Beetlejuice (1988) Directed by Tim Burton

“I’ve seen the Exorcist ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN TIMES, AND IT KEEPS GETTING FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT!”.

“Beetlejuice” (Michael Keaton) Not seen until well into the second act of the film and then for a minimal amount of screen time, but what a performance from Keaton. Balancing the persona of the deranged and obnoxious ghost exorcist perfectly, the only criticism is he doesn’t figure more prominently in his own film! What screen time there is is pure gold.

His brief introduction is thus:

Approaching a “Betelgeuse” sign, “Barbara” (Geena Davis) and “Adam” (Alec Baldwin) begin digging at the foot of the grave, accompanied by Danny Elfman’s hurried and hectic cinematic musical score which is a joy throughout. After much digging, rising from his grave, arms outstretched in wonder, delight and triumph is Beetlejuice. Kissing Barbara, then grabbing Adam, before finally settling in between them and enquiring as to the romantic availability of Barbara, it is a wonderfully bizarre and surreal introduction. Always seemingly in the middle of the three, arm in arm, Beetlejuice enquires “who do I have to kill?” as he hands Barbara a live rat and throwing his voice to her!

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The above opening paragraph is taken from my original spoiler free review of "Beetlejuice" penned and published over a decade ago, transferred to my Medium blog site on 24th December 2022 and which can now be read in full and for free via my Substack blog site and updated and original article linked immediately below. I have also linked my original career opus blog article on the first 18 films in the cinematic career of Tim Burton below too:

https://ramblingmusings666.substack.com/p/beetlejuice-1988-b05bd304f7d4

https://medium.com/@stephenblackford561/the-magic-of-tim-burton-680403373369

This spoiler free appreciation is also integral to volume 1 of my 7 volumes of "essential film reviews collection". Currently only available as individual e-books from Amazon and priced at £4.99 however (1) these volumes are exhaustive with numerous spoiler free film reviews contained and (2) should you have an Amazon Kindle "Unlimited" package you can read each and every volume for free.

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