Keeping with a Halloween theme for Musical Monday, I selected some spellbinding songs from the film Hocus Pocus.
Every Halloween season, I dust off the DVD and watch this bewitching movie with my two girls. The film features Kathy Najimy, Sarah Jessica Parker and the amazing Bette Midler as the Sanderson sisters, three witches who were hanged in Salem, Massachusetts over 300 years ago.
After a virgin lights a black candle on All Hallows Eve some 300 years later, they return to Salem in modern times seeking eternal life by sucking the life out of young children. As gruesome as this tale sounds, it delivers quite the rib-tickling comedy. My girls and I love Hocus Pocus for all the tricks and treats it offers.
Before Sex in the City, Sarah Jessica Parker sang in the sky of Salem trying to lure children to her sisters’ home.
And of course, no Bette Midler film is complete without the enchanting howls and charms of the Divine Miss M. One of my favorite scenes is when the Sanderson Sisters crash an adult Halloween party and cast a spell on an unsuspecting crowd.
So, how about this Halloween you spellbind your loved ones with a little Hocus Pocus?
8 Comments
October 12, 2009 at 7:01 am
i could use a little hocus pocus right about now!! great halloween post!!!
October 12, 2009 at 8:41 am
Oh, I love this movie so much. (Although I never understood why they put those awful teeth on Bette Midler — or why she let them!) Great movie and it also reminds me of a few Halloweens spent partying in Salem, the most fun place to spend Halloween.
October 12, 2009 at 10:53 am
I’ve seen that movie at least 50 times. lol
October 12, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Oh, I love that movie! I think my kids are finally old enough to watch it with me this year, so that’s even better.
Great post!
October 12, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Great for this time of the season. Excellent my friend
Aloha and Happy MM
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October 12, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Ok, now I’m going to have to watch this movie! Excellent choice!
I didn’t even know Sarah Jessica could sing!
October 13, 2009 at 12:38 am
Bette Midler just makes it she is amazing!