AMC Wants To Put A Spell On You: Hocus Pocus Returns To Theaters

ST. LOUIS, MO — Re-live your childhood as AMC brings Hocus Pocus back to theaters for the film's 25th anniversary. Set and filmed in Salem, Massachusetts, the site of infamous real-life witch trials in the 17th Century, the movie stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as the Sanderson sisters — three witches hanged on Halloween in 1693 for stealing children. Spoilers: they come back.

Though the film plays endlessly on television during the month of October, it was originally a flop, according to a Page Six interview with another of its stars, Vinessa Shaw. And though it has since achieved cult status — especially for 90s kids — most people have probably never seen it on the big screen. AMC wants to change that.

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The movie will play from October 26 through Halloween night. Here's a list of local theaters with showings:

• AMC CLASSIC Creve Coeur 12
• AMC DINE-IN West Olive 16
• AMC Streets of St. Charles 8
• AMC CLASSIC Chesterfield 14
• AMC Showplace Edwardsville 12

So, come little children, and AMC will take thee away, into a land of enchantment.

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