Hocus Pocus

Women and girls outnumber male characters and play main roles as villains and heroes. Allison and Dani are strong and smart, fighting the witches and briefly saving Dani's brother Max. But there are slight gender clichés with the witches: They cast a spell to be "young and beautiful" and are obsessed with their looks. All characters are White except minor Black characters who briefly appear at a crowded party. There's a very quick glimpse of racist 1960s-era packaging for Cherry Clan candies, showing characters with squinty eyes wearing conical Asian hats. Fatphobic lines include a well-fed cat who's worried about becoming a "fat, useless house cat," and a teen calls his friend "oinker" for eating too much candy.

Most scares are campy, magical, and meant to be comedic, but they're realistic and could still disturb younger kids. The villains take a child's life force while she's in a trance-like state, and she quietly slumps over in a chair (implied dead). A teen is zapped with electricity and appears to pass out, then gets turned into a cat. Characters stand at the gallows with nooses around their necks -- they cheerfully joke around before dying (legs visible above toppled barrels). Teens bully younger teens and kids, stealing their shoes and Halloween candy. A corpse named Billy is reanimated and breaks out of his crypt to chase kids, getting decapitated (he isn't hurt and eventually befriends the main characters). Villains are trapped and burned inside a pottery kiln (not gory); they leave uninjured. A few gross-out scenes include a character eating spiders, a cat getting run over by a bus, and a zombie cutting his stitched mouth open with a knife. Items that play key roles are a book bound in human skin and a candle made from the fat of a hanged man.

A candle must be lit by a virgin to bring the witches back to life -- there are several mentions of "the virgin." Passing reference to an unfaithful lover. Characters flirt and nearly share a kiss. One person hugs a pillow and says "Oh, Allison, you're so soft." Innuendo when the witches tell a bus driver that they "desire children" (to kill and use for a potion) and he replies, "It might take me a couple of tries, but I don't think that'll be a problem."

A few uses of "hell" (including "go to hell") and infrequent uses of "damn," "wench," "moron," and "oh God."

References to "hash" and "smokes" by teens. An adult smokes in her home.