If ever there’s an occasion for movie magic, it’s Halloween. On film the holiday always looks so right. Not true to life, mind you. Right . The moon is always full, the autumn weather perfect. Lights and decorations are old-fashioned and plentiful. Ditto the trick-or-treaters—and just look at their costumes: quality. Even in a Disney movie there’s nary an acetate princess in sight. Yeah, it may all be a bit Stepford-y, but how I love it. I want to be in it! “Wow, check out this house!” Consider Hocus Pocus, a piece of semi-amusing silliness from 1993. Presumably because it’s Salem, Mass., everybody in this town is into Halloween, starting with the witch-hatted schoolteacher (Kathleen Freeman) who introduces our so- not -into-it protagonist (Omri Katz) to the legend of the Sanderson witches. If folks aren’t giving out candy in this version of Salem, they’re throwing parties, or heading to one. So naturally when the newly reconstituted Sandersons drop into the fe...
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