Is Hocus Pocus actually good?

Hocus Pocus sits in the 61.5% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 61.5% of them.

How does Hocus Pocus compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, Hocus Pocus lands in the 60.3% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Hocus Pocus's score based on?

249 calibrated reviewers stand behind Hocus Pocus's score.

1993

global pct

61.5

Film · 1993 · Films · 1990s

Hocus Pocus

Name: Hocus Pocus
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Released: 1993

Scored from 249 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

61.5%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

60.3%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

81.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

249 calibrated reviewers

Summary

On Halloween night in Salem, a teenage boy newly arrived from Los Angeles accidentally resurrects three wicked witch sisters who were executed three centuries earlier. With his little sister, a local girl, and an immortal talking black cat, he must stop the sisters from completing a spell that would let them stay alive and prey on the town's children before sunrise.

Hocus Pocus is a 1993 comedy, family and fantasy film. Its comedy subtype is Goofy.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,910 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1990s films — 4,082 of them. 249 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 257 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.