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Beetlejuice
Theatrical release poster by Carl Ramsey
Directed by	Tim Burton
Screenplay by	Michael McDowell Warren Skaaren
Story by	Michael McDowell Larry Wilson
Produced by	Michael Bender Larry Wilson Richard Hashimoto
Starring	Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Jeffrey Jones Catherine O’Hara Winona Ryder Michael Keaton
Cinematography	Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by	Jane Kurson
Music by	Danny Elfman
Production company	The Geffen Company
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	March 30, 1988
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$74.7 million[1]

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film^[2][3] directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, and Warren Skaaren, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the titular character. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Beetlejuice, an obnoxious and devious «bio-exorcist» from the Netherworld, to scare away the house’s new inhabitants.

Beetlejuice was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$74.7 million from a budget of US$15 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three Saturn Awards: Best Horror Film, Best Makeup, and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Sidney. The film’s success spawned an animated television series, video games, and a 2018 stage musical. A sequel is currently in development.

Plot[edit]

In Winter River, Connecticut, Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to spend their vacation decorating their idyllic country home. As they are driving home from a trip to town, Barbara swerves to avoid a dog and the car plunges into the river. After returning home, she and Adam notice they now lack reflections and find a Handbook for the Recently Deceased.

They begin to suspect they did not survive the car accident. When Adam attempts to leave the house, he ends up in a strange and otherworldly desert-like landscape populated by enormous sandworms. The encounter lasts only a few seconds for him but after being rescued by Barbara, she claims that he was gone for two hours.

The house is sold and the new owners, the Deetz family, arrive from New York City. Charles Deetz is a former real estate developer; his second wife Delia is a self-proclaimed sculptor; and his teenage goth daughter Lydia, from his first marriage, is an aspiring photographer. Under the guidance of interior designer Otho, the family transforms the house into a pastel-toned work of modern art.

Consulting the Handbook, the Maitlands travel to an otherworldly waiting room populated by other distressed souls where they discover the afterlife is structured according to a complex bureaucracy involving vouchers and caseworkers. The Maitlands’ caseworker Juno informs them they must remain in the house for the next one hundred and twenty five years on pain of a dire fate. If they want the Deetzes out of the house, it is up to them to scare them away.

Although Adam and Barbara remain invisible to Charles and Delia, Lydia can see the ghost couple and befriends them. Against Juno’s advice, the Maitlands contact the miscreant Beetlejuice, Juno’s former assistant and a now freelance «bio-exorcist», to scare away the Deetzes. At first, they are unaware his name is pronounced «Beetlejuice», which is why they have such difficulty pronouncing it and thereby summoning him.

However, Beetlejuice quickly offends the Maitlands with his crude and morbid demeanor: they reconsider hiring him, though too late to stop him from wreaking havoc on the Deetzes. The small town’s charm and the supernatural events inspire Charles to pitch his boss Maxie Dean on transforming the town into a tourist hot spot, but Maxie wants proof of the ghosts. Using the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Otho conducts what he thinks is a séance and summons Adam and Barbara, using their wedding clothes, but they begin to age and decay as Otho had unwittingly performed an exorcism instead.

Horrified, Lydia summons Beetlejuice for help; but he will only help her on the condition that she marries him, enabling him to freely cause chaos in the mortal world. He saves the Maitlands and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then prepares a wedding before a ghastly minister. The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, with Barbara riding a sandworm through the house to devour Beetlejuice.

Finally, the Deetzes and Maitlands agree to live in harmony within the house. Beetlejuice is stuck in the after-life waiting room. He stole a number ticket from a witch doctor who shrinks his head.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Following the financial success of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Tim Burton became a «bankable» director and began working on a script for Batman with Sam Hamm. While Warner Bros. was willing to pay for the script’s development, they were less willing to green-light Batman.^[4] Burton had become disheartened by the lack of imagination and originality in the scripts that had been sent to him, particularly Hot to Trot. David Geffen handed Burton the script for Beetlejuice, written by Michael McDowell (who wrote the script for «The Jar», an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Burton).^[4]

Larry Wilson was brought on board to continue rewriting work with McDowell, though Burton replaced McDowell and Wilson with Skaaren due to creative differences. Burton’s original choice for Beetlejuice was Sammy Davis Jr. The producers also considered Dudley Moore and Sam Kinison for the role; but Geffen suggested Keaton. Burton was unfamiliar with Keaton’s work, but was quickly convinced.^[5][6] The role of Lydia Deetz was auditioned for by several actresses such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Lori Loughlin, Diane Lane, Justine Bateman, Molly Ringwald, Juliette Lewis and Jennifer Connelly.^[7] Alyssa Milano was the runner-up for the role of Lydia Deetz.^[8] Burton cast Ryder upon seeing her in Lucas. Anjelica Huston was originally cast as Delia Deetz but then later dropped out due to illness.^[7] O’Hara quickly signed on, while Burton claimed it took a lot of time to convince other cast members to sign, as «they didn’t know what to think of the weird script.»^[9]

Beetlejuice‘s budget was US$15 million, with just US$1 million given over to visual effects work. Considering the scale and scope of the effects, which included stop motion, replacement animation, prosthetic makeup, puppetry and blue screen, it was always Burton’s intention to make the style similar to the B movies he grew up with as a child. «I wanted to make them look cheap and purposely fake-looking», Burton remarked.^[10] Burton had wanted to hire Anton Furst as production designer after being impressed with his work on The Company of Wolves (1984) and Full Metal Jacket (1987), though Furst was committed to High Spirits, a choice he later regretted.^[11] He hired Bo Welch, his future collaborator on Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Batman Returns (1992). The test screenings were met with positive feedback and prompted Burton to film an epilogue featuring Betelgeuse foolishly angering a witch doctor.^[12] Warner Bros. disliked the title Beetlejuice and wanted to call the film House Ghosts. As a joke, Burton suggested the name Scared Sheetless and was horrified when the studio actually considered using it.^[13] Exterior shots were filmed in East Corinth, Vermont.^[14]

Writing[edit]

McDowell’s original script is far less comedic and much darker; the Maitlands’ car crash is depicted graphically, with Barbara’s arm being crushed and the couple screaming for help as they slowly drown in the river.^[15] A reference to this remained, as Barbara remarks that her arm feels frozen upon returning home as a ghost.^[16] Instead of possessing the Deetzes and forcing them to dance during dinner, the Maitlands cause a vine-patterned carpet to come to life and attack the Deetzes by tangling them to their chairs.

The character of Betelgeuse—envisioned by McDowell as a winged demon, who takes on the form of a short Middle Eastern man–is also intent on killing the Deetzes rather than scaring them, and wanted sex from Lydia instead of wanting to marry her. In this version of the script, Betelgeuse only needs to be exhumed from his grave to be summoned, after which he is free to wreak havoc; he cannot be summoned or controlled by saying his name three times, and wanders the world freely, appearing to torment different characters in different manifestations. McDowell’s script also featured a second Deetz child, nine-year-old Cathy, the only person able to see the Maitlands and the subject of Betelgeuse’s homicidal wrath in the film’s climax, during which he mutilates her while in the form of a rabid squirrel before revealing his true form.^[15]

In another version of the script, the film was to have concluded with the Maitlands, Deetzes, and Otho conducting an exorcism ritual that destroys Betelgeuse, and the Maitlands transforming into miniature versions of themselves and moving into Adam’s model of their home, which they refurbish to look like their house before the Deetzes moved in.

Co-author and producer Larry Wilson has talked about the negative reaction to McDowell’s original script at Universal where he was employed at the time:

I won’t name names here, but I worked at Universal Studios at the time. I was director of development for the director Walter Hill. I had a very good relationship with a very prominent executive at Universal. He liked me, and he liked what I was doing with Walter, and the material I was bringing in.

I gave him Beetlejuice to read, and I gave it to him on a Friday, and on Monday his assistant called me and said well, he wants to meet with you. My initial reaction was wow! He’d read it. He must have loved it or he wouldn’t have wanted to see me so soon. But I went into his office, and he literally said «what are you doing with your career?»

«This piece of weirdness, this is what you’re going to go out into the world with? You’re developing into a very good executive. You’ve got great taste in material. Why are you going to squander all that for this piece of shit», was basically what he was saying. It goes to show, right? Shortly after that, we sold it to the Geffen Company.^[17]

Skaaren’s rewrite drastically shifted the film’s tone, eliminating the graphic nature of the Maitlands’ deaths while depicting the afterlife as a complex bureaucracy.^[18] Skaaren’s rewrite also altered McDowell’s depiction of the limbo that keeps Barbara and Adam trapped inside of their home; in McDowell’s script, it takes the form of a massive void filled with giant clock gears that shred the fabric of time and space as they move. Skaaren had Barbara and Adam encounter different limbos every time they leave their home, including the «clock world», and the Sandworm’s world, identified as Saturn’s moon Titan. Skaaren also introduced the leitmotif of music accompanying Barbara and Adam’s ghostly hijinks, although his script specified R&B tunes instead of Harry Belafonte,^[18] and was to have concluded with Lydia dancing to «When a Man Loves a Woman».

Skaaren’s first draft retained some of the more sinister characteristics of McDowell’s Betelgeuse, but toned down the character to make him a troublesome pervert rather than blatantly murderous. Betelgeuse’s true form was that of the Middle Eastern man, and much of his dialogue was written in African-American Vernacular English. This version concluded with the Deetzes returning to New York and leaving Lydia in the care of the Maitlands, who, with Lydia’s help, transform the exterior of their home into a stereotypical haunted house while returning the interior to its previous state. It also would have featured deleted scenes such as the real-estate agent, Jane, trying to convince the Deetzes to allow her to sell the house for them (having sold it to them in the first place—Charles and Delia decline), and a revelation on how Beetlejuice had died centuries earlier (that he had attempted to hang himself while drunk, only to mess it up and died slowly choking to death, rather than quickly by snapping his neck) and wound-up working for Juno before striking it out on his own as a «free-lance Bio-Exorcist».

Retrospectively, McDowell was impressed at how many people made the connection between the film’s title and the star Betelgeuse.^[19] He added that the writers and producers had received a suggestion the sequel be named Sanduleak -69 202 after the former star of SN 1987A.

Filming[edit]

While the setting is the fictional village of Winter River, Connecticut, all outdoor scenes were filmed in East Corinth, a village in the town of Corinth, Vermont.^[20] Interiors were filmed at The Culver Studios in Culver City, California. Principal photography began on March 11, 1987.

Soundtrack[edit]

Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman and Harry Belafonte
Released	1988
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	36:00
Label	Geffen
Producer	Geffen Studios
Danny Elfman chronology
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1988) Batman (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[21]
Filmtracks	[22]

The Beetlejuice soundtrack, first released in 1988 on LP, CD, and cassette tape, features most of the score (written and arranged by Danny Elfman) from the film. Geffen reissued the original 1988 soundtrack on vinyl in 2015, which was later re-mastered and pressed to vinyl by Waxwork Records in 2019 for the 30th anniversary of Beetlejuice.^[23] The soundtrack features two original recordings performed by Harry Belafonte used in the film: «Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)» and «Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)». Two other vintage Belafonte recordings that appeared in the film are absent from the soundtrack: «Man Smart, Woman Smarter» and «Sweetheart from Venezuela». The soundtrack entered the Billboard 200 albums chart the week ending June 25, 1988, at No. 145, peaking two weeks later at No. 118 and spending a total of six weeks on the chart. This was after the film had already fallen out of the top 10 and before the video release later in October. «Day-O» received a fair amount of airplay at the time in support of the soundtrack.

The complete score (with the Belafonte tracks included) was released in both the DVD and the Blu-ray as an isolated music track in the audio settings menu; this version of the audio track consists entirely of «clean» musical cues, uninterrupted by dialogue or sound effects.

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Beetlejuice opened theatrically in the United States on March 30, 1988, earning US$8,030,897 in its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed US$74,664,632 in North America. Beetlejuice was a financial success,^[24] recouping its US$15 million budget, and was the 10th-highest grossing film of 1988.^[25][26]

Critical response[edit]

Beetlejuice was met with a mostly positive response. Based on 62 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Beetlejuice received an 85% overall approval rating with a weighted average of 7.2/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Brilliantly bizarre and overflowing with ideas, Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton’s most deliciously manic work — and creepy, funny fun for the whole family.»^[27] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 18 reviews.^[28] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a B on a grade scale of A to F.^[29]

Pauline Kael referred to the film as a «comedy classic»,^[13] while Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader gave a highly positive review. Rosenbaum felt Beetlejuice carried originality and creativity that did not exist in other films.^[30] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it «a farce for our time» and wished Keaton could have received more screen time.^[31] Desson Howe of The Washington Post felt Beetlejuice had «the perfect balance of bizarreness, comedy and horror».^[32]

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, stating that the film «tries anything and everything for effect, and only occasionally manages something marginally funny» and «is about as funny as a shrunken head».^[33] Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, writing that he «would have been more interested if the screenplay had preserved their [Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis] sweet romanticism and cut back on the slapstick». For Keaton’s character, Ebert called him «unrecognizable behind pounds of makeup» and stated that «his scenes don’t seem to fit with the other action».^[34]

In his book Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008, Bruce G. Hallenbeck praised the film’s lively script, assured direction, off-beat casting, and «delightfully off-kilter, Edward Gorey-like look», citing the explorer with the shrunken head and the animated sandworm as particularly memorable visuals.^[35]

Accolades[edit]

At the 61st Academy Awards, Beetlejuice won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, (Steve La Porte, Ve Neill and Robert Short.)^[36] while the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominated the film with Best Visual Effects and Makeup at the 42nd British Academy Film Awards.^[37][38]

Beetlejuice won Best Horror Film and Best Make-up at the 1988 Saturn Awards. Sidney also won the Saturn for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Juno, and the film received five other nominations: Direction for Burton, Writing for McDowell and Skaaren, Best Supporting Actor for Keaton, Music for Elfman and Special Effects.^[39] Beetlejuice was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.^[40] Beetlejuice was 88th in the American Film Institute’s list of Best Comedies.^[41][42]

Sequel[edit]

In 1990, Burton hired Jonathan Gems to write a sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.^[43] «Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they’re totally wrong together,» Gems said.^[44] The story followed the Deetz family moving to Hawaii, where Charles is developing a resort. They soon discover that his company is building on the burial ground of an ancient Hawaiian Kahuna. The spirit comes back from the afterlife to cause trouble, and Beetlejuice becomes a hero by winning a surf contest with magic. Keaton and Ryder agreed to do the film, on the condition that Burton directed, but both he and Keaton became distracted with Batman Returns.^[44]

Burton was still interested in Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in early 1991. Impressed with Daniel Waters’ work on Heathers, Burton approached him for a rewrite. However, he eventually signed Waters to write the script for Batman Returns.^[45] By August 1993, producer David Geffen hired Pamela Norris (Troop Beverly Hills, Saturday Night Live) to rewrite.^[46] Warner Bros. approached Kevin Smith in 1996 to rewrite the script, though Smith turned down the offer in favor of Superman Lives. Smith later joked that his response was «Didn’t we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?»^[47]

In March 1997, Gems released a statement saying «The Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script is still owned by The Geffen Company and it will likely never get made. You really couldn’t do it now anyway. Winona is too old for the role, and the only way they could make it would be to totally recast it.»^[44]

In September 2011, Warner Bros. hired Seth Grahame-Smith, who collaborated with Burton on Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to write and produce a sequel to Beetlejuice.^[49] Grahame-Smith signed on with the intention of doing «a story that is worthy of us actually doing this for real, something that is not just about cashing in, is not just about forcing a remake or a reboot down someone’s throat.» He was also adamant that Keaton would return and that Warner Bros. would not recast the role. Burton and Keaton have not officially signed on but will return if the script is good enough.^[50] Grahame-Smith met with Keaton in February 2012, «We talked for a couple of hours and talked about big picture stuff. It’s a priority for Warner Bros. It’s a priority for Tim. [Michael’s] been wanting to do it for 20 years and he’ll talk to anybody about it who will listen.»^[51] The story will be set in a real time frame from 1988; «This will be a true 26 or 27 years later sequel. What’s great is that for Beetlejuice [sic], time means nothing in the afterlife, but the world outside is a different story.»^[48]

In November 2013, Ryder hinted at a possible return for the sequel as well by saying, «I’m kind of sworn to secrecy but it sounds like it might be happening. It’s 27 years later. And I have to say, I love Lydia Deetz so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later.» Ryder confirmed that she would only consider making a sequel if Burton and Keaton were involved.^[52] In December 2014, Burton stated, «It’s a character that I love and I miss actually working with Michael. There’s only one Betelgeuse. We’re working on a script and I think it’s probably closer than ever and I’d love to work with him again.»^[53] In January 2015, writer Grahame-Smith told Entertainment Weekly that the script was finished and that he and Burton intended to start filming Beetlejuice 2 by the end of the year, and that both Keaton and Ryder would return in their respective roles.^[54] In August 2015, on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Ryder confirmed she would be reprising her role in the sequel.^[55] In May 2016, Burton stated, «It’s something that I really would like to do in the right circumstances, but it’s one of those films where it has to be right. It’s not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel], it’s not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it’s something that if the elements are right—because I do love the character and Michael’s amazing as that character, so yeah we’ll see. But there’s nothing concrete yet.»^[56] In October 2017, Mike Vukadinovich was hired to re-write the script.^[57] In April 2019, Warner Bros. stated the sequel had been shelved.^[58]

In February 2022, a sequel was announced again, this time produced by Plan B Entertainment alongside Warner Bros. with Keaton and Ryder reprising their roles. Principal photography was scheduled to begin that same year.^[59][60][61] Burton stated in October 2022 that he was not involved in the project, but backtracked days later, saying «nothing is out of the question.»^[62]

In other media[edit]

Animated series[edit]

Due to the film’s financial success, a Beetlejuice animated television series was created for ABC. The series ran for four seasons (the final season airing on Fox), lasting from September 9, 1989, to December 6, 1991. Burton served as the show’s developer and executive producer.^[63]

The character of Beetlejuice was later prominently featured in the Teen Titans Go! episode «Ghost with the Most,» which aired in October 2020 as part of the show’s sixth season. In this appearance, he was voiced by Alex Brightman, reprising his role from the Broadway musical.^[64]

Video games[edit]

• Adventures of Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game released for MS-DOS in 1990.
• Beetlejuice is a video game developed by Rare and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991.
• Beetlejuice: Horrific Hijinx from the Neitherworld! is a video game created by Rare and published by LJN for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is based on the animated series.
• A Beetlejuice-themed fun pack for the toys-to-life video game Lego Dimensions was released on September 12, 2017. The pack includes a Beetlejuice minifigure and constructable Saturn’s Sandworm, and adds a Beetlejuice-themed open-world area and battle arena to the game. In the Beetlejuice-themed open-world area, Beetlejuice is voiced by Christopher Swindle, Adam Maitland is voiced by Jeff Shine, Barbara Maitland and Delia Dietz are voiced by Krizia Bajos, and Harry the Head-Shrunken Hunter is voiced by Tom Kane. Beetlejuice also features prominently in an episode of Teen Titans Go! included as part of the game. In the Teen Titans Go! episode, when the Titans travel to the Lego world, Raven manages to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times and she gets to go to the Beetlejuice world and Beetlejuice says if Raven wants to win the Lego building competition, she should resort to cheating and use magic. However, Beetlejuice actually tricks her into making a giant gargoyle that the Titans have to fight.^[65]

Stage musical[edit]

In 2016, work began on a Broadway stage musical adaptation of the film directed by Alex Timbers, produced by Warner Bros., with music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and the musical book written by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The musical was debuted by readings starring Christopher Fitzgerald with the second featuring Kris Kukul as musical director and Connor Gallagher as choreographer.^[66] The musical premiered its pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. for a limited run from October 14 to November 18, 2018, with Alex Brightman in the title role.^[67]

In December 2019, the producers announced that the production would play its final performance at the Winter Garden on June 6, 2020, to make way for a revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. The producers sought to find a theatre to transfer the show to, but the run was cut short when Broadway was shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent productions are set to open across the world, including a North American national tour. The show reopened at the Marquis Theatre on April 8, 2022.

See also[edit]

• List of ghost films

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Beetlejuice at IMDb
• Beetlejuice at AllMovie
• Beetlejuice at Box Office Mojo
• Beetlejuice at Rotten Tomatoes
• Beetlejuice at Metacritic
• Official site for Beetlejuice’s Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue

Beetlejuice
Theatrical release poster by Carl Ramsey
Directed by	Tim Burton
Screenplay by	Michael McDowell Warren Skaaren
Story by	Michael McDowell Larry Wilson
Produced by	Michael Bender Larry Wilson Richard Hashimoto
Starring	Alec Baldwin Geena Davis Jeffrey Jones Catherine O’Hara Winona Ryder Michael Keaton
Cinematography	Thomas E. Ackerman
Edited by	Jane Kurson
Music by	Danny Elfman
Production company	The Geffen Company
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	March 30, 1988
Running time	92 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$74.7 million[1]

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film^[2][3] directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, and Warren Skaaren, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the titular character. The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Beetlejuice, an obnoxious and devious «bio-exorcist» from the Netherworld, to scare away the house’s new inhabitants.

Beetlejuice was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$74.7 million from a budget of US$15 million. It won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and three Saturn Awards: Best Horror Film, Best Makeup, and Best Supporting Actress for Sylvia Sidney. The film’s success spawned an animated television series, video games, and a 2018 stage musical. A sequel is currently in development.

Plot[edit]

In Winter River, Connecticut, Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to spend their vacation decorating their idyllic country home. As they are driving home from a trip to town, Barbara swerves to avoid a dog and the car plunges into the river. After returning home, she and Adam notice they now lack reflections and find a Handbook for the Recently Deceased.

They begin to suspect they did not survive the car accident. When Adam attempts to leave the house, he ends up in a strange and otherworldly desert-like landscape populated by enormous sandworms. The encounter lasts only a few seconds for him but after being rescued by Barbara, she claims that he was gone for two hours.

The house is sold and the new owners, the Deetz family, arrive from New York City. Charles Deetz is a former real estate developer; his second wife Delia is a self-proclaimed sculptor; and his teenage goth daughter Lydia, from his first marriage, is an aspiring photographer. Under the guidance of interior designer Otho, the family transforms the house into a pastel-toned work of modern art.

Consulting the Handbook, the Maitlands travel to an otherworldly waiting room populated by other distressed souls where they discover the afterlife is structured according to a complex bureaucracy involving vouchers and caseworkers. The Maitlands’ caseworker Juno informs them they must remain in the house for the next one hundred and twenty five years on pain of a dire fate. If they want the Deetzes out of the house, it is up to them to scare them away.

Although Adam and Barbara remain invisible to Charles and Delia, Lydia can see the ghost couple and befriends them. Against Juno’s advice, the Maitlands contact the miscreant Beetlejuice, Juno’s former assistant and a now freelance «bio-exorcist», to scare away the Deetzes. At first, they are unaware his name is pronounced «Beetlejuice», which is why they have such difficulty pronouncing it and thereby summoning him.

However, Beetlejuice quickly offends the Maitlands with his crude and morbid demeanor: they reconsider hiring him, though too late to stop him from wreaking havoc on the Deetzes. The small town’s charm and the supernatural events inspire Charles to pitch his boss Maxie Dean on transforming the town into a tourist hot spot, but Maxie wants proof of the ghosts. Using the Handbook for the Recently Deceased, Otho conducts what he thinks is a séance and summons Adam and Barbara, using their wedding clothes, but they begin to age and decay as Otho had unwittingly performed an exorcism instead.

Horrified, Lydia summons Beetlejuice for help; but he will only help her on the condition that she marries him, enabling him to freely cause chaos in the mortal world. He saves the Maitlands and disposes of Maxie, his wife, and Otho, then prepares a wedding before a ghastly minister. The Maitlands intervene before the ceremony is completed, with Barbara riding a sandworm through the house to devour Beetlejuice.

Finally, the Deetzes and Maitlands agree to live in harmony within the house. Beetlejuice is stuck in the after-life waiting room. He stole a number ticket from a witch doctor who shrinks his head.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Development[edit]

Following the financial success of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Tim Burton became a «bankable» director and began working on a script for Batman with Sam Hamm. While Warner Bros. was willing to pay for the script’s development, they were less willing to green-light Batman.^[4] Burton had become disheartened by the lack of imagination and originality in the scripts that had been sent to him, particularly Hot to Trot. David Geffen handed Burton the script for Beetlejuice, written by Michael McDowell (who wrote the script for «The Jar», an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents directed by Burton).^[4]

Larry Wilson was brought on board to continue rewriting work with McDowell, though Burton replaced McDowell and Wilson with Skaaren due to creative differences. Burton’s original choice for Beetlejuice was Sammy Davis Jr. The producers also considered Dudley Moore and Sam Kinison for the role; but Geffen suggested Keaton. Burton was unfamiliar with Keaton’s work, but was quickly convinced.^[5][6] The role of Lydia Deetz was auditioned for by several actresses such as Sarah Jessica Parker, Brooke Shields, Lori Loughlin, Diane Lane, Justine Bateman, Molly Ringwald, Juliette Lewis and Jennifer Connelly.^[7] Alyssa Milano was the runner-up for the role of Lydia Deetz.^[8] Burton cast Ryder upon seeing her in Lucas. Anjelica Huston was originally cast as Delia Deetz but then later dropped out due to illness.^[7] O’Hara quickly signed on, while Burton claimed it took a lot of time to convince other cast members to sign, as «they didn’t know what to think of the weird script.»^[9]

Beetlejuice‘s budget was US$15 million, with just US$1 million given over to visual effects work. Considering the scale and scope of the effects, which included stop motion, replacement animation, prosthetic makeup, puppetry and blue screen, it was always Burton’s intention to make the style similar to the B movies he grew up with as a child. «I wanted to make them look cheap and purposely fake-looking», Burton remarked.^[10] Burton had wanted to hire Anton Furst as production designer after being impressed with his work on The Company of Wolves (1984) and Full Metal Jacket (1987), though Furst was committed to High Spirits, a choice he later regretted.^[11] He hired Bo Welch, his future collaborator on Edward Scissorhands (1990) and Batman Returns (1992). The test screenings were met with positive feedback and prompted Burton to film an epilogue featuring Betelgeuse foolishly angering a witch doctor.^[12] Warner Bros. disliked the title Beetlejuice and wanted to call the film House Ghosts. As a joke, Burton suggested the name Scared Sheetless and was horrified when the studio actually considered using it.^[13] Exterior shots were filmed in East Corinth, Vermont.^[14]

Writing[edit]

McDowell’s original script is far less comedic and much darker; the Maitlands’ car crash is depicted graphically, with Barbara’s arm being crushed and the couple screaming for help as they slowly drown in the river.^[15] A reference to this remained, as Barbara remarks that her arm feels frozen upon returning home as a ghost.^[16] Instead of possessing the Deetzes and forcing them to dance during dinner, the Maitlands cause a vine-patterned carpet to come to life and attack the Deetzes by tangling them to their chairs.

The character of Betelgeuse—envisioned by McDowell as a winged demon, who takes on the form of a short Middle Eastern man–is also intent on killing the Deetzes rather than scaring them, and wanted sex from Lydia instead of wanting to marry her. In this version of the script, Betelgeuse only needs to be exhumed from his grave to be summoned, after which he is free to wreak havoc; he cannot be summoned or controlled by saying his name three times, and wanders the world freely, appearing to torment different characters in different manifestations. McDowell’s script also featured a second Deetz child, nine-year-old Cathy, the only person able to see the Maitlands and the subject of Betelgeuse’s homicidal wrath in the film’s climax, during which he mutilates her while in the form of a rabid squirrel before revealing his true form.^[15]

In another version of the script, the film was to have concluded with the Maitlands, Deetzes, and Otho conducting an exorcism ritual that destroys Betelgeuse, and the Maitlands transforming into miniature versions of themselves and moving into Adam’s model of their home, which they refurbish to look like their house before the Deetzes moved in.

Co-author and producer Larry Wilson has talked about the negative reaction to McDowell’s original script at Universal where he was employed at the time:

I won’t name names here, but I worked at Universal Studios at the time. I was director of development for the director Walter Hill. I had a very good relationship with a very prominent executive at Universal. He liked me, and he liked what I was doing with Walter, and the material I was bringing in.

I gave him Beetlejuice to read, and I gave it to him on a Friday, and on Monday his assistant called me and said well, he wants to meet with you. My initial reaction was wow! He’d read it. He must have loved it or he wouldn’t have wanted to see me so soon. But I went into his office, and he literally said «what are you doing with your career?»

«This piece of weirdness, this is what you’re going to go out into the world with? You’re developing into a very good executive. You’ve got great taste in material. Why are you going to squander all that for this piece of shit», was basically what he was saying. It goes to show, right? Shortly after that, we sold it to the Geffen Company.^[17]

Skaaren’s rewrite drastically shifted the film’s tone, eliminating the graphic nature of the Maitlands’ deaths while depicting the afterlife as a complex bureaucracy.^[18] Skaaren’s rewrite also altered McDowell’s depiction of the limbo that keeps Barbara and Adam trapped inside of their home; in McDowell’s script, it takes the form of a massive void filled with giant clock gears that shred the fabric of time and space as they move. Skaaren had Barbara and Adam encounter different limbos every time they leave their home, including the «clock world», and the Sandworm’s world, identified as Saturn’s moon Titan. Skaaren also introduced the leitmotif of music accompanying Barbara and Adam’s ghostly hijinks, although his script specified R&B tunes instead of Harry Belafonte,^[18] and was to have concluded with Lydia dancing to «When a Man Loves a Woman».

Skaaren’s first draft retained some of the more sinister characteristics of McDowell’s Betelgeuse, but toned down the character to make him a troublesome pervert rather than blatantly murderous. Betelgeuse’s true form was that of the Middle Eastern man, and much of his dialogue was written in African-American Vernacular English. This version concluded with the Deetzes returning to New York and leaving Lydia in the care of the Maitlands, who, with Lydia’s help, transform the exterior of their home into a stereotypical haunted house while returning the interior to its previous state. It also would have featured deleted scenes such as the real-estate agent, Jane, trying to convince the Deetzes to allow her to sell the house for them (having sold it to them in the first place—Charles and Delia decline), and a revelation on how Beetlejuice had died centuries earlier (that he had attempted to hang himself while drunk, only to mess it up and died slowly choking to death, rather than quickly by snapping his neck) and wound-up working for Juno before striking it out on his own as a «free-lance Bio-Exorcist».

Retrospectively, McDowell was impressed at how many people made the connection between the film’s title and the star Betelgeuse.^[19] He added that the writers and producers had received a suggestion the sequel be named Sanduleak -69 202 after the former star of SN 1987A.

Filming[edit]

While the setting is the fictional village of Winter River, Connecticut, all outdoor scenes were filmed in East Corinth, a village in the town of Corinth, Vermont.^[20] Interiors were filmed at The Culver Studios in Culver City, California. Principal photography began on March 11, 1987.

Soundtrack[edit]

Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman and Harry Belafonte
Released	1988
Genre	Soundtrack
Length	36:00
Label	Geffen
Producer	Geffen Studios
Danny Elfman chronology
Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985) Beetlejuice (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (1988) Batman (1989)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[21]
Filmtracks	[22]

The Beetlejuice soundtrack, first released in 1988 on LP, CD, and cassette tape, features most of the score (written and arranged by Danny Elfman) from the film. Geffen reissued the original 1988 soundtrack on vinyl in 2015, which was later re-mastered and pressed to vinyl by Waxwork Records in 2019 for the 30th anniversary of Beetlejuice.^[23] The soundtrack features two original recordings performed by Harry Belafonte used in the film: «Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)» and «Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora)». Two other vintage Belafonte recordings that appeared in the film are absent from the soundtrack: «Man Smart, Woman Smarter» and «Sweetheart from Venezuela». The soundtrack entered the Billboard 200 albums chart the week ending June 25, 1988, at No. 145, peaking two weeks later at No. 118 and spending a total of six weeks on the chart. This was after the film had already fallen out of the top 10 and before the video release later in October. «Day-O» received a fair amount of airplay at the time in support of the soundtrack.

The complete score (with the Belafonte tracks included) was released in both the DVD and the Blu-ray as an isolated music track in the audio settings menu; this version of the audio track consists entirely of «clean» musical cues, uninterrupted by dialogue or sound effects.

Reception[edit]

Box office[edit]

Beetlejuice opened theatrically in the United States on March 30, 1988, earning US$8,030,897 in its opening weekend. The film eventually grossed US$74,664,632 in North America. Beetlejuice was a financial success,^[24] recouping its US$15 million budget, and was the 10th-highest grossing film of 1988.^[25][26]

Critical response[edit]

Beetlejuice was met with a mostly positive response. Based on 62 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, Beetlejuice received an 85% overall approval rating with a weighted average of 7.2/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, «Brilliantly bizarre and overflowing with ideas, Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton’s most deliciously manic work — and creepy, funny fun for the whole family.»^[27] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 70 out of 100, based on 18 reviews.^[28] Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a B on a grade scale of A to F.^[29]

Pauline Kael referred to the film as a «comedy classic»,^[13] while Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader gave a highly positive review. Rosenbaum felt Beetlejuice carried originality and creativity that did not exist in other films.^[30] Vincent Canby of The New York Times called it «a farce for our time» and wished Keaton could have received more screen time.^[31] Desson Howe of The Washington Post felt Beetlejuice had «the perfect balance of bizarreness, comedy and horror».^[32]

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, stating that the film «tries anything and everything for effect, and only occasionally manages something marginally funny» and «is about as funny as a shrunken head».^[33] Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars, writing that he «would have been more interested if the screenplay had preserved their [Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis] sweet romanticism and cut back on the slapstick». For Keaton’s character, Ebert called him «unrecognizable behind pounds of makeup» and stated that «his scenes don’t seem to fit with the other action».^[34]

In his book Comedy-Horror Films: A Chronological History, 1914-2008, Bruce G. Hallenbeck praised the film’s lively script, assured direction, off-beat casting, and «delightfully off-kilter, Edward Gorey-like look», citing the explorer with the shrunken head and the animated sandworm as particularly memorable visuals.^[35]

Accolades[edit]

At the 61st Academy Awards, Beetlejuice won the Academy Award for Best Makeup, (Steve La Porte, Ve Neill and Robert Short.)^[36] while the British Academy of Film and Television Arts nominated the film with Best Visual Effects and Makeup at the 42nd British Academy Film Awards.^[37][38]

Beetlejuice won Best Horror Film and Best Make-up at the 1988 Saturn Awards. Sidney also won the Saturn for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Juno, and the film received five other nominations: Direction for Burton, Writing for McDowell and Skaaren, Best Supporting Actor for Keaton, Music for Elfman and Special Effects.^[39] Beetlejuice was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.^[40] Beetlejuice was 88th in the American Film Institute’s list of Best Comedies.^[41][42]

Sequel[edit]

In 1990, Burton hired Jonathan Gems to write a sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.^[43] «Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they’re totally wrong together,» Gems said.^[44] The story followed the Deetz family moving to Hawaii, where Charles is developing a resort. They soon discover that his company is building on the burial ground of an ancient Hawaiian Kahuna. The spirit comes back from the afterlife to cause trouble, and Beetlejuice becomes a hero by winning a surf contest with magic. Keaton and Ryder agreed to do the film, on the condition that Burton directed, but both he and Keaton became distracted with Batman Returns.^[44]

Burton was still interested in Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in early 1991. Impressed with Daniel Waters’ work on Heathers, Burton approached him for a rewrite. However, he eventually signed Waters to write the script for Batman Returns.^[45] By August 1993, producer David Geffen hired Pamela Norris (Troop Beverly Hills, Saturday Night Live) to rewrite.^[46] Warner Bros. approached Kevin Smith in 1996 to rewrite the script, though Smith turned down the offer in favor of Superman Lives. Smith later joked that his response was «Didn’t we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice? Must we go tropical?»^[47]

In March 1997, Gems released a statement saying «The Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script is still owned by The Geffen Company and it will likely never get made. You really couldn’t do it now anyway. Winona is too old for the role, and the only way they could make it would be to totally recast it.»^[44]

In September 2011, Warner Bros. hired Seth Grahame-Smith, who collaborated with Burton on Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to write and produce a sequel to Beetlejuice.^[49] Grahame-Smith signed on with the intention of doing «a story that is worthy of us actually doing this for real, something that is not just about cashing in, is not just about forcing a remake or a reboot down someone’s throat.» He was also adamant that Keaton would return and that Warner Bros. would not recast the role. Burton and Keaton have not officially signed on but will return if the script is good enough.^[50] Grahame-Smith met with Keaton in February 2012, «We talked for a couple of hours and talked about big picture stuff. It’s a priority for Warner Bros. It’s a priority for Tim. [Michael’s] been wanting to do it for 20 years and he’ll talk to anybody about it who will listen.»^[51] The story will be set in a real time frame from 1988; «This will be a true 26 or 27 years later sequel. What’s great is that for Beetlejuice [sic], time means nothing in the afterlife, but the world outside is a different story.»^[48]

In November 2013, Ryder hinted at a possible return for the sequel as well by saying, «I’m kind of sworn to secrecy but it sounds like it might be happening. It’s 27 years later. And I have to say, I love Lydia Deetz so much. She was such a huge part of me. I would be really interested in what she is doing 27 years later.» Ryder confirmed that she would only consider making a sequel if Burton and Keaton were involved.^[52] In December 2014, Burton stated, «It’s a character that I love and I miss actually working with Michael. There’s only one Betelgeuse. We’re working on a script and I think it’s probably closer than ever and I’d love to work with him again.»^[53] In January 2015, writer Grahame-Smith told Entertainment Weekly that the script was finished and that he and Burton intended to start filming Beetlejuice 2 by the end of the year, and that both Keaton and Ryder would return in their respective roles.^[54] In August 2015, on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Ryder confirmed she would be reprising her role in the sequel.^[55] In May 2016, Burton stated, «It’s something that I really would like to do in the right circumstances, but it’s one of those films where it has to be right. It’s not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel], it’s not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it’s something that if the elements are right—because I do love the character and Michael’s amazing as that character, so yeah we’ll see. But there’s nothing concrete yet.»^[56] In October 2017, Mike Vukadinovich was hired to re-write the script.^[57] In April 2019, Warner Bros. stated the sequel had been shelved.^[58]

In February 2022, a sequel was announced again, this time produced by Plan B Entertainment alongside Warner Bros. with Keaton and Ryder reprising their roles. Principal photography was scheduled to begin that same year.^[59][60][61] Burton stated in October 2022 that he was not involved in the project, but backtracked days later, saying «nothing is out of the question.»^[62]

In other media[edit]

Animated series[edit]

Due to the film’s financial success, a Beetlejuice animated television series was created for ABC. The series ran for four seasons (the final season airing on Fox), lasting from September 9, 1989, to December 6, 1991. Burton served as the show’s developer and executive producer.^[63]

The character of Beetlejuice was later prominently featured in the Teen Titans Go! episode «Ghost with the Most,» which aired in October 2020 as part of the show’s sixth season. In this appearance, he was voiced by Alex Brightman, reprising his role from the Broadway musical.^[64]

Video games[edit]

• Adventures of Beetlejuice: Skeletons in the Closet is a video game released for MS-DOS in 1990.
• Beetlejuice is a video game developed by Rare and released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1991.
• Beetlejuice: Horrific Hijinx from the Neitherworld! is a video game created by Rare and published by LJN for the Nintendo Game Boy. It is based on the animated series.
• A Beetlejuice-themed fun pack for the toys-to-life video game Lego Dimensions was released on September 12, 2017. The pack includes a Beetlejuice minifigure and constructable Saturn’s Sandworm, and adds a Beetlejuice-themed open-world area and battle arena to the game. In the Beetlejuice-themed open-world area, Beetlejuice is voiced by Christopher Swindle, Adam Maitland is voiced by Jeff Shine, Barbara Maitland and Delia Dietz are voiced by Krizia Bajos, and Harry the Head-Shrunken Hunter is voiced by Tom Kane. Beetlejuice also features prominently in an episode of Teen Titans Go! included as part of the game. In the Teen Titans Go! episode, when the Titans travel to the Lego world, Raven manages to summon Beetlejuice by saying his name three times and she gets to go to the Beetlejuice world and Beetlejuice says if Raven wants to win the Lego building competition, she should resort to cheating and use magic. However, Beetlejuice actually tricks her into making a giant gargoyle that the Titans have to fight.^[65]

Stage musical[edit]

In 2016, work began on a Broadway stage musical adaptation of the film directed by Alex Timbers, produced by Warner Bros., with music and lyrics by Eddie Perfect and the musical book written by Scott Brown and Anthony King. The musical was debuted by readings starring Christopher Fitzgerald with the second featuring Kris Kukul as musical director and Connor Gallagher as choreographer.^[66] The musical premiered its pre-Broadway tryout at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. for a limited run from October 14 to November 18, 2018, with Alex Brightman in the title role.^[67]

In December 2019, the producers announced that the production would play its final performance at the Winter Garden on June 6, 2020, to make way for a revival of The Music Man starring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster. The producers sought to find a theatre to transfer the show to, but the run was cut short when Broadway was shut down in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent productions are set to open across the world, including a North American national tour. The show reopened at the Marquis Theatre on April 8, 2022.

See also[edit]

• List of ghost films

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Beetlejuice at IMDb
• Beetlejuice at AllMovie
• Beetlejuice at Box Office Mojo
• Beetlejuice at Rotten Tomatoes
• Beetlejuice at Metacritic
• Official site for Beetlejuice’s Rock and Roll Graveyard Revue

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beetlejuices

Битлджус

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(a 1988 comedy horror fantasy film)

I think it’s like Beetlejuice.

Думаю, это как в «Битлджусе«.

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I think it’s like Beetlejuice.
Думаю, это как в «Битлджусе«.

She be looking like Beetlejuice and shit.
И та выглядела как гребаный Битлджус.

Don’t you usually wear the stripey turquoise beetlejuice numbers?
Разве ты не носишь обычно полосатое розовое белье Битлджуса?

It’s not Beetlejuice, it won’t appear if you say it three times.
Это не Битлджус, оно не появится, если ты скажешь это трижды.

Look, Beetlejuice, I don’t remember saying your name three times, so stay the hell out of my business.
Слушай, Битлджус, не помню, чтобы я трижды звал тебя по имени, так что не лезь в мои дела.

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Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice in 2004 during The Killers of Comedy Tour
Born	Lester Green June 2, 1968 (age 54) Browns Mills, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupations	Actor entertainer
Years active	1999–present
Height	4 ft 3 in (130 cm)[1]
Website	beetlemerch.com

Lester Green (born June 2, 1968),^[2] better known as Beetlejuice, is an American entertainer and actor. Green rose to prominence in 1999 due to his appearances on The Howard Stern Show, becoming a member of Stern’s Wack Pack. He was named the greatest Wack Packer of all time in 2015.^[3] He has also appeared in such feature films as Bubble Boy (2001) and Scary Movie 2 (2001).^[4]

Personal life[edit]

Green was born with dwarfism and microcephaly, a condition that caused his small head relative to his small body and an intellectual disability.^[5] He is the second youngest of six children by his mother Lillie and was raised in the Marion Section of Jersey City, New Jersey.^[6] Green was discovered in a neighborhood bar by Sean Rooney who became his manager. He would go on to become an entertainer and joined Rooney’s dwarf tossing company where he was given his nickname because of his resemblance to a character in the movie Beetlejuice (1988).^[7] Sean Rooney died in 2009^[8] and management of Green’s career would fall to his brother, Bobby Rooney.^[9]

On the October 2, 2007, broadcast of The Howard Stern Show, Jerry O’Connell revealed that he knew Green while he was growing up. O’Connell’s mother was Green’s special education teacher at PS 31 in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Green was such a good student that he did special work as her «assistant».^[10]

Career[edit]

Early appearances and The Howard Stern Show[edit]

Green made his debut on The Howard Stern Show on July 14, 1999, making an appearance with Frank «Third Degree» Burns, another midget, while Rooney was promoting his dwarf tossing business.^[7][11] Stern immediately took a liking to Beetlejuice and saw his potential for stardom, calling him a «once in a lifetime guest».^[12] Green would go on to make numerous appearances on the show and became one of Stern’s most popular guests. Despite his popularity, some have been more critical of his appearances on the show due to the belief that Stern exploits developmentally disabled individuals.^[13]

In 2000, Stern was invited to the 17th AVN Awards to receive an honorary exclusive achievement award which he sent Green to receive for him. Green gave the acceptance speech with some direction from his manager that had to be stopped due to his lengthy, «incomprehensible rambling». That same year he made an appearance on WCW Nitro where, dressed as Superman, he confronted Jeff Jarrett backstage, who then proceeded to hit Green over the head with a guitar after calling Jarrett a «Slap Nut”. Green then interrupted Jarrett’s WCW Championship match before being pummeled by the wrestler in the ring.^[14] During the 2000 United States Senate election in New York, Green appeared in a «Beetlejuice for Senate» parody campaign ad created for The Howard Stern Show.^{[citation needed]} In the ad, Green announced his stances on various subjects such as abortion, taxes, education and drugs.^{[citation needed]}

Rise to fame[edit]

Green portrayed a fictional character in the 2001 cult comedy film Bubble Boy named Lil’ Zip, a member of a freak show that Jake Gyllenhaal’s character Jimmy Livingston meets. Another member of Stern’s Wack Pack, Matthew McGrory, also appeared alongside Green. That same year he would make a cameo appearance as himself in Scary Movie 2, depicted as the brain of Marlon Wayans’ stoner character Shorty Meeks.

In 2002, he appeared in rapper N.O.R.E.’s music video for the song «Grimey»^[15] and was featured on three songs on the hip-hop group Smut Peddlers’ 2001 debut album, Porn Again, on the tracks «Beetlejuice Intro», «Pimpology by Beetlejuice», and «Beetlejuice Outtakes»^[16] on Rawkus Records.^[17]

Green sang «This Is Beetle», also known as «The Beetlejuice Song», on The Howard Stern Show in late 2004.^[18] Stern Show producer Richard Christy recorded the song, wrote music to accompany Beetlejuice’s raw vocals, and then engineered it into the full song.^[19] The key lyrics to the song are, «This is Beetle, he’s bad as can, and he knows he’s the best.»^[20] The song, which Green created spontaneously in the recording studio, has been covered by the rock band Staind,^[21] who included the song on special editions of their album Chapter V. On September 19, 2005, Blues Traveler played their version of «This Is Beetle» on The Howard Stern Show.^[20][22] Initially, Stern was unable to broadcast this recording on his Sirius Satellite Radio program because CBS Radio owned the copyright to all of Stern’s shows from K-Rock.^[23] Stern and his production staff recreated many of the more popular segments from his days on K-Rock, but attempts to recreate «This Is Beetle» were unsuccessful. However, in May 2006, Stern, Sirius, and CBS reached an agreement to sell the rights for all his K-Rock broadcasts to Sirius, thus enabling Stern to play the song.^[23] There was also a controversy around the share of potential profits from the song, and Green’s manager at the time, Sean Rooney, got into an argument with Gary Dell’Abate, the executive producer of The Howard Stern Show, regarding the percentage share of the profits between Green and Christy.^[24]

Throughout his career Green also participated in amateur boxing matches with other little people.^[25]

In June 2008, film director Michael Bay intended for Green to cameo in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009), but Green reportedly was difficult to direct and so Bay opted not to have him appear.^[26] In 2009, Green was featured in his own five-episode reality television show entitled This is Beetle on the Howard TV.^[27]

Green’s likeness is a popular internet meme called a «reaction image Macro». The image, uploaded to his official Instagram account in 2016, shows him eating while sitting at a table looking at something out of frame.^{[28][user-generated source]} Additionally, videos and compilations of Green are popular on sites such as YouTube, Reddit, and Facebook, with many of these videos receiving millions of views.^[29]

Recent appearances[edit]

In February 2021, Green made his first appearance on The Howard Stern Show in over five years. He informed Stern that he relocated to Georgia with his mother, and also debuted a remixed version of his 2015 song «Beetle in the House», featuring Snoop Dogg, Sean Paul, and Big Freedia.^[30]

In February 2022, Green’s manager launched an NFT on the Goldin’s Auction platform, which allowed the winning bidder to receive a physical rookie card signed by Green as well as a video of Green telling his life story.^[31] It sold for $15,000 after 21 bids.^[32]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Year	Title	Role
2012	Girls Gone Dead	Himself
2004	Beetle Uncensored	Himself
2001	Scary Movie 2	Shorty’s Brain/Himself
Bubble Boy	Lil’ Zip

Television[edit]

Year	Title	Role
2009	This is Beetle	Himself
2003	Doggy Fizzle Televizzle	Himself and Super Juice
2001	Son of the Beach	Himself[33]
2000	WCW Monday Nitro	Himself
1999-2005	Howard Stern	Himself

Video games[edit]

Year	Title	Role
2005	True Crime: New York City	Zeke (voice)[34]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Beetlejuice at IMDb

Translation of «Beetlejuice» into Russian

Битлджюс is the translation of «Beetlejuice» into Russian.
Sample translated sentence: It’s not Beetlejuice, it won’t appear if you say it three times. ↔ Это не Битлджус, оно не появится, если ты скажешь это трижды.

Beetlejuice

proper

(informal) The star Betelgeuse [..]

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It’s not Beetlejuice, it won’t appear if you say it three times.

Это не Битлджус, оно не появится, если ты скажешь это трижды.

Every day, its contents went quietly and carefully into the beetlejuice he got for Jeannette.

А ее содержимое ежедневно и тайно добавлялось в таракановку, которую он добывал для Жанетты.

With Beetlejuice, I had the opportunity to hire a designer who I wanted, and to do more what I wanted to do.

Для «Битлджуса» я имел возможность нанять художника по своему вкусу и делать почти все, что хочу.

Don’t you usually wear the stripey turquoise beetlejuice numbers?

Разве ты не носишь обычно полосатое розовое белье Битлджуса?

Fine, nobody say » Beetlejuice » again.

Хорошо, больше никому не произносить » Битлджус «.

I need to find a cult book, the way I’ve done with my two films, Beetlejuice and The Big Blue.

Мне необходима культовая книга, такая же сильная, как два моих любимых фильма – «Битлджус» и «Голубая бездна».

What’s it like – Beetlejuice – where you say his name too many times and bad stuff starts happening?”

Это напоминает... Битлджус, когда ты произносишь его имя слишком много раз и начинают происходить ужасные вещи.

I prepared by watching his other films – Beetlejuice, Batman, Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure.

Я подготовился к ней, посмотрев другие его фильмы: «Битлджус», «Бэтмен», «Большое приключение Пи-Ви».

Pee-Wee acts like an animal, Beetlejuice, Penguin, the Catwoman … Batman is an animal.

Как животные ведут себя Пи-Ви, Битлджус, Пингвин, Женщина-Кошка…

Beetlejuice was amorphous, but it didn’t matter because it wasn’t as expensive, and it wasn’t as big a dinosaur.

«Битлджус» отличался аморфностью, но это не имело большого значения: он не был огромным дорогостоящим динозавром.

Beetlejuice proved that it didn’t have to be that way.

«Битлджус» доказал, что это вовсе не обязательно.

Oh. I was hoping that would summon you, like Beetlejuice.

Я надеялась, что это призовёт тебя, как Битлджуса.

There was a weird incident with Beetlejuice.

С «Битлджусом» произошел странный случай.

But when you diluted the beetlejuice with Easyglow … unknowing, of course—’

Но когда ты стал замещать алкоголь «Алкодотом., конечно, не подозревая ни о чем …

«The Despair Factor» contains the lyrics «My whole life is a dark room… one big dark room,» which is a line originally spoken by Winona Ryder in the film Beetlejuice.

В песне «The Despair Factor» есть слова «My whole life is a dark room… one big dark room», которые принадлежат Вайноне Райдер в фильме «Битлджус».

I realized from Beetlejuice that there are some people who can do that, and that’s fine.

На опыте «Битлджуса» я понял: есть люди, способные сделать такое, что ж — замечательно.

I was like, » Didn’t we say all we needed to say with the first Beetlejuice?

На что я ответил: » Разве в первом’Битлджюсе’тема не раскрыта?

I think it’s like Beetlejuice.

Думаю, это как в » Битлджусе «.

I was at a meeting and they said, ‘Beetlejuice doesn’t test, but House Ghosts is going through the roof.’

Я пришел на заседание, а мне говорят: «Битлджус», мол, не годится, а «Домашние привидения» проходит на «ура».

The second is Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. »

Во-вторых,’Битлджюс на Гавайях'».

In Beetlejuice, young Lydia Deetz has the gift of being able to talk to ghosts.

В «Битлджусе» юная Лидия Дитц умеет говорить с призраками.

She be looking like Beetlejuice and shit.

И та выглядела как гребаный Битлджус.

In the horror comedy film Beetlejuice (1988), Jones and Catherine O’Hara portrayed a married couple (Charles and Delia Deetz) who unwittingly become co-owners of a haunted house.

В фильме «Битлджус» (1988) Джонс и Кэтрин О’Хара изобразили семейную пару (Чарльза и Делию Дитц), которая невольно стали владельцами дома с привидениями.