

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. The house is sold and the new owners, the Deetz family, arrive from New York City.

When Adam attempts to leave the house, he ends up in a strange and otherworldly desert-like landscape populated by enormous sandworms. They begin to suspect they did not survive the car accident. After returning home, she and Adam notice they now lack reflections and find the book Handbook for the Recently Deceased. As they are driving home from a trip to town, Barbara swerves to avoid a dog and the car plunges into the river. In Winter River, Connecticut, Barbara and Adam Maitland decide to spend their vacation decorating their idyllic country home. The film's success spawned an animated television series, video games, and a 2018 stage musical. 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 plot revolves around a recently deceased couple who, as ghosts haunting their former home, contact Betelgeuse (pronounced and occasionally spelled Beetlejuice in the film), an obnoxious and devious " bio- exorcist" from the Netherworld, to scare away the house's new inhabitants.īeetlejuice was a critical and commercial success, grossing US$74.2 million from a budget of US$15 million.

Pictures, and starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the titular character. Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film directed by Tim Burton, written by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren, produced by The Geffen Company, distributed by Warner Bros.
