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Meet the Maitlands, Barbara and Adam. They're a young couple, crazy in love, and trying to have a baby to fill up their idyllic home in a sleepy little Connecticut town. One day, they run to town for an errand...and crash through the covered bridge over the river.
The ghosts of the Maitlands return home, not knowing how, and find that they can no longer leave it (unless they want to be beset by [[Sand Worm|sandworms]]). Even worse, their house has been sold to the
This iconic [[Tim Burton]] movie remains one of the most popular comedy movies of all time. Though it contains the typical gothic imagery you'd expect from [[Tim Burton]], it also features memorable performances by Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, [[Winona Ryder]], and [[Michael Keaton]] as the B-Man himself, as well as the musical stylings of both [[Danny Elfman]] and Harry Belafonte. Mix all of these elements together, and it's not hard to figure out why ''Beetlejuice'' soon became a staple of Halloween.
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* [[Bishonen Line]]: Betelgeuse shapeshifts into a variety of forms throughout the film and appears in the model repeatedly, but for the final confrontation appears full-sized at last, now wearing the iconic black and white suit.
* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: Most notably the hallway in the afterlife... but also a few other instances, such as at the very end. Not to mention what the Deetzes do to the Maitlands house after moving in.
* [[Black Comedy]]: Of course. Prime example, Betelgeuse says he'd better flip to the business section of his paper and look for a
* [[Book Ends]]: Early on in the film, Adam reads the ''Handbook For the Recently Deceased'' and claims that it "reads like stereo instructions." Charles later says the same thing at the end of the film when he's reading a guide for living people with ghosts in their houses called "The Living and the Dead".
* [[By the Power of Greyskull]]: Saying "Betelgeuse" three times summons him into the "real world" to wreak his mischief, saying it three times again sends him back.
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