Beetlejuice

Beetlejuice is a 1988 comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse.[1] The plot revolves around a recently deceased couple, Adam Maitland and wife Barbara who seek the help of obnoxious "bio-exorcist" Betelgeuse in order, to remove the new owners of their quaint New England house, a family of metropolitan yuppies from New York City surnamed Deetz.

After the financial success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Burton was sent scripts and was becoming disheartened by their lack of imagination and originality. Beetlejuice's budget was $13 million with just one million given over to visual effects work. Considering the scale and scope of the effects, which included stop-motion, replacement animation, make-up effects, puppetry and blue screen, it was always Burton's intentions to make them similar to the B movies Burton grew up with as a child. Beetlejuice was released with a financial and critical success, garnering an animated television series and an unproduced sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.

Happily-married couple Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) decide to spend their holiday decorating their idyllic New England home. Returning from a trip to town Barbara swerves to avoid hitting a dog. Their car drives off a bridge into a river and then find themselves back at their house. A book entitled Handbook for the Recently Deceased reveals to them their predicament. Although they are now ghosts, they can remain in their home; if they try to leave, they end up in another dimension, a desert world populated by enormous sandworms.