Somewhere in the Disney vaults sits a 1993 ledger listing Hocus Pocus as a disappointment, and somewhere in Salem right now a tour guide is pointing at a house because of it. Few movies have a resume this contradictory. A Halloween institution, a costume industry, a tourism engine, and a genuine piece of shared American ritual all grew out of a witch comedy that critics shrugged at and Disney released, for reasons that remain eternally funny, in…
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