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INTRADA Announces:
HOCUS POCUS
Music Composed and Conducted by JOHN DEBNEY
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 254
The 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus has become in the intervening years the quintessential Halloween film. The film opens with a young girl abducted by the town’s notorious sororal coven. The girl’s older brother, Thackery, is too late to stop the witches from absorbing her youthful life force. The angry townspeople corner and hang the Sandersons, but not before the witches turn Thackery into a black cat, cursed with immortality. 300 years later the town is still obsessed with Halloween and the Sandersons, but newcomer Max (Omri Katz)is unimpressed. On Halloween night he and his sister Dani (Thora Birch) link up with his new crush, Allison (Vinessa Shaw), and unwittingly unleash the Sandersons into the 20th century.
Composer James Horner was originally hired to score Hocus Pocus, writing “Garden of Magic” before production, since Sarah Jessica Parker needed to sing it on camera, but Horner couldn’t stay on to write the whole score. The sessions at Todd-AO studios were already booked, and composer John Debney had a mere two weeks to write the entire score before taking the podium. He conducted a 92-piece orchestra and a female choir during the first week of June 1993. The result is a colorful romp that soundtrack collectors have been seeking for 20 years. For the witches, Debney knew it had to be a triplet feeling..."I guess because I was influenced by Witches of Eastwick. I wanted it to be in a minor key, and I knew it would be fun to be a little Elfmanesque. ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ is in there too..." He also wrote a budding love theme for Max and Allison and a brother/sister theme.
For this release, Intrada was given access to the original 48-track digital scoring session elements vaulted at the Disney studios.
01. Main Title 1:29 Hear This Track
02. Garden Of Magic/Thackery Follows Emily 2:25
03. Witches' Lair 5:41
04. To The Stake 0:25
05. Death To The Witches 1:10
06. Meeting Allison 2:02 Hear This Track
07. Max Loses Shoes 0:35
08. Hallowe'en 1:10
09. Max And Dani 1:20
10. Divertimento #17 In D, K. 334 (Mozart) 3:42
11. To The Witches' House We Go 2:23
12. The Black Candle 2:22
13. Witches On A Rampage 4:24 Hear This Track
14. Graveyard Attack 3:54 Hear This Track
15. The Calming Circle 3:00
16. The Master 0:15
17. Fingers 1:08
18. Springing The Trap 4:37
19. Winnie's Lament 3:05
20. Witches Flight 3:15 Hear This Track
21. Sarah's Theme 2:08 Hear This Track
22. Max Fools The Witches 2:57
23. Winnie Catches Up 0:47
24. Billy Speaks 1:30
25. Witches Capture Dani 4:52 Hear This Track
26. Witches Demise/Resurrection 4:50 Hear This Track
27. End Credits 3:10 Hear This Track
The Extras
28. Witches' Lair Pt. 3 (Original Version) 0:29
29. Witches Take Dani (Alternate) 1:33
30. Winnie Catches Up (Alternate) 0:37
31. String Tremolo 0:19
32. End Credits (Alternate) 1:50
INTRADA Special Collection Vol. 254
Retail Price: $19.99
Available Now
For track listing and sound samples, please visit
http://store.intrada.com/s.nl/it.A/id.8274/.f [available at 4 pacific]
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Hmmmed & hawed for a time, then ordered this - don't remember the music now, but remember loving the score when watching the film & looking for the album/cd. Only took a few decades...
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From the Intrada message board:
Aside from not having the I Put A Spell You song, I would have liked to have seen an instrumental version of Come Little Children/Garden of Magic/Sarah's Theme. I think there are a few other alternates also left off, but still this is a great presentation great to finally have!
This shows you really should WAIT until you get the disc. There is an instrumental version of Sarah's theme, scored beautifully for solo piano plus orchestra. It plays early on the album. Parker sang merely a distant snippet for this sequence and a fuller version later in the picture. So we included her full length version, of course, and placed the special orchestral version earlier on the disc. And, sorry, but there are NO other alternates. We included everything Debney scored and everything that appeared on the 48-track session masters, including the alternates.
--Doug
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The 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus has become in the intervening years the quintessential Halloween film.
Really?
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The 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus has become in the intervening years the quintessential Halloween film.
Really?
Perhaps "the quintessential Halloween comedy" rings a bit more true-ish?
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Or replace "the" with "a"
Anyways this one has been a long time coming. Placed my order so should be here in time for the weekend. Thanks Intrada
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The 1993 Disney film Hocus Pocus has become in the intervening years the quintessential Halloween film.
Really?
Perhaps "the quintessential Halloween comedy" rings a bit more true-ish?
"-ish" being the operative word.
I'm not trying to be unfair (or pedantic) about it, but I don't understand the seemingly collective push to paint this as a perennial classic. It's a perfectly pleasant movie, but that's all. Maybe I'm in the minority.
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I'm witchoo, Mike!
EDIT: Whoa, I didn't even see what I did there until after I posted it! #accidentalgenius
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I saw this movie on its release, and don't remember much about it. But I always remembered how much I liked the music in it, so I'm really excited about this release!
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Excellent release! Beautiful score and great themes. I'm glad to see it get a release.
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According to Roger Feigelson on the Intrada message board the choir was mixed down a bit on the request of John Debney.
Debney had a very specific idea in how he wanted the chorus to be mixed in. We provided a mix with it at a higher level, but his vision was to have it as a color of the orchestra, not a soloist, so it was mixed down a bit.
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That mix of the song is messed up because it's film rip and they looped her singing verse because the 2nd verse of her vocalizing is replete with sfx.
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