42/17

I went to Juilliard

Scenario

The spirits of a dead couple are haunted by an obnoxious family who have moved into their home and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out. This is Michael Keaton’s favorite movie. Otho’s shoes when he’s painting the walls of the house change from red fireman’s elf shoes to white sneakers as he walks through the bathroom and then they change back to red elf shoes when he enters the next room. Adam: What are your qualifications? Beetlejuice: Oh. Well…

I travel a lot

I graduated from Harvard Business School. I lived through the Black Plague and had a great time during it. I’ve seen THE EXORCIST ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SEVEN TIMES, AND IT GETS FUNNIER EVERY TIME I SEE IT… NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT YOU’RE TALKING TO A DEAD GUY… NOW WHAT DO YOU THINK? Do You Think I’m Qualified?.

A print of the film has surfaced with some added/alternate scenes

The Geffen Company logo is accompanied by a creepy version of the song Banana Boat (sung by the film’s composer Danny Elfman). This version of the film is about 2 minutes shorter than the theatrical release, has some extra scenes and is missing others, 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. Instead of a desert, he sees an empty darkness filled with gears turning. Extra Scenes: There is an additional scene where Lydia is developing the photos she took of Adam and Barbra. Then, after her mother yells at her and blames her for poking holes in her sheets, Lydia runs upstairs and tries to convince her father that the photos are real.

Edited into Terror Toons (2002)

There is more in the scene where the adults search the attic for the ghosts, where we see the desert monster trying to eat Adam and Barbra while they are hanging out of the attic window. Finally, there is an extra 2-minute scene at the end where we see Lydia riding her bike home from school and her parents talking to Jane on the phone saying 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. The film ends with a final exterior shot of the house. Day-OTraditional, lyrics by William A. Attaway and Irving Burgie [Incorrectly credited as written by William A.

Recommended to anyone

Attaway & Irving Burgie (as Lord Burgess)] Performed by Harry Belafonte Courtesy of RCA Records. This is one of Tim Burton’s best films. Their sophomore effort follows the story of a couple (the Maitlands, played to good effect by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who accidentally fall off a bridge and become the target of an upper-class family (including a young but well-played Winona Ryder) and a strange but terrifying (to the max) ghost named Beetleguise (or Beetlejuice in a laugh track) played with immense complexity by Michael Keaton. Sure, this plot may sound a bit anticlimactic, being mostly jokes and not really a focused story, but so what? In a movie where you see sandworms from Saturn, shrimp that attach themselves after calypso, and a madman who has seen The Exorcist 167 times (insert quote here), why bother with a plot? So much fun every time I watch it.