{"id":22977,"date":"2022-09-30T15:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1714584"},"modified":"2022-09-30T15:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:40:21","slug":"hocus-pocus-2-ending-explained-do-the-sanderson-sisters-survive","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/hocus-pocus-2-ending-explained-do-the-sanderson-sisters-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hocus Pocus 2 ending explained: Do the Sanderson Sisters survive?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Patrick Cremona\n \t\t<\/p>

Published: Friday, 30 September 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p>

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After almost 30 years, the Sanderson Sisters are back to wreak more havoc on Salem \u2013 with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy all reprising their iconic roles in Hocus Pocus 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This time around, the trio are inadvertently brought back by teenager Becca (Whitney Peak), who lights a Black Flame candle that was gifted to her by magic shop owner Gilbert (Sam Richardson) on her 16th birthday, unaware that in doing so she is awakening the witches.<\/p>\n

And so it falls to Becca and her best friend Izzy (Belissa Escobedo) \u2013 and eventually their former pal Cassie (Lilia Buckingham) \u2013 to foil the Sandersons\u2019 wicked plans and save Salem.<\/p>\n

But do they manage to pull it off? Read on to have the Hocus Pocus 2 ending explained \u2013 with the warning that major spoilers this way come.<\/p>

Hocus Pocus 2 ending explained<\/strong><\/h2>\n

After returning to Salem, the Sandersons make it their goal to cast a spell that will allow them to make their stay beyond sunrise \u2013 which requires several key ingredients, including the head of an ex-lover and the blood of an enemy.<\/p>\n

They trick Gilbert \u2013 who it turns out had wanted to bring them back ever since spotting them on their previous visit to Salem in 1993 \u2013 into retrieving the head of Billy Butcherson (a returning Doug Jones) while they themselves set about attending the Halloween carnival.<\/p>\n

They intend to capture Mayor Jefry Traske (Tony Hale), Cassie\u2019s dad and a direct descendant of the Reverend who was the witches\u2019 nemesis in their youth, as the enemy whose blood they will use in their spell.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Jessica Parker as Sarah Sanderson, Bette Midler as Winifred Sanderson, Kathy Najimy as Mary Sanderson, and Tony Hale as Mayor Traske in Hocus Pocus 2 Matt Kennedy \/<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption> Disney<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n

Eventually, everyone convenes at the Traske house \u2013 where a Halloween party is going on \u2013 and the witches are briefly trapped in a salt circle by Becca and Izzy. However, they are able to engineer a way out of it, thanks to Mary\u2019s trusty (and upgraded) vacuum cleaner and manage to kidnap Cassie who they then take to the woods \u2013 settling for her as the enemy rather than her father.<\/p>\n

In the woods, they find Gilbert and Billy Butcherson and begin to put their spell into action \u2013 but it\u2019s not going to be so easy. Becca and Izzy have tracked them all the way and in trying to rescue Cassie, Becca realises something incredible \u2013 on the night of her 16th birthday she has gained witch powers herself!<\/p>\n

As they fight, with the young girls seeming to gain the upper hand, Winnie becomes desperate and decides to cast the ultimate power spell. But in doing so she hasn\u2019t read the small print: in order to cast this spell, it is necessary to sacrifice something you love very dearly, and so as soon as she has cast it, both Mary and Sarah disappear.<\/p>\n