Let’s be Hocus Pocus but all the witches are GAY MEN!

I just don’t understand this Hocus Pocus shit, even on a camp level it’s shit, and I definitely don’t need Gary Clayton or Jay Armstrong Johnson spending the month parading around in the outfits everyday.

[quote]I just don’t understand this Hocus Pocus shit

Hocus Pocus was the movie Bette Midler agreed to do if the movie studio financed For the Boys (1991).

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Let's admit that Hocus Pocus is actually a terrible movie, uninspired and devoid of comedy.

Stanley Kubrick saw this movie and offered Vinessa Shaw a role in Eyes Wide Shut.

Already done way back in 1970 (see drag queen witches). P.S, This song got to me as a little gayling and still does. Plus my celluloid crush on Jack Wild.

I thought Kubrick directed "Hocus Pocus".

No, that was Kenny Ortega, R6.

I’ve never seen this movie. Is it worth watching? Seems silly.

Aren't you queens a little old to be trick-or-treating?

[quote] I thought Kubrick directed "Hocus Pocus".

No, he directed "The Worst Witch."

He made Fairuza Balk re-shoot a scene a thousand times, and reduced her to a quivering sobbing mess.

I had such a crush on Omri Katz due to this film.

Isn’t he gay, R11?

We're doing it now!

.,.,

R8, he seems absolutely nuts.

I could totally see Willam Belli as Sarah. Prettier than SJP, too.

[quote] "I thought Kubrick directed "Hocus Pocus"."

Surely this is a joke.

And I don't know if Katz is gay R12, but director Ortega is (I myself didn't know that for a long time).

I saw this movie in theaters as a kid and loved it! Watched it many more times on home video. My little brother and I (both gay) and our sister would cosplay (with really bad homemade costumes 😂) the movie in the woods behind our house, which had a treehouse that we pretended was the Sanderson sisters' cottage. I was Winnie because I'm the oldest, my brother was Sarah because he always had to be the pretty one, and our sister was Mary by default. Since we live in central Mass. we made our parents take us to Salem and it became an annual tradition. Except for last year.

Last weekend, my brother and his husband hosted a HOCUS POCUS arts & crafts party at their house, attended by all three siblings, my 8-year-old niece, and two of our closest friends. We made a Black Flame candle, then proceeded to watch the movie for the umpteenth time. I lamented to my brother that it's really too bad there wasn't much, if any, HOCUS POCUS merchandise when we were little. They now have dolls, costumes, snow globes, decorations, stickers, shirts/sweatshirts, you name it. We would have loved it! But, alas, the movie bombed in theaters. Whose bright idea was it to release it in July? Good thing the film found an audience on videocassette and is now a cult classic. IMO, it's fun to watch, particularly the witches, and the practical effects still hold up.

Incidentally, does anyone remember the Disney children's horror series EERIE, INDIANA? Omri Katz was the star and I thought he was the cutest thing ever. He is the reason why I really wanted to go see HOCUS POCUS in the first place. 😁

I was vacationing with my friend, Stanley Kubrick...

I’m the spell I cast to make all cute guys gay and available.

I'm right you R1. The movie is fucking stupid.

I'm the virgin nowhere to be found.

[quote]No, that was Kenny Ortega

I’m the diddling.

Agreed, the idea of casting it with cis female gay icons was very of its time.

I think you can only appreciate Hocus Pocus if you're a child/tween or grew up with it. It wasn't made for adults, even though it has a few sexual innuendos that went over my head as a kid.

I’m Kathy Najimy, confident this film role will catapult me from a pack of nuns to superstardom.

The word 'twee' was invented for r18. I'm actually jealous, that sounds like fun.

I, myself, don't get the love of this film. My husband adores it but I always 'check out' when he puts it on.

Well, Froy is in the new one.

I'm Max assuming that Alison is a virgin who can light the black flame candle. I offer her the lighter but she demurs. I light the candle instead.

[Quote] Incidentally, does anyone remember the Disney children's horror series EERIE, INDIANA? Omri Katz was the star and I thought he was the cutest thing ever. He is the reason why I really wanted to go see HOCUS POCUS in the first place. 😁

Yes, i remember liking that show and having a crush on Omri.