Najimy revealed Hocus Pocus radically changed between scripting and release. "In it, Mary got to be set loose in a supermarket."īut this market mayhem is not all that was lost. ( Full Disclosure: I was the Q&A's host (Opens in a new tab).) "That was so fun," she'd told the packed house of the grocery store shoot. Kathy Najimy dropped some details about these deleted scenes in 2018, during a Q&A screening for Hocus Pocus at Brooklyn's Alamo Drafthouse. In it, the Sanderson sisters run amok (amok amok!) in a grocery store. While this makes for fresh fun, it's slyly a nod to a sequence that was cut from the 1993 film. Enthusiastically, the sisters begin guzzling skincare products and munching a beauty mask - which they assume is the skin of a baby's face - to get a glow-up. Naturally, the girls usher the Sanderson sisters into the fluorescent-lit aisles of a Walgreens for lotions ("Sounds like potions!") that promise restored youth. It all begins when teen witch Becca (Whitney Peak) and her bestie Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) try to stall Winnie (Bette Midler), Sarah (Sarah Jessica Parker), and Mary (Kathy Najimy) from eating the souls of children as a youth serum. The new movie has plenty of callbacks, ranging from song numbers and catchphrases to Easter Eggs, but there's one section that harkens back to a sequence that never even made it into the original movie! While there's plenty for newbies to enjoy, one of the sequel's sequences of shenanigans will give die-hard fans of Hocus Pocus cause to cackle. Hocus Pocus 2 resurrects the delightfully devilish Sanderson sisters for some fresh hell-raising around Salem, Massachusetts.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |