Hocus Pocus (film)/Fridge

• Fridge Horror:
  • The actresses' performances make light of how evil the Sanderson sisters are. Then you start to think about what they're trying to do, and that before they were caught, they were presumably doing it for a while. Even the other two, who are less outwardly dark, become creepier when you think about it. Sometimes, especially the other two.

Winifred: (about Binx) Whatever shall we do with him?
Mary: Let's barbecue and fillet him!
Sarah: (childlike, reaches wantingly) Put him on a hook and let me play with him!
Winifred: (pushes Sarah back): NO!

• • Let's assume that the brooms had been around since the Sanderson Sisters were alive back in 1693 and if some kids tried to fly on the brooms but failed in the past, then with the sisters' resurrection the magic has returned to them and stays. But what if some three girls were flying at sunrise when the magic could leave...?
• Fridge Logic: Winnifred can summon lightning from her fingertips, she and her sisters can hypnotize people with their voices, transform people into animals, curse them with diseases and have the power of Flight. So how did the Salem townfolk capture and execute them so fast? And why didn't they try it before? Even if they didn't think they were witches (opposed to the movie's implication that it was common knowledge), Winifred poisoned her lover Billy Butcherson and the whole town seemed to know about it. A lot of arguments could be made to answer questions like this, but the film doesn't seem particularly bothered to.
  • Max was really the first virgin to be tempted to break into a creepy, reputedly haunted building and tempt fate by lighting the candle?
    • Maybe the first virgin to attempt it on a Halloween evening, when the moon was full.
  • Also, Winifred swoops in on the kids by taunting them with Max's earlier Ironic Echo, "It's all just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!" Then you suddenly realize Winifred wasn't Back From the Dead yet when Max said it, and couldn't have heard it.
  • How did Max's teacher know Thackery's story?
    • He's probably communicated with people in the past. When first turned into a cat, he tries to get his father's attention, but can do nothing but meow. 300 years later he's capable of intelligent speech. Presumably he tried to talk to people at some point and told his story. But he's also Genre Savvy enough to know that letting the world know the witches are real would be Tempting Fate, so he keeps quiet.
  • So the Sanderson house is now a museum. Given the legendary status of the sisters' story, and the locals' general love of Halloween, you'd think the museum would be, you know, open.
• Fridge Brilliance: Allison accidentally bumps into an oven while hiding in the alley while the sisters are searching for them. This gives the protagonists the idea to attempt to bake the witches in the pottery kiln at the high school. Sound familiar?