12/49
I went to Juilliard
Tale
The spirits of a deceased couple are haunted by an insufferable family who have moved into their home and hire an evil spirit to drive them away. This is Michael Keaton’s favorite movie. Otho’s shoes, when he spray paints the walls of the house, change from bright red goblin shoes to white shoes as he enters the bathroom and then back to red goblin shoes as he enters the next room. Adam: What are your qualifications? Beetlejuice: Oh. Well… I graduated from Harvard Business School.
I travel a lot
I lived through the Black Death and had a great time. I’VE SEEN THE EXORCIST VERSION SEVEN SEVEN TIMES AND IT GETS MORE HAUSCIOUS EACH TIME I SEE IT… LIKE YOU DON’T FEEL LIKE YOU’RE TALKING TO A DEAD ONE… NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do you think I’m qualified? The Geffen Company logo is accompanied by a macabre version of the Banana Boat song (sung by the film’s composer Danny Elfman). A working copy of the film has surfaced with some added/alternate scenes.
Instead of a desert, he sees an empty darkness full of rolling gear
This version of the movie is about 2 minutes shorter than the theatrical release, has some extra scenes and others missing, is in black and white, and has a timecode at the bottom. This version has 4 main differences:
Alternate Scene:
The scene where Adam tries to leave the house after he and his wife die is different. Additional Scenes:
There is an additional scene where Lydia develops photos she took of Adam and Barbra. Then, after her mother yells at her and blames her for putting holes in the sheets, Lydia runs upstairs and tries to convince her father that the photos are real. There’s more to the scene where the adults are looking for ghosts in the attic, where we see the desert monster trying to eat Adam and Barbra while they’re hanging from the attic window. Finally, there is an extra 2 minute scene at the end where we see Lydia cycling home from school and her parents talking to Jane on the phone telling her they don’t want to sell the house. Lydia’s dance scene is shorter in this version and there is no scene with Beetlejuice in the waiting room.
Edited at Terror Toons (2002)
The film ends with a final exterior shot of the house. Day-OTraditional, lyrics by William A. Attaway & Irving Burgie[Credit error written by William A. Attaway & Irving Burgie (as Lord Burgess)] Performed by Harry Belafonte, courtesy of RCA Records. This is a great movie to watch and appreciate, no need to think or analyze, just enjoy the silliness and cool factor of this beautiful movie. A young couple living in their dream house (Alec Baldwin and Gina Davis) is accidentally killed and has been living as ghosts in the house ever since. Some time later, a family of monsters (Jeffery Jones, Catherine O’Hara) and their disgruntled daughter (Winona Ryder) move in, much to the ghosts’ dismay.
The actors also do a great job
That’s because instead of respecting the charm of the beautiful house, the parents want to turn it into a pseudo-intellectual home for monsters. However, Winona somehow manages to see and communicate with the ghosts, but her parents cannot believe that they exist or that they are doing something bad to the house. The dead couple try to scare the family, but their attempts are really silly (and funny) and it only makes the weirdos want to stay even more! So, out of desperation, they seek out the most evil and nasty ghost, Beetle Juice (Michael Keaton) to help them. The problem is, while Beetle Juice is capable of scaring anyone, he’s also a total maniac, and once unleashed, he’s incredibly hard to stop. The film is full of many things you’d expect to see in a Tim Burton-directed film: weird special effects, weird setting (after the freaks transform the house), fun and a definite “cool factor”.