I don't like the movie, but I know it very well - Hocus Pocus

I wouldn't know Hocus Pocus as well as I do had I not crushed on the male lead since I was 12. If I'd seen it once and Leo (who was supposed to be in it) or any other guy, I'd have gone home from that sleepover and never thought of it again. It's classic Disney cringe. Thora Birch is the best part, the witches are iconic, I love they made it into modern day culture for being so camp and hilarious. It was the closest thing you could get to a female Three Stooges routine. But I can't sit through it the way I did as a kid, it's so discomforting and weird and sexually driven for a Disney movie. It wasn't intended to become a cult classic.

I also had very dark versions of this, like on VHS where some scenes were practically impossible to see unless they were in the daylight. They keep dropping trivia even now, (around Halloween, usually) and I discovered the male lead was high during some of his scenes. I saw a clip of Kathy Najimy came out in defense of Wiccans and was concerned for any negative depiction of witchcraft. And it's a horny movie as well. It does really ratchet up the innuendo, perhaps for the sake of any adults in the audience taking their under 13 kid to see it or if they watched it at home while babysitting. Addams Family (from the 90s) did a much better job with the humour, I think this is trying really hard to go with that and failing a bit. But I'm watching someone's reaction video and enjoying the way they're enjoying it and giving it shit. It's very much a movie you can lampoon for fun, it's what people love it for. But I don't love it as it wasn't a childhood favourite. I was 13 going on 14, maybe if I'd picked up the video in a store and saw who was in it I'd have freaked out back then and asked to rent it. I own a copy of Matinee more because I like it overall, and the male lead I'm referring to has a supporting role, and I don't skip scenes to get to them. But if I'd not really liked it overall, I'd have not bought it. I should rewatch Eerie Indiana, again something about trying to see this makes me feel awkward and 13 again, and that is a genuinely good show that was clever and existed in that early 90s period where the humour could be subversive and "adult" for young adults and get away with it. I don't sit down and watch Hocus Pocus for fun or Halloween or nostalgia. It is one of my cassette tape movies but it was obviously edited, I know some scenes better than others. I own it on BluRay, if I had kids in my house, I'd put it on.