How exactly did the witches begin to brew the potion at all? Their home has been turned into a museum for centuries and surely any remnants of dead bodies (dead man's toe and oil of boils) were done away with centuries ago. How could the witches have acquired such ingredients in the time between kidnapping Danny and Sarah returning from using her magic song? We can see the potion is in its final stage, so it seems they either had the ingredients on hand (doubtful) or killed a few people on the way.
What makes it even more unlikely that they'd have the ingredients on hand is that Binx overheard them listing some of those ingredients before he was transformed. You'd think that, even if his cat body wasn't dexterous enough to steal the candle (why didn't he?), he'd have at least taken pains to topple, destroy, scatter, or even piss on everything else the witches might be able to make use of, if and when they did return.
The book at least was enchanted so that it couldn't be burned or destroyed (and therefore wouldn't decay). Maybe the sisters cast spells on their other ingredients so they wouldn't decay? A dead man's toe isn't something you can stock for a long time normally, what with how quickly flesh decays.
As for Binx not destroying the candle, considering the rules of the time, it seems likely he was a virgin himself, which would limit his available methods of destroying the candle without risking triggering the curse, so he probably decided it was easier to leave the candle in one place where he could keep an eye on it.
Regarding the ingredients, an unspecified amount of time passed between the Sandersons abducting Dani and them preparing to give her the potion, so it's possible they spent that time collecting the ingredients once they had the book back; raiding a morgue for the dead man's toe, break into a market for the herbs, etc.
There's a dropped subplot where the witches were candy makers. They gave candy crows to children so there's a deleted scene (missing from anything but 1990s video cassettes of the movie) where the witches go to a store to get items including a BBQ. This also explains why Dani, Max and Allison don't fall for Sarah's song.
Why did Disney allow so much fetish material in this movie? Sarah's obvious boob window on the front of her dress (and her obsession with 'playing with' every male character in the movie)? In the scene where Max is humiliated by little Dani's statements, one being, "Max really likes your yabos. In fact, he loves them." -shrug- It doesn't seem completely Disney to me, but then again, there are those YouTube subliminal messages.
"WHOOOAA!! SPEED BUMP!!" (The Nostalgia Chick makes the funniest shocked face ever)
Well, most of the sexual references will go right over a child's head. Most children would probably just assume that all Sarah would want to do is kiss at most. Some children know what boobs are as well, so they'd probably just take that as an innocent joke.
Have you seen other 90s Disney films? Ariel, Jasmine and Pocahontas were incredibly sexualised. We have a trope called Parent Service - which is about Fanservice in family films specifically for the parents who'd be taking their kids to see them.
It might be just me, but I can't seem to wrap my mind around the fact that there were only two scenes where the witches showed their unfamiliarity with the modern world - the black river, the fire truck scare, the television in the devil's house, OMGWTF BURNING RAIN OF DEATH!!! Then suddenly they're going up to sing their Villain Song with the microphones and other new stuff, and somehow they know how to harmonize and sing pop style. They aren't scared of the vacuum cleaner. Then Winnie yells at Max during one of the many Chase Scenes, "Pull over, let me see your driver's license." What? Why would they know how to deal with all of this when they've only been alive for about three hours?
Rule of Funny for most of it, but always figured that the singing was part of their magic powers, i.e. "In exchange for eternal service to Satan, the Dark Lord will grant you the magical ability to sing mind-controlling songs that are pleasing to the listeners."
Justified in that Sarah's special power was an enchanting song so it IS a valid magical ability.
They also sing at the beginning of the movie before being hanged (but the townspeople close their ears and fight it off.)
Just before getting up and singing, Winnie did appear to be watching the band rather intently. It's possible that she caught on very quickly and the others followed her lead. As for the other parts, they probably overheard or learned bits and pieces of modern culture (for example, Winnie only called Max "dude" after they kept the two idiots in cages, so I assumed she learned it from them).
It's pretty safe to assume, then, that Winnie is just really intelligent and therefore able to comprehend even the strangest things pretty quickly. Note that she, of course, was the first one to realize that the 'burning rain of death' was merely water.
WMG: They could only keep track of bits of modern culture that happened within their home. Since it became a museum it hardly would have been packed with all sorts of movies, but overhearing the janitor's walkman and picking up some songs and bits of lingo wouldn't have been out of the question. It would also explain Winifred taunting Max with "It's just a bunch of hocus pocus!"
Also, keep in mind that they spent some time riding a bus, with a bus driver who explained a little about what said the vehicle was and even let Sarah try to drive it. They could easily have been repeating something they heard from him. The guy seemed like the kind who'd sarcastically shout something like that at another driver.
Why did Thackery die for good when the witches died the second time? He was cursed to live forever with his guilt. Then the witches were killed for real, with the possibility of coming back, but still genuinely dead. A spell that is supposed to last forever but is broken when the caster dies doesn't make sense. Sure, the sisters were trying to live forever but either the spell should have lasted forever, or at least until something broke it specifically, or it should have been broken the first time they died.
The sisters weren't truly dead the first time, since there was the candle that could bring them back. The second time they came back, that would be their only chance if they did not get the potion (which they never did get). Since the second time they were really and truly dead with no escape clause, presumably, their spell on Binks was destroyed as well. Since the spell placed on the party-goers also seemed to have only worn off after the witches died, it seems that this is the case.
The curse was so he would live forever with his guilt, so if he didn't feel guilty anymore, the spell would be broken. Saving Dani and finally defeating the witches allowed him to overcome that.
And note how he doesn't actually die when the witches do. He's already near death when Winifred throws him against the tombstone. So maybe the pep talk he got from Max allowed him to alleviate his guilt, as well as protecting another young girl from the witches; meaning this time he would die for real - and had he not been fatally injured, presumably he'd still be alive when the sisters turned to dust but could eventually die for good.
What's with all the "virgin this" and "virgin that" in this movie? Yeah, it's a plot point, but the audience didn't need to know it every two seconds. And speaking of audience, this was shown on the 1990s Disney channel! Did YOU know what a virgin was when you were 9?
No, which confused the crap out of me at that age.
Otoh, I did, so your mileage knowledge may vary on that?
Me neither. The way they said it, it sounded like some kind of condition or religious denomination.
I got something completely different from Dani calling him a virgin all the time, it just seemed like something to antagonize her brother with, considering his consistent frustration with it. She probably doesn't even know what it means, just that it annoys her brother to be called that, so she calls him a virgin to get his goat. I mean, I call my little brother Spawn all the time, and even though it is true, him being a spawn of my mother, it still drives him crazy. Just siblings being siblings.
She's not the only one. Binx makes fun of him for it, the fake cop has fun with him with it...and really, I wouldn't be too sure Dani doesn't know what it means. She's not that young.
Considering that Binx came from a puritan society where, considering that he seemed to be unmarried (as he was still living with his family, and while girls of that period were often married off as young as 13 it was generally to older men rather than boys of their age group) either, and considering that after his transformation it would have been really difficult (anatomically speaking) with a humanandnot any betterwith a cat... well, he's probably not one to talk, himself.
Product Placement. After Capcom's deal to make 16-bit video game adaptations of Disney films ran out, Virgin had it next.
Seriously though, he's 15. If he wasn't a virgin someone would be going to jail.
Unless he had sex with another 15-year-old person, as most normal people do. Who wrote this headscratcher? Doug Walker? When I saw the movie as a young teen I did get the joke, we all were assuming that virgin meant female, but it applies to him too, he is ashamed of that as, whether we like it or not, most teen boys of that age want not to be virgins and many, especially someone good looking like he, are not. Teens do have sex before 18 even when it's currently become an issue among socially conservative people, but in the 90s it wasn’t such a scandal and many movies and TV series implied or openly established that teens were sexually active.
It doesn't change the fact that even for a dead joke it's baffling. Virginity here is treated like something you're supposed to be ashamed of, and you need to get rid of it asap. Max is still developing, and thus, hasn't had the time required to identify his sexual orientation yet. Most functional 15-year-olds would generally be more concerned with their studies, chores, and recreational time with friends... than getting laid. And just to confound things further, the cast demands he becomes mature enough to have sex - yet still should go out trick-or-treating for Halloween like a little child! Just... give the kid a break movie!
Have you ever MET a teenager?! Teen boys of Max's age are OBSESSED with sex, they may still be developing but they're extremely horny, he's clearly attracted to women or at least Allison so his labels have nothing to do with him being a virgin, and 15/16-year olds absolutely are concerned with sex over studies, chores, and hanging out with friends.
Are you kidding? Most boys in my high school would never have admitted to being virgins (or having a sexual orientation other than straight) even if they probably were, and certainly weren't interested in chores or studies so much as in pretending to be macho thugs. Toxic masculinity was the law of the land. And I lived in a "good neighborhood" in Western New York.
This tends to be overblown. It's only ever said to mock Max by Dani first after he lit the candle (and the emphasis is on his idiocy for lighting it) and then to the guy dressed as the cop - and Dani was just saying the requirements for lighting the candle (virgin lights it on a full moon on Halloween night) and that Max fills that requirement. The guy himself was just being a dick, Trolling the kids. I don't believe it's mentioned again until the end as a final Brick Joke ("I had to wait three hundred years for a virgin to light a candle"). There's not any point in the film where Max's lack of sex life is mocked, apart from the Jerkass who trolled the kids in other ways too.
And if the children come from a particularly Christian area, they're bound to have been raised hearing about the Virgin Mary - so it's not as though the concept of virginity is something a child will be completely unfamiliar with.
And the 90s were a different time. The AIDS epidemic had led to a renewed focus on sex education out of necessity. See the film Kids, in which a twelve-year-old loses her virginity in the opening scene, and Poison Ivy, where two teenage girls have to buy a condom for their homework. The reasoning behind this was because AIDS was a death sentence back then, and it spread through unprotected sex, so children as young as eleven and twelve had to be educated about condom use - because there was a very real possibility that they could end up with a fatal STD if they weren't careful. So this was all born out of a huge Moral Panic that meant 90s kids and teens knew a lot more about sex or were familiar with the concept of it because they had to out of necessity. Especially girls, because they tended to be affected by AIDS worse than boys. To a 90s audience, it would be seen as a harmless joke, because fifteen-year-olds having sex was part of the zeitgeist - and it was not until The New '10s that the world started examining its attitude to how teens could be sexualized in the media.
How the hell did they survive the oven? It's just a cop-out.
They burn up in the fire, the oven timer shuts it off, and they're magically revived. The Black Flame Candle spell brought them back and would keep them alive until they used the life-sucking potion to give themselves non-spell-bound life or the light of dawn, whichever came first. The characters assumed fire would work because of the stereotype. Binx doesn't think they're dead and he's more in the know about magic stuff than they are.
The magic of the candle brings them back to that Halloween night and for then they are invincible - which is why they don't die in the fire.
Cop-out? It's set up in the very premise of their resurrection that they can't die until dawn.
Also, with sisters' fascination with everything infernal it kind of makes sense that hellish fire does not kill them.
Billy is a frustrating character. How is he so well-preserved? It would be highly unusual for a corpse to be that intact a few months after his death, let alone a few centuries. And how can he reattach his limbs so easily? If Winnie's spell gave him his healing and preservation, why didn't she just restore him to a fully living state? He'd be a lot more competent that way.
The spell might've restored enough of his body to allow him to function without resurrecting him completely.
Or the witches mummified or otherwise preserved him somehow when they tortured him and killed him. A Wizard Did It is a fairly plausible explanation for this movie.
As to why Winnie didn't bring him back: Selfish Evil. Or to put it in more detail, from what she did to Billy because he cheated on her, and how she treats him throughout the movie, it's pretty clear she never really loved him (if she even can love anyone), that he was just a pawn to her, and she only killed him because of his disloyalty. She wasn't interested in fully bringing him back because that would require her to care about him. And as for him being more useful if fully restored, this wouldn't be the first time she carried the Villain Ball.
How about the point at which Winifred drops the vial of potion - and Max runs forward to catch it? If he had just let it fall, it would have spilled or broken, and the movie would have been effectively over. I understand why the writers wrote it that way - it would be anticlimactic for the witches to just spend the next ten minutes waiting around to die - but, from a character standpoint, it makes absolutely no sense.
Either it was just Max's reflexes, or he realized that if anything bad happened to the potion the witches would be very displeased and would most likely do something awful to him and his friends. Or maybe he intended to use the vial as a bargaining chip - which, of course, is exactly what he winds up doing.
As I recall, Winifred had Dani. Had the potion smashed Dani would have been the one to face her wrath, so instead, he forced Winifred to switch her attention from Dani to himself. Either he'd hold her off long enough for the sun to kill her or he'd die, either way he's saved his sister.
He also might want to bargain with Winifred; he'll hand the potion over if she lets Dani go free.
Which is exactly what he tries doing; he tells Winifred to let Dani go or he'll smash it, and she says that if he smashes it, she'll kill her, which forces Max into the position of drinking the potion so Winifred leaves Dani and goes for him.
At the beginning after Thackery is turned into a cat he tries to get his dad's attention, obviously hoping he'll somehow realize what happened, but to get his attention he just meows and scratches at his shoe. In the rest of the movie he can talk, why didn't he say something there?
Given the location and period, it was more likely that he'd think Binx was a familiar (a demon in the shape of an animal that serves witches) using Satanic powers to imitate his son's voice.
That early after his transformation, Binx probably hadn't figured out how to talk like a cat yet. He had plenty of time to learn while waiting for the witches to revive him.
I thought he was unable to talk while the witches were dead. Even though he was able to talk when they thought the witches were dead without questioning whether the witches had truly died.
Word of God is that he couldn't talk until the candle was lit. Presumably, if he could, he would have, to stop Max from lighting it.
Binx was with the main characters when they went to the guy they thought was a cop and later their parents, none of whom believed them about the witches coming back to life, so why didn't Binx tell them it was true? I'm sure that the adults would believe them if the cat started talking to them, but Binx just stays silent around them.
He'd tried that already with his father three hundred years ago. If he ever tried to talk to anyone during those three hundred years (if he even could talk during that time), they probably just assumed he was a demon or devil, or they were hearing things, or it was a ventriloquist trick. After enough time trying and failing, maybe he just gave up. It's also possible the spell made it so only kids could hear him.
Well he didn't tell his father because he couldn't talk until the candle was lit in 1993. And with the guy dressed as the cop, he started ordering them away before they could think of it. They're not used to having a talking cat around, so it's understandable they don't immediately think of using that angle.
Note that it wouldn't necessarily have change anything: the parents would probably still have come under Winnie's spell, and the "policeman" would obviously not have helped the kids anyway.
When Sarah sings her child-summoning spell, it's after 5 in the morning. The children the sisters were targetting are young enough that they must have finished trick-or-treating many hours before. Why are all the hypnotized kids still in costumes?
Kids love wearing costumes, so it's logical to assume that they went to bed still wearing their costumes.
Fridge brilliance if you consider the fact that all their parents are still at the party under Winnie's spell. Most of the parents probably expected to be home hours ago so they may not have gotten anyone to watch the kids. At that age, I would have probably stayed up and waited for my parents... especially if it was Halloween and I was hopped up on candy.
If you watch the scene, not all the children are wearing costumes. Some are wearing dressing gowns and pajamas. So it's safe to say that some were in bed and some were still up, wearing the costumes.
If they had enough potion for a child and we saw with Thacker's sister Emily that they can survive off one child why didn't they use what was left on one of the kids walking to their house, aside from the "it's Disney" excuse, please.
The witches in general and Winifred, in particular, are kind of vindictive and after an entire day of fighting with these damn meddling kids, it probably didn't occur to her that any old kid would do fine. I guess you could chalk it up to Idiot Ball or Villain Ball either will do for why they didn't take a random kid initially and get their revenge later. Or just leave town and go to one of the millions of cities around the globe where people don't even believe in witches anymore.
Sarah and Mary point that out to her, but she states that she wants Dani since the kid called her ugly.
Since Billy was never in league with Winifred and her sisters, why did he spend the entire night following after Max and the others? Also, why did he grab Max when the main cast returned to the graveyard in the climax?
He was trying to help them, but they kept running because he was a zombie, and his mouth was sewn shut so he couldn't just shout to them. He only grabs Max when he holds up a knife, and then uses it to free his lips.
Winifred can summon lightning from her fingertips, she and her sisters can hypnotize people with their voices, transform people into animals, curse them with diseases and have the power of flight. So how did the Salem townsfolk capture and execute them so fast? And why didn't they try it before? Even if they didn't think they were witches (as opposed to the movie's implication that it was common knowledge), Winifred poisoned her lover Billy Butcherson and the whole town seemed to know about it. A lot of arguments could be made to answer questions like this, but the film doesn't seem particularly bothered to.
The townsfolk could have been ignorant of the sister's activities. The three of them didn't seem particularly well known. As for how they overpowered them, well, they outnumbered three women by at least thirty and had flaming torches with them. The sister's magical abilities (particularly, Winnie who shoots lightning out of her fingertips) may be extensive, but when cornered, potentially of no use.
Maybe the townsfolk actually didn't know, or if they did they had no proof of any of it; the sisters would likely not have been out and about using magic in front of people, they lived alone in an isolated cottage, and anyone who saw what they could do likely became their victims and therefore dead. What happened to Billy could just be a rumor or hearsay. But once the townspeople came and caught them red-handed with Emily's body they had all the proof they needed to hang the sisters. It's pretty likely that with strength in numbers they overpowered the sisters in the cramped confines of the cottage, and also if they stripped them of the book, this may have lessened their powers.
Or more simply, the sisters were weakened when the villagers cornered them. They had only just drained Emily to restore their youth, so maybe it takes time for their full powers to return. The magic of the Black Flame Candle brings them back at full strength and power.
The entire town surrounded the house. The sisters may be powerful, but there are only three of them. A whole mob of people could probably overpower them (considering Max, Dani, Alison, Binx and Billy did just fine on their own).
And doesn't Binx knock over the cauldron to spill most of the potion? So while they were able to drain some life from Emily to make themselves younger, it's possible they needed to use all of it on the children in Salem to get to that power level.
Max was really the first virgin to be tempted to break into a creepy, reputedly haunted building and tempt fate by lighting the candle?
Maybe the first virgin brave enough (or stupid enough) to attempt it on a Halloween evening, when the moon was full.
Full moons coinciding with Halloween are pretty rare.
The only one to break in on a full moon during Halloween and not be thwarted by Binx. He's been guarding the house on Halloween night ever since the witches died to stop people from doing exactly that.
Seeing as the moon is only full 3 days a month, that's roughly 30 times that the full moon would coincide with Halloween over 300 years. If you only count it as full when it's 'completely' full that number goes down to just 10. We also don't know how long the place has been a museum or when it was open. When it was open for business (and therefore under the watchful eye of an adult) it would have been a lot less likely for kids to mess with the candle.
Also, Winifred swoops in on the kids by taunting them with Max's earlier Ironic Echo, "It's all just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!" Then you suddenly realize Winifred wasn't Back from the Dead yet when Max said it, and couldn't have heard it.
It was Halloween, the time of the year the veil between the living and the dead is thinnest, maybe they could hear them in Hell?
Especially since he said it in the museum formerly known as their house.
How did Max's teacher know Thackery's story?
He's probably communicated with people in the past. When first turned into a cat, he tries to get his father's attention but can do nothing but meow. 300 years later he's capable of intelligent speech. Presumably, he tried to talk to people at some point and told his story. But he's also Genre Savvy enough to know that letting the world know the witches are real would be Tempting Fate, so he keeps quiet.
If you pay attention to the teacher's story, she just says that no one ever knew what happened to Thackery. So it's possible the flashback we see is what happened but not the story the teacher is telling. What is known is that Thackery went to the witches' house to rescue his sister, while his friend raised the mob. The mob finds Emily dead in the house, but no sign of her brother.
So the opening is a Third-Person Flashback, and the teacher is only telling the story that everyone in town knows, and the audience sees what actually happened.
A logical thing to assume, but recall that Allison asks the cat if he is Thackery Binx and then says "so the legends are true".
So the Sanderson house is now a museum. Given the legendary status of the sisters' story, and the locals' general love of Halloween, you'd think the museum would be, you know, open.
The sign outside says it's closed for renovations. Allison tells Dani it's closed because spooky things kept happening there, but she's probably just entertaining the little girl. Still, the place is pretty damn dusty when they get there, so it's probably been shut up for a while. And you'd think it'd be open at Halloween of all times. Halloween in Salem is tourist central.
Wasn't it fairly late when they snuck in? It was probably just after the museum's closing time.
Judging by the look of the place, it had been abandoned for years, not hours. Moreover, precisely on Halloween it would actually make sense to keep the museum open for the entire night.
During the opening, Winifred comments on another gloriously sickening morning. During their execution, it's night again, which sets that mood perfectly. Even though the townsfolk were right at their door right as the sun rose, it took them all day to get in somehow. Maybe Winifred and the others did put up an epic magical fight after all before the mob [mostly] sealed their fate. I doubt their sentencing took that long given the evidence/sister's corpse.
They likely spent the day searching for Thackery and questioning the sisters about what they've done with him. They make it clear they know something they aren't saying and they're hanged when the children's father finally loses his patience.
The witches are bound to have been questioned a lot. Or it might not have been the same day. They may have been given a trial like so many others and then executed once presumed guilty.
And they might not even have been questioned about Emily and Thackery only - who knows what else had been going on in the town... Take Billy's demise, for example...
What is the witches' goal in trying to live forever anyway? They mention a few times that they spent the intervening centuries in Hell and enjoyed themselves; Sarah seems pretty cheerful to go back when they're defeated.
If they made a Deal with the Devil for eternal life and have been in Hell, presumably when they were there at the time and said devil brought them back. They probably don't want to return as failures, because Old Scratch will subject them to some terrible punishment for failing to drain more children.
Just because they enjoyed their time in Hell doesn't mean they don't enjoy being alive much more.
At times it doesn't even seem that Winnie is interested in eternal life—she's mostly driven by a desire to be eternally young. She also has a vendetta against Salem and its populace, given that her last words before being hanged are "The lives of all the children of Salem will be MINE!" As for her sisters: Mary's slavishly devoted to Winnie and would do anything for her, plus living children are probably a lot tastier. And Sarah...well, Sarah's The Ditz and pretty much does whatever Winnie says; she's also probably on the hunt for some living men to "play with."
Perhaps they can't torment children in Hell and they want to be alive so they can do so more often. Although if you think about it, Winifred made the curse before she died - so she had no idea what Hell would be like or that she would enjoy it.
Until the sequel addresses it, perhaps the sisters don't even get to go to Hell when they turn to dust? Maybe the exchange for the spell to come back is that if they die again, it's complete Cessation of Existence with no afterlife at all.
IIRC, Winnie herself points this outcome as the one that would befall on them if they failed to suck the lifeforce of Salem's children.
Why on all the pages for this movie is Billy referred to as being Good All Along?? Isn't it far more likely (as this Troper believed since childhood) that Billy simply finally had enough of taking Winnifred's shit?
Billy never actively attacked the kids in the movie. Plus, since his lips were sewn shut, he was unable to tell the characters whose side he was on. When he cuts the threads, he hurls several insults at Winifred and tells Max he’s waited a long time to say those things. Also, if you notice when he’s brought back to life, he looks visibly annoyed to see Winifred and throws his hands at her as if to say, “I don’t have to listen to you.” She did kill him so there’s little reason for him to be loyal to her.
And it makes sense that he initially looked like he was trying to fulfill Winnie's orders: if she saw that he was actively disobeying, she might have come up with something else to get the children, whereas Billy's apparent obedience makes her think that those grounds are covered (forgive the pun) and leave the scene.
This is the biggest question of all: what made Max and the girls think that anyone would believe the Sanderson sisters were back? Like really, three kids telling adults that the legend is real and a trio of dead witches came back to life. On HALLOWEEN, for crying out loud!
Had to try something.
When Max and Dani go trick-or-treating and come across Ice, Jay and their gang, forcing Max to relinquish his candy to avoid Ice taking Dani's, why don't they resort to a better way to avoid them, like leaving through the back of the house or notifying the owners so they would shoo the vandals away? Besides, why does Max get so angry at Dani for "humiliating" him in front of the whole school? Ice and Jay don't go there, and assuming the gang members do attend the same school, they aren't all of the school's students.
Is it established that Ice and Jay don't go to school? They are definitely not stellar pupils and probably skip a lot of classes, but still they may well be schoolchildren.
When Thackery Binx is run over by the bus the Sanderson Sisters took, why do Max, Dani and Allison get so sad about his "death" (which is undone seconds later due to his immortality curse) if Binks had explicitly told them that he couldn't die? Do these three kids have very bad memories?
Shock and panic can do funny things to someone's head, so yes it's entirely possible the kids forgot because their first reaction to their pet/friend being hit by a bus was "oh no bad".
They might have initially assumed Thackery's immortality was of the "Can't die of old age" variant, but he'd still be vulnerable to injury or illness.
Assuming that the Sandersons had actually died in the school's oven and Thackery stayed with the Dennisons as their pet, how did Max and Dani plan to explain to their parents about their strange pet cat? Yeah, maybe Binks could be told to not talk in front of Mr. and Mrs. Dennison, but they would have surely noticed something weird over the years upon witnessing Thackery never aging...
Cats can live up to 20+ years and Max could have taken him with him when he moved out for college in a few years. Just pretend it's a new cat every couple decades and that you're too lazy to give them different names.
Just a minor one but if they're sisters then how come they have different hair colors (Winifred is strawberry blonde, Sarah is blonde and Mary is a brunette) wouldn't they all have the same hair colored instead of different colors I'm pretty sure hair dye didn't exist in 1693.
Different fathers.
Unlikely, as the sequel seems to imply that the three sisters share the same father.
Hair color genetics are weird. Depending on the hair colors of the parents and grandparents, all three of of those could be reasonably plausible from the same set of parents.
When they steal Emily's life force at the beginning, how come Sarah was the only one that looked like she aged considerably younger as a girl in her twenties while Winifred and Mary looked like they were in their mid-30s and 40s shouldn't they have looked younger just like Sarah
At Allison's party, Dany told her she didn't know there was a museum about them. When Allison goes to change Dany tells Max she doesn't want to go because her friends told her it was weird. Why did she tell Allison she didn't know when moments later she says she does to Max.
If she didn't want to go, she probably played dumb in hopes they wouldn't drag her to something she was unfamiliar with. Either that or her memory was only jogged after she initially said that.
Alternatively, the friends might have told her that there were weird things happening in the place where sisters used to live but not that the place had been turned into museum (which is even more plausible given that the museum was not working anyway).
Who created the black flame candle after the sisters were hanged?
They probably had that candle long before they got hung.
