Hocus Pocus (1993) - 23 mistakes

Continuity: In the beginning when the boy runs after his sister to save her from the witch, it is morning and it is light outside. After he looks in the window of the Sanderson house, it is dark outside.

Other: After the Sanderson sisters are done sucking the life out of Emily Binx, they do a little dance thing after they become younger. When either Winifred or Mary swings past her, Emily's leg moves even though she's supposed to be dead.

Continuity: When the witches take Dani back to the museum, the rope they use to tie her up with changes from shot to shot. First it's up around her neck, then it's around her chest.

Continuity: There is a scene when Max and his girlfriend are awakening from their slumber to a room filled with early morning sunlight, but when they open Winifred's magic book, and the beam of light shoots from the rooftop, it is clearly still before dawn.

Other: At Allison's party after she gets Max and herself a drink. One shot shows her going to take a drink, but next shot from behind she takes up the cup again and drinks.

Factual error: The Sanderson House had been turned into a museum complete with a gift counter. The museum had been closed for years (note the dust and spider webs). The fluid in the lighter max gets would have evaporated after a few months as Zippos are not airtight like a plastic disposable lighter would be.

Factual error: Just after the towns-people have hung the three witches, you can see the executioner walking away. They outfit he is wearing is leather and has some sort of metal spikes on it. This outfit is too modern for that particular time.

Continuity: In the scene just after Max summoned the "burning rain of death," when they're in the graveyard, Max's hair and jacket are completely dry after he was soaking wet only five minutes prior.

Continuity: When Max and Allison rescue Dani from the witches' house, they turn on the car lights to trick the witches into thinking it is daylight. After they get in the car and drive off, the same light that was supposed to have come from the headlight is still shining after they have left.

Other: When the two hoodlums are hanging from the ceiling in cages, Mary Sanderson said they would be good with margarine. 300 years ago butter would be the topping of choice as margarine hadn't been invented yet.

Other: At the beginning of the film, Winifred's lipstick is small and in the middle of her upper and lower lip. However, as the scenes progress, her lipstick is bigger and she had no time to apply more lipstick- this is before the sisters are hung.

Factual error: When the witches chase Max, Dani, and Allison out of the party, they chase them into an alley. Mary tells Winifred that she smells scrod. Then says that they used margarine on it, but they didn't have margarine back then.

Continuity: When the parents are at the party, Dani & Max's mother puts her hands up while she is dancing and you can see her wedding ring. But when the camera cuts to Dani and then back to her again, the ring is gone.

Other: Winnie could not have known that Max said, "It's just a bunch of hocus pocus," considering the three of them were still dead at that time. (They couldn't have been ghosts, because she didn't know who lit the black-flame candle.)

Continuity: In the last scene in the graveyard, when Max is glowing and hanging off of Winifred's broomstick, his hands constantly go from a far to short distance away from the end of the broom between shots.

Revealing: Right before the witches burst through the roof of Max's house, after they retrieve the book, you can see the charge used to set off the explosion in the window just below where they exit.

Continuity: When the Sanderson sisters suck the life out of Emily Binx, when Winifred says her line, her hood is on, but when they dance in a circle it comes off by itself.

Continuity: In the beginning scene where they've just shown all the women "younger," there is a close-up of Winifred (Midler) with her hood on. However, in the very next shot when she turns around, her hood is all the way off.

Continuity: When the Sanderson sisters get on the bus, the headlights on the bus are on because it is dark out. They are visibly on at that point and as well as when the bus runs over Binx but, when the sisters get off of the bus, the lights are not on (it is still dark out and it is only a few minutes later). If the bus was merely letting them off (which it was, it drove away a few seconds later), why were the lights turned off?

Other: When Mary goes to save Winifred, there is no cord coming from the Hoover. However, next scene shows Dani, Allison and Billy grab a medium sized cord. Next scene then shows the cord much much much bigger.