Hocus Pocus 2: Easter Eggs For Fans Of The 1993 Movie
When the original Hocus Pocus movie landed in theaters in 1993, movie fans weren’t searching for Easter eggs on the big screen. There were still a lot of hidden details in that particular movie, like costumes being reused from other Disney projects for the Halloween party sequence. In modern movies, however, audiences are more aware of Easter eggs, especially in those that reference now beloved classics.
Hocus Pocus 2, released on Disney Plus 29 years after the debut of the original, provides a new story for a new generation. However, it relies heavily on nostalgia for older audience members. As a result, there are plenty of nods to the original movie.
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Hocus Pocus 2 opens in a familiar way, with an overhead shot of someone flying over water and a 1600s Salem. This time around, it’s the Mother Witch in the form of a bird. But in the 1993 movie, the shot was of Sarah Sanderson on her broom as she called to Emily Binx.
Interestingly, Sarah’s song also gets a spot in the opening sequence as Sarah is the only one young enough to still be lured to the Mother Witch with it before Mary and Winifred stop her. The Mother Witch’s dress will look familiar to fans as well. In addition to her bird form resembling the coloring on the collar of her dress, the collar and trim is also the same as the trim on Dani’s sweater for her witch costume in the first movie.
While the inclusion of Cobweb as Gilbert’s cat is a nice reminder of Binx, there’s another nod to him when Winifred and her sisters first get the book from the Mother Witch.
One of the first spells the girls see is a transformation spell that they think would be fun to use on the teenage boy Winifred has been chosen to marry. It gets used 40 years later
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