Hocus Pocus (film)/Fridge
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?
- Thackery and Elijah weren't affected by Sarah's spell, though they are children, and Emily was completely enthralled. The same happens when Sarah sings in modern Salem, while Alison and Max remain immune. By Salem standards, the teens are already adults, hence why Thackery was put in charge of watching Emily. The witches didn't update their spell to include "teenagers" as children.
Fridge Horror:
- Mr. Binx found his daughter Emily's dessicated corpse in the cottage, just mere minutes from saving her. And he had to bury her in that state. No wonder he's practically in tears when interrogating them about Binx.
- The last time Elijah saw Thackery was when the latter ordered him to get help to stop the witches and save Emily. It's obvious the two were good friends in life, as well as neighbors. He never found out what happened to Thackery, and probably had to live with the guilt that he survived due to coming with an angry mob.
- 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.
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Winifred: (about Binx) Whatever shall we do with him? |
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- 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...?
- After Max drinks the potion, Winifred tries to eat his life. Fortunately, either it doesn't work because he keeps fending her off when she's on his broom and later she turns to stone on hallowed ground, or she didn't drink enough to live past dawn. If the latter is the case, let's hope he doesn't need those extra years.
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.
- Binx mentioned he was able to stop the previous attempts.
- 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.