Hocus Pocus

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Hocus Pocus Goofs/Mistakes

Movie Goof (continuity error): When the Witches first come back to the house and find Dani, she is holding a plastic Trick-or-Treating pumpkin. When Winifred attacks Max and Dani hits her, she has a bag with her candy in it, not a pumpkin.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Before Max leaves the house for trick or treating with Dani his father asks him what he's supposed to be and he answers a rap singer. Later when he and Dani are harassed by the thugs they ask him what his costume is supposed to be and Dani answers, "For your information he's a little leaguer!"
Movie Goof (continuity error): While in the museum, after being thrown to the floor, Max's lighter flies out of his hand and behind the desk. We don't see him pick it up, but once they're in the cemetery, he has it again.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Salem Massachusetts does not have its own bus line. The Buses that go to around Salem are buses of the MBTA (Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority) or known locally as the T.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When Max first gives Allison his number, it is on the top left corner of a piece of notebook paper, where the holes are clearly visible, once they are outside and she returns the folded up piece of paper, you can tell that his number is now on the opposite side because of how it's folded.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When the sisters have taken Dani from her home and we see her tied up, the ropes jump about between shots.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The movie takes place on Halloween, 1993. The first part of the movie shows Max at school, yet Halloween 1993 was on a Sunday.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): In earlier scenes before entering Max's house, Allison's forehead is clear. When she walks into Max's house while the Dennison's are calling for their parents, she has a smudge of dirt on her head.
Movie Goof (factual errors): The real Salem witch trials began during the first few months of 1692, and were finished by the October of that same year, though in the movie they state that the Sanderson sisters were hanged on October 31st, 1693.
Movie Goof (continuity error): In the beginning Binx mentions the witches cannot step foot in the graveyard. At the end of the movie when Winnefred and Max are struggling on her broom in the graveyard, they both fall to the ground and nothing happens to her.
Movie Goof (factual errors): New Zippo lighters don't have any lighter fluid. You have to add it yourself. Max takes one off the rack in the Sanderson house, and lights it on the spot.
Movie Goof (errors in geography): When Sarah sings her song she's in the sky above the lighthouse along the coastline of Marblehead - one town over from Salem.
Movie Goof (continuity error): After Max lights the candle, and things start to happen within the house, Dani's hat is blown off by a gust of wind. When she puts the hat back on, her hair has been blown around. When the camera cuts to her again, her hair is back in the style it had prior to her losing her hat.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): After the children take Winifred's book and are hiding in the cemetery for the first time, you can clearly see the wires holding up Mary Sanderson as she flies down on her broom towards the children.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When you first see Sarah Sanderson dancing with "master." Her skirt is down, the next time you see her. The skirt is bundled up in her hand.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Sarah Sanderson's hair changes from curly to wavy to straight throughout the movie.
Movie Goof (crew or equipment visible): After the witches are burned at the school and the kids return home they enter the dinning room. They call for their parents and if you look in the glass on the left you can see crew and the pole for the mike moving.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Billy Butcher first rises from the dead, he breaks through the earth in a rather slap-dash fashion, with little definition or savvy. Later, once the witch sisters are vanquished for all time (hopefully), he returns to his resting place - now clearly cut into the earth in a sharp, rectangular formation.
Movie Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Winnie is riding on her broom and pulls alongside Max in the driver's side as he is racing away from the Sanderson home after saving Dani, she asks for his driver's permit. As she died 300 years previously she would have no idea of drivers permits. Or even of cars.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Max sets off the sprinkler system in the Sanderson house, he stands directly below it and gets completely drenched. When he runs out of the house, his jacket is totally dry.
Movie Goof (factual errors): Before they go trick or treating, Dani tells Max that there is a full moon out. The movie is set in 1993, but the last time there was a full moon on Halloween was in 1974. The next will not occur until 2020.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): After the sisters suck the life out of Emily at the beginning of the movie, the girl in the chair moves her legs when they start to dance.
Movie Goof (continuity error): When Max first gives Allison his number the 9 is hardly legible, but once they are outside and she returns the paper the 9 is clearly printed showing that it's an obvious different sheet of paper.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): When the Winifred is looking through her spell book, you'll notice the page to the left of the potion page is the same page to the left of the "Black candle" page.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Right before the 3 witches capture Dani they hit Max with their powers and he falls onto his drums backwards and gets knocked out laying on his back. A minute later when Allison helps him up he is laying on his stomach.
Movie Goof (revealing mistake): Immediately after "regaining" their youth, when Sarah Sanderson turns around and opens her mouth wide you can see one of Sarah Jessica Parker's fillings in the left of her lower jaw.
Movie Goof (continuity error): Right after they become younger, Winnie's hair is partially covered by the hood of her shawl. In the next shot the shawl is gone completely.
Movie Goof (anachronisms): When the kids are hiding in the alley and Mary smells the scrod, she says they are good with bread crumbs and margarine. Her character, having lived 300 years ago, would not have known about margarine which was invented in 1869.