The “Hocus Pocus 2” Trailer Casts a Spell
Legend has it that a witch gets her powers on her 16th birthday. For three teenage girls living in modern-day Salem, what sounds like pure silliness turns out to be more like a warning. While celebrating a birthday, the three friends at the heart of Hocus Pocus 2 decide to spice up their lives with a birthday seancé, of sorts, and end up unwittingly conjuring the Sanderson Sisters. And abracadabra, new life is breathed into the Halloween classic of yore,
“Hocus Pocus 2” Starts Filming in Rhode Island
When Hocus Pocus was released in 1993, few people probably imagined that years later, as if by occult magic, the Disney film would become a cult classic and a beloved Halloween film. The original movie was directed by Kenny Ortega and starred three very game performers in Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy as the long-dead Sanderson sisters, a trio who also happened to be witches. The Sanderson Sisters were killed during the Salem Witch Trials in 1692,