
A concerned Texas mother is telling other matriarchs to refrain from airing Hocus Pocus 2 in their homes, warning the movie’s evil imagery could have dark spiritual effects on unwary children.
In a message posted to Facebook, Troy mom Jamie Gooch, 33, cautioned moms to “protect your children” and beware of “what is coming through your TV screen” when it comes to the new film available on the Disney+ streaming service.
“With the release of Hocus Pocus 2 coming up I would be wrong not to sound the alarm and warn you to protect your children,” Gooch wrote, adding, “After all the whole movie is based on harvesting the purity of children’s souls so that witches may live on.”

She went on: “I’ll try to be brief. Please hear me when I tell you the truth that the Witches and Warlocks in the satanic church abuse and sacrifice children in their ‘spiritual rituals’ to gain more power in the underworld.”
“So before you hit play on the night of the premier of this movie please ask yourself if not only your mind but your children’s minds are strong enough to ward off the hypnotization and bewitching trance that will be coming through the screen to aid in the desensitization of the coming evil in this world.”
In an interview with local CBS affiliate KWTX, Gooch said she’s worried the movie, starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Bette Midler and Kathy Najimy, could unleash satanic energy in someone’s home unsuspectingly.
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“A worst case scenario is: you unleash hell on your kids and in your home,” she said. “The whole movie is based on witches harvesting children for blood sacrifices.”
She went on: “Do not watch this film… Everybody thinks it’s fake and innocent, but they could be casting any type of spell that they want to, anything could be coming through that TV screen into your home.”
The overprotective mother also told KWTX her family stopped celebrating Halloween four years ago, and that people need to be aware of the constant spiritual warfare taking place all around us.
“I think it goes further than just a movie, it goes further than Halloween, it’s a year-round thing, we constantly need to be cautious of what we’re consuming, what we’re bringing in and what we’re sending out,” said Gooch. “I believe whatever comes in our TV screens: there are things attached to that, I’ve seen for myself the things that I’ve watched with my eyes or heard over a TV screen, they’ve become manifested in real life, and then I think, ‘Oh my gosh, what did I consume?’”
Gooch shrugged off detractors of her FB post who mocked her and called her “crazy” over the outspoken opinion, saying, “If you don’t agree with me that’s fine, you need to go and follow your own heart and your own conviction, but for a Christian, we are held at a higher standard.”
Even without Gooch casting aspersions on the film, it appears audiences (as with most Hollywood reboots) are already repelled by Hocus Pocus 2. With an abysmal IMDB score of 6.2 out of 10, and a Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 54%, the film’s overall reception is a far cry from the success enjoyed by its preceding counterpart.