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Billy Butcherson Is Back in ‘Hocus Pocus 2’ and Doug Jones Shares First Look at His Return

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Filming on the Disney+ sequel Hocus Pocus 2 has now officially wrapped, and today Doug Jones provides us with our first look at the return of his character Billy Butcherson.

Directed by Anne Fletcher, Hocus Pocus 2 comes to Disney+ in October 2022. You can check out the social media post from Jones below, showing off Billy 30 years later!

The film is being billed as “the spooky sequel to the 1993 Halloween classic,” with Bette MidlerSarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy all back as the beloved Sanderson Sisters.

“It’s been 29 years since someone lit the Black Flame Candle and resurrected the 17th-century sisters who were executed for practicing witchcraft, and they are looking for revenge. Now it is up to three high-school students to figure out how to stop the ravenous witches from wreaking a new kind of havoc on Salem before midnight on All Hallow’s Eve.”

Joining them are Whitney Peak (“Gossip Girl,” “Molly’s Game”) as Becca, Lilia Buckingham (“Dirt,” “Crown Lake”) as Cassie, and Belissa Escobedo (“American Horror Stories,” “The Baker and the Beauty”) as Izzy, three young women in present-day Salem who incite the wrath of the three witches. Sam Richardson (Werewolves Within) will also star. “Arrested Development” favorite Tony Hale and “Ted Lasso” actress Hannah Waddingham have also both landed roles with Froy Gutierrez, Juju Brener, Taylor Paige Henderson, and Nina Kitchen.

The Kenny Ortega-directed 1993 movie starred Omri Katz as a curious youngster who moves to Salem, Massachusetts, where he struggles to fit in before awakening a trio of diabolical witches (played by Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy) that were executed in the 17th century. The film also starred Thora Birch, who may be back for the sequel as well.

Jen D’Angelo (“Workaholics”) wrote the sequel’s script. Below, you can revisit the 1993 original with our very own Horror Queers podcast featuring special guest Laura Di Girolamo.

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Monster Mash’ Trailer – Michael Madsen Assembles His Own Monster Squad in New Indie Horror Movie

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Universal’s “Dark Universe” may have gone up in flames right out of the gate, but that’s not stopping other studios from (unofficially) making their own Universal Monsters mashups.

All the classic monsters unite to brawl in The Asylum’s Monster Mash, which is coming to select theaters as well as VOD outlets at home on the same day, Friday, March 29, 2024.

Who brings them all together, you ask? Michael Madsen, of course!

In Monster Mash, “A dying Dr. Frankenstein is determined to meld the world’s strongest monsters into a singular, unstoppable creation. Now the monsters—including Dracula, Werewolf, and the Invisible Man—must work together to stop him before it’s too late.”

The film will be opening theatrically in the following locations:

  • Laemmle – Glendale, California
  • Hickory Ridge Cinemas – Brunswick, Ohio
  • Trylon Cinema – Minneapolis, Minnesota
  • O Cinema – South Beach, Miami, Florida
  • Aurora Cineplex – Roswell, Georgia

Ethan Daniel Corbett and Emma Reinagel also star in The Asylum’s Monster Mash.

The film is written and directed by Jose Prendes (The Exorcists).

You can watch the Monster Mash trailer below. Monster Squad this is not, to say the least, but the low budget monster mashup does look like it could at least deliver a good time. Michael Madsen chewing the scenery as Victor Frankenstein while the Dracula, The Invisible Man and a computer-generated Wolfman wreak havoc? We’ve been promised worse times than that!

“The Invisible Man… I just need a piece of his skin,” Madsen says at one point in the trailer. And it was in that moment that our weekend plans were decided. Find the film on VOD Friday.

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