13 Things You Probably Don't Know About Hocus Pocus

When the movie was in its infancy, it was actually titled Halloween House and had Stephen Spielberg attached as director. "He loved it until he found out that Disney was already involved," Garris added during his EW interview. "At that time, Disney and Amblin were very competitive in the family-film market, so neither of them wanted to be in business with the other."