History Headscratchers / HocusPocus

* Why did Creator/{{Disney}} allow so much fetish material in this movie? Sarah's obvious bewb window on the front of her dress (and her obsession with 'playing with' every male character in the movie)? The scene where Max is humiliated by little Dani's statement, one being, "Max really likes your yabos. In fact, he loves them." -shrug- It doesn't seem completely Disney to me, but then again, there are those Website/YouTube subliminal messages.

** Well most of the sex references will go right over a child's head. Most children would probably just assume that all Sarah would want to do is kiss at most. Children know about what boobs are as well, so they'd probably just take that as an innocent joke.
** Have you ''seen'' other 90s Disney films? [[Disney/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]] [[{{Disney/Aladdin}} Jasmine]] and {{Disney/Pocahontas}} were incredibly sexualised. We have a trope called ParentService - which is about {{Fanservice}} in family films specifically for the parents who'd be taking their kids to see them.

** The curse was so he would live forever with his guilt, so if he didn't felt guilty anymore, the spell would be broken. Saving Dani and finally defeating the witches allowed him to overcome that

*** What disturbs ME is that you and the person above would rather insist that a young child's had a sexual encounter rather than thinking that she's too innocent to really know what she's saying beyond it being insulting. You two sickos are the creepiest things on this page.

** He probably hadn't figured out how to talk as a cat yet. He had plenty of time to learn while waiting for the witches to revive.

** At times it doesn't even seem that Winnie is interested in eternal life--she's mostly driven by a desire to be eternally ''young.'' She also has a vendetta against Salem and its populace, given that her last words before being hanged are "The lives of all the children of Salem will be MINE!" As for her sisters: Mary's slavishly devoted to Winnie and would do anything for her, plus living children are [[ImAHumanitarian probably a lot tastier.]] And Sarah...well, Sarah's [[TheDitz]] and pretty much does whatever Winnie says; she's also probably on the hunt for some living men to "play with."

* Why did Creator/{{Disney}} allow so much FetishFuel in this movie? Sarah's obvious bewb window on the front of her dress (and her obsession with 'playing with' every male character in the movie)? The scene where Max is humiliated by little Dani's statement, one being, "Max really likes your yabos. In fact, he loves them." -shrug- It doesn't seem completely Disney to me, but then again, there are those Website/YouTube subliminal messages.

** If they made a DealWithTheDevil for eternal life and have been in hell, presumably when they were there at the time and said devil brought them back. They probably don't want to return as failures, because Old Scratch will subject them to some terrible punishment for failing to drain more children.
** Just because they enjoyed their time in Hell doesn't mean they don't enjoy being alive much more.

** Rule of funny for most of it, but always figured that the singing was part of their magic powers, i.e. "In exchange for eternal service to Satan, the Dark Lord will grant you the magical ability to sing mind controlling songs that are pleasing to the listeners."
*** Justified in that Sara's special power was enchanting song so it IS a valid magical ability.

* How exactly did the witches begin to brew the potion at all? Their home has been turned into a museum for centuries and surely any remnants of dead bodies (dead man's toe and oil of boils) were done away with centuries ago. How could the witches have acquired such ingriedients in the time between kidnapping Danny and Sarah returning from using her magic song? We can clearly see the potion is in its final stage, so it seems they either had the ingredients on hand (doubtful) or killed a few people on the way.
* Why did Disney allow so much FetishFuel in this movie? Sarah's obvious bewb window on the front of her dress (and her obsession with 'playing with' every male character in the movie)? The scene where Max is humiliated by little Dani's statement, one being, "Max really likes your yabos. In fact, he loves them." -shrug- It doesn't seem completely Disney to me, but then again, there are those Youtube subliminal messages.

* It might be just me, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around the fact that there were only two scenes where the witches showed their unfamiliarity with the modern world - the black river, the fire truck scare, the television in the devil's house, OMGWTF BURNING RAIN OF DEATH!!! Then suddenly they're going up to sing their VillainSong with the microphones and other new stuff, and somehow they know how to harmonize and sing pop-style. They aren't scared of the vaccum cleaner. Then Winnie yells at Max during one of the many ChaseScenes, "Pull over, let me see your driver's license." Whaat? Why would they know how to deal with all of this when they've only been alive for about three hours?

** If they made a DealWithTheDevil for eternal life and have been in hell, presumably when they were there at the time and said devil brought them back. They probably don't want to return as failures, because Old Scratch will subject them to some terrible punishment for failing to drain more children.

* What is the witch's goal in trying to live forever anyway? They mention a few times that they spent the intervening centuries in hell and enjoyed themselves; Sarah actually seems pretty cheerful to go back when they're defeated.

*** The only one to break in on a Full Moon during Halloween and not be thwarted by Binx. He's been guarding house the on Halloween night ever since the witches died to stop people doing exactly that

*** They likely spent the day searching for Thackery and questioning the sisters about what they've done with him. They make it clear they know something they aren't saying and they're hanged when the children's father finally loses his patience.

* How the hell did they survive the oven? I'm sorry, but that special effect makes ''no sense''. It's just a cop-out.
** They burn up in the fire, the oven timer shuts it off, and they're magically revived. The Black Flame Candle spell brought them back and would keep them alive until they used the life-sucking potion to give themselves non-spell-bound life or the light of dawn, whichever came first.
*** I don't remember anything ever being established about their being UNKILLABLE until dawn. PlotArmor is risky enough business in and of itself, but when it fails to be ''established''?!
*** The characters ''assumed'' fire would work because of the stereotype. Binx doesn't think they're dead and he's more in the know about magic stuff than they are.

** Sarah and Mary point that out to her, but she herself states that she wants Dani since the kid called her ugly.

** Fridge brilliance if you consider the fact that all their parents are still at the party under Winnie's spell. Most of the parents probably expected to be home hours ago so they may not have gotten anyone to watch the kids. At that age I would have probably stayed up and waited for my parents... especially if it was Halloween and I was hopped up on candy

*** They also sing at the beginning of the movie before being hanged (but the townspeople close their ears and fight it off.

** The witches in general and Winifred in particular are kind of vindictive and after an entire day of fighting with these damn meddling kids it probably didn't occur to her that any old kid would do fine. I guess you could chalk it up to IdiotBall or VillainBall either will do for why they didn't take a random kid initially and get their revenge later. Or just leave town and go to one of millions of cities around the globe where people don't even believe in witches anymore.