History YMMV / HocusPocus

** Binx, [[GhostTrickPhantomDetective the ghost cat]].

* NightmareFuel: The book, zombies, immortal black cats [[spoiler: really a boy denied entrance to heaven]] and soul sucking witches.

* OlderThanTheyThink: In the 1964 short LooneyTunes short "Bewitched Bunny", Hanzel and Gretel turn to Witch Hazel and say, "Ack, your mother rides a vacuum cleaner" before fleeing.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The book, zombies, immortal black cats [[spoiler: really a boy denied entrance to heaven]] and soul sucking witches.

** Billy can count, too, as he also tends to be very popular among fans of this film.

* JerkassWoobie: The Sanderson Sisters embody this trope. Yes, trying to suck the life (and physical beauty) out of all the town's children wasn't a very nice thing to do. But who can really blame them? They were ugly and shunned by the other townspeople (with even Thackery Binx feeling free to insult them), and plastic surgery certainly wasn't an option for them in their time and place. In addition, they were pitifully stupid, hopelessly outclassed by modern technology and sophistication ("three old hags versus the twentieth century," as Max put it), and doomed to die at dawn if their plan fails. With all that in mind, [[CryForTheDevil it's understandable to get a little misty-eyed when they burn up at the end]].
** Unless you see [[MoralEventHorizon them absorb a little girl's soul and then turn the brother into a cat that can't even join his parents in heaven]] then you're convinced they're [[CompleteMonster evil]].
** An argument might be made for Sarah and Mary, but not for the above reasons. The two of them seem to be generally too stupid to actually do any harm on their own. Sarah's a frolicking, boy-crazy ditz, and Mary is constantly seeking Winifred's approval. Any time they do anything it's on Winifred's orders. The two of them just don't seem to know any better but to follow the orders of their older sister, and even though they'd go out of their way to try and save her, and each other, Winifred would probably never even think of returning the favor.

** Unless you see [[MoralEventHorizon them absorb a little girl's soul and then turn the brother into a cat that can't even join his parents in heaven]] then you're convinced they're [[CompleteMonsters evil]].

** Unless you see [[MoralEventHorizon them absorb a little girl's soul and then turn the brother into a cat that can't even join his parents in heaven]] then you're convinced they're CompleteMonsters.

* AccidentalNightmareFuel

* JerkassWoobie: [[YourMileageMayVary A case could be made]] that the Sanderson Sisters embody this trope. Yes, trying to suck the life (and physical beauty) out of all the town's children wasn't a very nice thing to do. But who can really blame them? They were ugly and shunned by the other townspeople (with even Thackery Binx feeling free to insult them), and plastic surgery certainly wasn't an option for them in their time and place. In addition, they were pitifully stupid, hopelessly outclassed by modern technology and sophistication ("three old hags versus the twentieth century," as Max put it), and doomed to die at dawn if their plan fails. With all that in mind, [[CryForTheDevil it's understandable to get a little misty-eyed when they burn up at the end]].
** Considering that it's their own fault that they're in that position, no it's not. They were only hung and regarded with suspicion because they were vain and unwilling to age, so they abducted and murdered a little girl and sucked out her soul. They turned her brother, who was a wee bit upset that they killed his sister, into a cat to spend an eternity living with his guilt. They all but state that they're perfectly fine with murdering every single child in Salem, just to remain attractive, and continue with that plan when they come back, when Salem has far more children and the citizens don't even suspect what's coming. And considering how easily they enchanted the entire adult population of Salem, the difference in time and technology hardly seemed to slow them down at all.

* NightmareFuel
* {{Squick}}: Tastefully averted. Emily Binx gets all the youth and vitality drained from her at the beginning of the film - but she slumps over in death, leaving only her ''gray hair'' visible. One can only imagine what her ''face'' looks like.

* HilariousInHindsight: When Max rescues Dani from certain death by the Sanderson Sisters, he says, "I know one kind of power that you don't have!" (or something like that), and Winnie asks, "And what is that, ''dude?''" before he replies with, "It's [[InternationalDateLine Daylight Savings Time]]," followed by the turned-on car lights pretending to be the sun that harms them. Of course, considering that it was a joke back in 1993 (when DST ended on the last Sunday of October in the U.S.), the new U.S. Daylight Saving Time rules weren't around until 14 years later, when DST now ends on the first Sunday of November from 2007 onward. Of course, the joke now still works ''only'' if [[AllHallowsEve Halloween]] happens to fall on the day ''before'' the first Sunday of November (Saturday, October 31).

** Binx, full stop. Heaven knows he's far more interesting than anyone else in the cast barring the witches, themselves. He's also most sympathetic character, given his [[NightmareFuel nightmare fuelish]] backstory.

* EvilIsSexy: Sarah

* JerkassWoobie: [[YourMileageMayVary A case could be made]] that the Sanderson sisters embody this trope. Yes, trying to suck the life (and physical beauty) out of all the town's children wasn't a very nice thing to do. But who can really blame them? They were ugly and shunned by the other townspeople (with even Thackery Binx feeling free to insult them), and plastic surgery certainly wasn't an option for them in their time and place. In addition, they were pitifully stupid, hopelessly outclassed by modern technology and sophistication ("three old hags versus the twentieth century," as Max put it), and doomed to die at dawn if their plan fails. With all that in mind, [[CryForTheDevil it's understandable to get a little misty-eyed when they burn up at the end]].

* JerkassWoobie: [[YourMileageMayVary A case could be made]] that the Sanderson sisters embody this trope. Yes, trying to suck the life (and physical beauty) out of all the town's children [[{{Understatement}} wasn't a very nice thing to do]]. But who can really blame them? They were ugly and shunned by the other townspeople (with even Thackery Binx feeling free to insult them), and plastic surgery certainly wasn't an option for them in their time and place. In addition, they were pitifully stupid, hopelessly outclassed by modern technology and sophistication ("three old hags versus the twentieth century," as Max put it), and doomed to die at dawn if their plan fails. With all that in mind, [[CryForTheDevil it's understandable to get a little misty-eyed when they burn up at the end]].
** Considering that it's their own fault that they're in that position, no it's not. They were only hung and regarded with suspicion because they were vain and unwilling to age, so they abducted and murdered a little girl and sucked out her soul. They turned her brother, who was [[{{Understatement}} a wee bit upset]] that they killed his sister, into a cat to spend an eternity living with his guilt. They all but state that they're perfectly fine with murdering every single child in Salem, just to remain attractive, and continue with that plan when they come back, when Salem has far more children and the citizens don't even suspect what's coming. And considering how easily they enchanted the entire adult population of Salem, the difference in time and technology hardly seemed to slow them down at all.

* GuiltyPleasures: For a lot of people, this movie is a holiday-themed one.

* ToyShip: Thackery/''Danni'', if you can believe it.

* Tearjerker: Admit it - you cried [[spoiler: when Binx died]], too.

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - [[spoiler: "Dani....please don't be sad for me."]]
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome - The aforementioned "I'll Put A Spell On You."
** Even if it's much, much shorter, "Come Little Children" is gorgeous. [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Thank you, Paw!]]
* EndingFatigue: Ah, good - the witches have been roasted alive!....But wait - they somehow managed to survive! Thank heavens, they can't do any more harm without Winnie's book....But wait - [[SarcasmMode those two geniuses, Allison and Max, got the bright idea to open it after Binx told them not to!]] Whew, Max just psyched the witches out with the old [[AccidentalInnuendo "headlights"]] ploy....Oh, darn - they just realized they're still alive!, etc.
* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* GuiltyPleasures: For a lot of people, this movie is a holiday-themed one.

* NauseaFuel - "A bit of thine own tongue."

* JerkassWoobie: [[YourMileageMayVary A case could be made]] that the Sanderson sisters embody this trope. Yes, trying to suck the life (and physical beauty) out of all the town's children [[{{Understatement}} wasn't a very nice thing to do]]. But who can really blame them? They were ugly and shunned by the other townspeople (with [[MoralDissonance even Thackery Binx feeling free to insult them]]), and plastic surgery certainly wasn't an option for them in their time and place. In addition, they were pitifully stupid, hopelessly outclassed by modern technology and sophistication ("three old hags versus the twentieth century," as Max put it), and doomed to die at dawn if their plan fails. With all that in mind, [[CryForTheDevil it's understandable to get a little misty-eyed when they burn up at the end]].

** Although they seem to simply spit into the potion, rather than cut anything off.
** Unfortunately, we can hear the sound affect of the crunch.