10 Things You Didn't Know About Hocus Pocus
4. Some Props And Sets Made It Into Other Movies/Television Shows
If some of the movies set pieces and items look familiar, it might be because a lot of them were re-used for other film sets.
Thackery Binx is the same cat from Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Within Hocus Pocus, some of his movement were of real life black cats whilst the remainder of it was done animatronically. Within Sabrina, her cat was named Salem, named after the Massachusetts witch trials. He had the backstory of being a warlock who was transformed into a cat by the Witches' council, much like how Thackery was transformed in Salem by the Sanderson sisters.
It's not just Binx the cat. The fountain which can be seen as Max and his friends celebrate after burning the witches is the same one in the opening credits of Friends. Also, one of the houses seen in the neighbourhood would be used as Thora Birch's home in her film role in American Beauty (1999).