They’re also both connected to the original ‘Matilda’.
A particularly scary scene inScream 2follows scream queen Sarah Michelle Gellar as college student Cici Cooper.
Then, the phone rings.

Sarah Michelle Gellar played Cici Cooper in Scream 2 (1997).
Super sleuths and hardcore fans ofHocus Pocusmay have gotten a sense of deja vu during this scene.
The winding staircase Cici climbs is the same one Alison Watts (Vinessa Shaw) descends from inHocus Pocus.
It was originally owned by a Confederate generals widow.

This is why the interior easily passes for an old Salem familys home.

Cici Cooper talks to Ghostface in the Omega Beta Zeta sorority house inScream 2.

The exterior of the Omega Beta Zeta sorority house.

Alison sees Max from the top of the staircase in her home inHocus Pocus. Notice the banisters are the same as the above still fromScream 2.

The Crank House in the background of a scene fromMatilda(1996).