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**** A logical thing to assume, but recall that Allison asks the cat if he is Thackery Binx and then says "so the legends are true".
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**** Judging by the look of the place, it had been abandoned for ''years'', not hours. Moreover, precisely on Halloween it would actually make sense to keep the museum open for the entire night.
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*** Alternatively, the friends might have told her that there were weird things happening in the place where sisters used to live but not that the place had been turned into museum (which is even more plausible given that the museum was not working anyway).
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*** And it makes sense that he initially looked like he was trying to fulfill Winnie's orders: if she saw that he was actively disobeying, she might have come up with something else to get the children, whereas Billy's apparent obedience makes her think that those grounds are covered (forgive the pun) and leave the scene.
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*** And the might not even have been questioned about Emily and Thackery only - who knows what else had been going on in the town... Take Billy's demise, for example...

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*** And the they might not even have been questioned about Emily and Thackery only - who knows what else had been going on in the town... Take Billy's demise, for example...
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** Is it established that Ice and Jay don't go to school? They are definitely not stellar pupils and probably skip a lot of classes, but still they may well be schoolchildren.
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**** And the might not even have been questioned about Emily and Thackery only - who knows what else had been going on in the town... Take Billy's demise, for example...
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*** Note that it wouldn't necessarily have change anything: the parents would probably still have come under Winnie's spell, and the "policeman" would obviously not have helped the kids anyway.
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** Also, with sisters' fascination with everything infernal it kind of makes sense that hellish fire does not kill them.
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** And note how he doesn't actually die when the witches do. He's already near death when Winifred throws him against the tombstone. So maybe the pep talk he got from Max allowed him to alleviate his guilt, as well as protecting another young girl from the witches; meaning this time he would die for real - and had he not been fatally injured, presumably he'd still be alive when the sisters turned to dust but could eventually die for good.


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*** And doesn't Binx knock over the cauldron to spill most of the potion? So while they were able to drain some life from Emily to make themselves younger, it's possible they needed to use all of it on the children in Salem to get to that power level.


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*** So the opening is a ThirdPersonFlashback, and the teacher is only telling the story that everyone in town knows, and the audience sees what actually happened.
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** They might have initially assumed Thackery's immortality was of the "Can't die of old age" variant, but he'd still be vulnerable to injury or illness.


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** Hair color genetics are weird. Depending on the hair colors of the parents and grandparents, all three of of those could be reasonably plausible from the same set of parents.


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** If she didn't want to go, she probably played dumb in hopes they wouldn't drag her to something she was unfamiliar with. Either that or her memory was only jogged after she initially said that.
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** Shock and panic can do funny things to someone's head, so yes it's entirely possible the kids forgot because their first reaction to their pet/friend being hit by a bus was "oh no bad".


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** Cats can live up to 20+ years and Max could have taken him with him when he moved out for college in a few years. Just pretend it's a new cat every couple decades and that you're too lazy to give them different names.
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*** Unlikely, as the sequel seems to imply that the three sisters share the same father.
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** They probably had that candle long before they got hanged.

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** They probably had that candle long before they got hanged.hung.
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** Different fathers.


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** They probably had that candle long before they got hanged.
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* At Allison's party, Dany told her she didn't know there was a museum about them. When Allison goes to change Dany tells Max she doesn't want to go because her friends told her it was weird. Why did she tell Allison she didn't know when moments later she says she does to Max.
*Who created the black flame candle after the sisters were hanged?
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Just fixing a typo: Changed "Winfield" to "Winifred".


* Just a minor one but if they're sisters then how come they have different hair colors (Winfield is strawberry blonde, Sarah is blonde and Mary is a brunette) wouldn't they all have the same hair colored instead of different colors I'm pretty sure hair dye didn't exist in 1693.

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* Just a minor one but if they're sisters then how come they have different hair colors (Winfield (Winifred is strawberry blonde, Sarah is blonde and Mary is a brunette) wouldn't they all have the same hair colored instead of different colors I'm pretty sure hair dye didn't exist in 1693.
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*When they steal Emily's life force at the beginning, how come Sarah was the only one that looked like she aged considerably younger as a girl in her twenties while Winifred and Mary looked like they were in their mid-30s and 40s shouldn't they have looked younger just like Sarah
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* Just a minor one but if they're sisters then how come they have different hair colors (Winfield is strawberry blonde, Sarah is blonde and Mary is a brunette) wouldn't they all have the same hair colored instead of different colors I'm pretty sure hair dye didn't exist in 1693.
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**He was trying to help them, but they kept running because he was a zombie, and his mouth was sewn shut so he couldn't just shout to them. He only grabs Max when he holds up a knife, and then uses it to free his lips.
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****Have you ever MET a teenager?! Teen boys of Max's age are OBSESSED with sex, they may still be developing but they're extremely horny, he's clearly attracted to women or at least Allison so his labels have nothing to do with him being a virgin, and 15/16-year olds absolutely are concerned with sex over studies, chores, and hanging out with friends.
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** Until the sequel addresses it, perhaps the sisters don't even get to go to Hell when they turn to dust? Maybe the exchange for the spell to come back is that if they die again, it's complete CessationOfExistence with no afterlife at all.

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** Until [[Film/HocusPocus2 the sequel sequel]] addresses it, perhaps the sisters don't even get to go to Hell when they turn to dust? Maybe the exchange for the spell to come back is that if they die again, it's complete CessationOfExistence with no afterlife at all.
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* When Max and Dani go trick-or-treating and come across Ice, Jay and their gang, forcing Max to relinquish his candy to avoid Ice taking Dani's, why don't they resort to a better way to avoid them, like leaving through the back of the house or notifying the owners so they would shoo the vandals away? Besides, why does Max get so angry at Dani for "humiliating" him in front of the whole school? Ice and Jay don't go there, and assuming the gang members do attend the same school, they aren't all of the school's students.
* When Thackery Binx is run over by the bus the Sanderson Sisters took, why do Max, Dani and Allison get so sad about his "death" (which is undone seconds later due to his immortality curse) if Binks had explicitly told them that he couldn't die? Do these three kids have very bad memories?
* Assuming that the Sandersons had actually died in the school's oven and Thackery stayed with the Dennisons as their pet, how did Max and Dani plan to explain to their parents about their strange pet cat? Yeah, maybe Binks could be told to not talk in front of Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, but they would have surely noticed something weird over the years upon witnessing Thackery never aging...
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*** IIRC, Winnie herself points this outcome as the one that would befall on them if they failed to suck the lifeforce of Salem's children.
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** Had to try ''something''.

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