Thackery Binx's House

Thackery Binx’s House (Pioneer Village/Forest River Park) – 310 West Avenue. This living history museum that charges admission, and is open seasonally, was used in the opening scene of the movie for the colonial 1600s houses. The aerial shots in the beginning of the movie were of another living history museum, Plimoth Patuxet Museums located in Plymouth, MA. Speaking of Binx, six real black cats and some movie magic were used to create the loveable feline. And a black cat was essential to the movie’s development, as film producer David Kirschner said he came up with the idea for the film when he and his young daughter were sitting outside, and his neighbor's black cat strayed by. Kirschner invented a story of how the cat was once a boy who was changed into a feline three hundred years ago by three witches.