Hocus Pocus is a 1993 American comedyfantasy film directed by Kenny Ortega, and stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as a trio of witches, the Sanderson Sisters, who are inadvertently resurrected by a cynical teenager, his younger sister and his girlfriend in Salem, Massachusetts. The film received mostly negative reviews from critics during its theatrical release but has since become a cult film.