jessica Parker.