35mm Disney classic HOCUS POCUS (w/ daytime Halloween Festival!)

Part of our 35mm Halloween-o-thon 2026 series

Saturday, October 31, 2026

LOCATION: The Los Angeles Theater, 615 S Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90014

SPECIAL NOTE: Our Halloween-o-thon will run all day at the 1931 Los Angeles Theatre movie palace, one of the crown jewel opera house cinemas in all of Los Angeles (with its very own ghost stories!).

Food trucks and food court open all day, full bar open all night for our evening Horror block and afterparty - pay as you go, so bring a card.

The 35mm print is confirmed. Please note though if we have any issues with film projection, we always reserve the right to switch to a digital presentation. The show must go on.

10a HOCUS POCUS (1993, dir by Kenny Ortega, w/ Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Disney Pictures, 96mns, USA, 35mm)

1145a-115p Daytime Halloween Festival — costume parade, family photo booth, food trucks + downstairs food court, ice cream truck, and spooky characters roaming the theater

115p GHOSTBUTERS (1984, dir by Ivan Reitman, w/ Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson, Columbia, 105mns, USA, 35mm)

You can get tickets to any individual movie (and add the Afterparty a la carte) or get the All-Day pass (all movies, with afterparty, best deal).

Please note that while we are working to screen these movies on 35mm prints if possible, if we have any issues, we will have DCP/digital back ups. The show must go on!

10a HOCUS POCUS (1993, dir by Kenny Ortega, w/ Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Disney Pictures, 96mns, USA, 35mm)

Few movies have had the meteoric cult favorite rise from nearly forgotten 1990’s Disney programmer to beloved cult classic of almost every age and demographic. How did Disney’s 1993 Hocus Pocus about the comically self-absorbed yet inept 17th century witches-the Sanderson Sisters (played with campy relish by Midler, Najimy, Parker) become such a beloved Halloween classic? Well, its constant replaying on the Disney Channel may have had something to do with it.

But whatever the reasons, the Sanderson sisters and their antics are now beloved by families, teens, adults everyone.

The story finds the Sanderson sisters meeting a nasty end at the hands of angry villagers of 17th century Salemn only to be accidentally re-summoned in the 1990’s on Halloween night is both warm-hearted and subversive. Funny and spooky to whole host of children.

Maybe you grew up with this movie and now want to introduce your own children to the Halloween fun, jokes, and all around fun vibes of Hocus Pocus.

SPECIAL NOTE: We’ll follow the movie with a Daytime Halloween Festival — a full hour of Halloween fun after the film. Kids' Halloween costume parade. Family photo booth. Food trucks + a downstairs food court. An ice cream truck. Friendly, spooky characters roaming the theater for photo ops. Costumes encouraged — all ages welcome. All in one of the most beautiful, atmospheric movie theaters in all of Los Angeles!

Full bar, food trucks, and the food court open all night — pay as you go, so bring a card.