Hocus Pocus: Exploring The original Script! Part 3

The Hocus Pocus script exploration continues with part 3! The original plan was to split this script over 4 parts but there is so many treats hidden inside the pages that I can definitely see this extending into a  few more parts. 

Part 2 ended with the witches arriving at the Devils house and there is a really great scene that is missing from the film that I can't wait for you to check out during their visit to the Devil and 'Medusa's' House. 

This part also contains so many new and different scenes that I hope you will enjoy and please check back for part 4 coming next week!

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The first change from script to screen is that Mary compliments the 'Masters' home. 
Mary: "I love what you've done with it, Master"
The dog, Ralph, outfitted in devil horns, bat wings, and a pointy tail, knows the witches are the real thing and barks at them viciously.

Mary: "Look. It is Cerebus, the dog who guards the gates of hell"
Sarah: "From what?"
Devil: "Ralph, go to your bed! Stupid dog!"

We then cut to Max, Allison and Dani. They're seated in a huddle at the side of the road. Binx sits in the middle of the circle.
Max: "We're gonna need a truly outstanding strategy"
Allison: "We have no choice. We have to go to the police"
Dani: "Maybe we can get them to put the book in jail, or something"
Max: "Great idea. Where's the nearest police station?"
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Jumping back to the Devils house and in the original script after Sarah asks the Devil to dance with her the scene continues a little longer than it does in the movie. 

Devil: "Well, uh..." (Checks to make sure his wife is still out of the room) "I'd love to".

Winifred is in the kitchen checking things out and observing what she believes to be a torture chamber. As she looks around the kitchen the phone rings. I really wish this film was in the movie as it seems like so much fun. 

At first Winifred doesn't know where the noise is coming from, but, while looking around for it's source, she picks up the receiver. A WOMAN'S VOICE is heard on the phone. 

Woman: "Hello?.... Hello?"

Winifred hears the voice, but isn't sure where it's coming from.
Woman: "Who is this?"
Winifred: "I know not, who is it?"
Woman: "It's your Mother, stupid!"
Winifred: (Horrified; thinks her mother's been turned into this little plastic thing) "Mother!"
Mother: "Is 'His infernal Majesty' up to his old tricks?"
Winifred: "Yes."
Mother: "You never should have taken up with that bum"
Winifred: "But thou taught me to worship him"
Mother: "I did WHAT?"
Mother: I'm sick to death of you blaming every idiotic self-destructive choice you've made in your life on me!"

Winifred, furious, tosses the phone into the boiling pot of water... 
Winifred: "Boil, Mother, boil!"

Back in the living room Sarah is dancing with the Devil and Mary is sitting watching the TV. Instead of commercials that we see her watching in the film, she's watching the ending of The Blob and comments "They didn't have to kill it". 

Winifred leaves the kitchen and notices a picture of the Devil and his wife from their last vacation. It begins to click that this isn't the Devil and that he's actually a man in costume. 

Jumping ahead once again and the witches are now outside after being chased by Ralph. Sarah is jumping around saying Amuck over and over, although she doesn't get wacked by Winifred in the script. After she pulls a mask off one of the trick or treating children and shows Mary that they're all kids in costume she comes up with an idea...

Mary: "I must eat one right away!"
Winifred" LISTEN TO ME! (rationally) Billy is going to turn up any time with the book. Then we'll be able to do the spell on the children. In the meantime my sugar dumpling... (as if to a child) ... we have to round up all the children we can... (with purpose) Now. See how they go from house to house collecting candy? We will give them candy too..."

Mary and Winnie do a little evil laugh duo. 

Winifred: "But first, we must find ingredients"

She looks back and forth at the others, then, suddenly... 
Winifred: "Shopping spree!!"

The following scene was filmed and very tiny snippets of this can be found in original VHS and Cinema trailers for the film. How much of this part of the script was film, I have no idea but this does exist somewhere out there. 

The Sanderson Sisters approach a supermarket and react as the doors slide open like magic. Inside the supermarket it's practically empty. There is a housewife pushing a cart with a child sitting in the cart seat. They get the concept of a shopping cart and within minutes Mary is pushing a cart down the aisles, with Sarah in the child seat. Winnie is exploring the supermarket on her own. 

Mary takes a sniff of a bottle labelled 'Witch Hazel' and tries it, while Sarah is pulling products off the shelves that she likes the look of (just like a child does). 

Sarah: "A marketing we will go... A marketing we will go..."

Mary now spots a shelf filled with canned baby food that all have pictures of babies on them.

Mary: "Ummm, canned babies"

She checks to see if Winifred is watching her and then stocks up on the cans. The housewife with her child pass. Mary smiles at the woman and her baby. The woman looks at Mary and Sarah with a puzzled look. The housewife then stops, takes a box of formula from the shelf and turns to find her cart swapped with Mary's cart. Sarah is still sitting in the seat as Mary runs down the aisle with the housewifes cart and baby. 

The Mother: "HEY"
Mary: "So sorry. Wrong basket"

The woman takes the cart and walks off with her baby once more. A hand reaches out and twists the lobe of Mary's ear. It's Winifred.

Winifred: "Stop dawdling. Find the ingredients"

Winifred then watches Mary as she grabs the required ingredients from the shelves. As Mary continues to shop, Winifred spots a black bowled Weber barbecue grill and it's on sale. The manager announces the store is closing in 5 minutes and the witches head to the checkout. 

The clerk is unphased by their appearance. 
Clerk: "Ah ladies, will that be cash, check or charge?"
They look at each other and then....
Winifred: "CHAAARGE!!!"

All three of them run out of the supermarket with all products in hand. Outside they light the barbecue up and are throwing the ingredients into it. Blobs sizzle and form into Candy Crows as they do so. 

We cut to Max, Dani, Allison and Binx once more. They're moving down the street, careful to stay out of the moonlight and streetlights and watching the sky for witches. Max tells Dani to stay out of the light and then Dani tells them to all look. Across the street is a cop. After they explain the situation to the cop he makes a strange movement in the air with his hands.

Cop: "Hamma dooma damma dooma damma dinga damma dooma.... That's police magic. You are now protected from witches for the next twenty-four hours."

He then continues with the "I put my life on the line" scene and we're jumping forward to another filmed but unreleased scene.... after the kids run from the fake cop they make their way to a pumpkin patch. 

The lot has only a few pumpkins left and in the middle of the yard is a large canvas tent. They all take refuge inside. Dani is hysterical and in tears.

Dani: "I wanna go home! I want Mom and Dad!"
Max and Allison swap a look. They have a problem. Max crouches down next to Dani.
Max: "Dani --"
Dani: "Leave me alone!"
Max: "Hey, truce, okay?"
She is silent. 
Max: "Dani this is serious"
Dani: "I noticed, Max!"
Max: "We have to be brave now. We have to be tough. Like the night Gramma got sick. Remember?"
Dani nods.
Max: "You were real tough that night. Everybody was real proud of you. Can you do it again?"
Dani: "Maybe... but.... I had my doll that night"
Binx slinks up alongside her.
Binx: "Tonight, you have me".

Dani then pets Binx.
Binx: "Oh, that feels good... now do my other ear... Yes... Oh, yes... now my tummy....yes..." 
Dani: "I've always wanted a kitty"

Max and Allison now looking outside the tenT notice two friends nearby. 
Allison: "Hey, Guys!"
They are sucking greedily on candies.
Allison: "Cindy, Donna, am I glad to see you"

But the girls hardly notice them, and don't even stop while they talk. They seem almost drugged.
Cindy: "Oh, hi, Allison"
Donna: "Try this candy"
Cindy & Donna: "It's really great"

They drop the candy as they walk on. The candy falls to the ground, where the kids and Binx examine it... they're Candy Crows.
​Binx: "It's the same candy they gave my sister, the night they stole her life"

We now cut to the witches. All three of them are surrounded by greedy children reaching out for more Candy Crows. 
Sarah: "Trick or Treat! Trick or Treat!"
Kids: "Gimme some... I want some!"
Winifred: "Stop pawing me"
Mary: "Remember to share with they friends"
Kid (to winifred): "You're ugly"
Winifred: "And you should've been drowned at birth"
She shoves a piece in his mouth. There's rapid shots of the kids eating the candy as the kids and Binx watch on the hillside above. 

Dani: "They're going to steal their lives"
Max: "Not if we can help it"

Billy appears behind them which causes them all to scream. Winifred hears this and looks up to see them all. They make their way to the top of the hillside as the children run away. 
Winifred to Billy: "Good going! You found the children!"
Billy tries to smile. 
Winifred: "And tell me, do they still have my dear, devoted, darling book with them? Do they? Do they?"
Billy nods.
Winifred: "Oh, how marvelous! (ecstatic) I'm in hell!"
Winifred then stops and looks him up and down.
Winifred: 'Oh, send him away. He smells like vomit"
Billy groans; he is crestfallen, and shuffles away. 
Sarah (feeling sorry): "Billy --"
Winifred: "Find them, Mary!"
Mary: " I always get my child"
Winifred: "Stop bragging. Go! Go!"

Mary puts her nose to the ground, picking up the kids' scent and following it like a bloodhound. 

We then cut to the town hall... which we'll dive into in Part 4 next week. 

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