‘Hocus Pocus 2’ defangs the Sanderson sisters, writes YohanaDesta, but bewitches in other ways.
needed time for its legend to grow. When it was first released in 1993, the Halloween tale about three witchy sisters—played with panache by—stomping around modern-day Salem and trying to steal the souls of children was a critical and commercial misfire. It was a movie for kids that was surprisingly adult in nature, brimming with sexual innuendo , devilish concepts, and layered cameos that no child would understand.
The store is frequented by two dark arts-obsessed teen girls, Becca and Izzy , who make it a point every Halloween to go into the woods and cast spells. They’re usually accompanied by their third best friend, Cassie , but she’s too cool to hang this year, drifting out of the friend group and on to more teenagerly things, like throwing a house party behind her dad’s , appealing directly to the preoccupations of Gen Z.
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