Beetlejuice: Handbook For The Recently Deceased (80's Classics)

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Burton 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), but Furst was committed to High Spirits, a choice he later regretted. This book consists of 200 lined pages on a cream background with title headers and numbers on each page. To enable personalised advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies. I also want to bring up the point that Juno seemed to have no problem with Lydia reading the handbook even if it’s alerting a human to the dead.

I bought one of these for my boyfriend's birthday and was so jealous, I decided to treat myself too! Horrified, Lydia summons Beetlejuice for help, but he will help her only on the condition that she marry him, enabling him to freely cause chaos in the mortal world. This was after the film had already fallen out of the top 10 and before the video release in October.The series ran for four seasons (the final season airing on Fox), from September 9, 1989, to December 6, 1991.

The producers also considered Dudley Moore and Sam Kinison for the role, but Geffen suggested Keaton.Retrospectively, McDowell was impressed at how many people made the connection between the film's title and the star Betelgeuse. Burton had gotten to know and worked with McDowell and Wilson (who co-wrote the script for "The Jar" - an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents that Burton directed).

When Lydia is kidnapped and forced to assist in a Neitherworld bank robbery, she is caught by the local ghost police. She had a problem with the fact Lydia took pictures of the Maitlands to show her parents but she says nothing about Lydia reading the handbook.

They’d be the kind of people able to understand something super over complicated as a handbook for dead people. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out. The Maitlands' caseworker, Juno, tells them they must remain in the house for the next 125 years on pain of a dire fate. Skaaren had Barbara and Adam encounter different limbos every time they leave their home, including the "clock world" and the sandworm world, identified as Saturn's moon Titan. Barbara and Adam try some hair-raising (literally) tricks, but in vain, because the living can’t see them.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times gave the film a negative review, writing 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". When Beetlejuice and his heavy metal band, Blades 'N' Tulips, decide to produce their own music video show, rock music is soon blasting from every TV set in Peaceful Pines.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". We take intellectual property concerns very seriously, but many of these problems can be resolved directly by the parties involved. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It also 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 of how Beetlejuice had died centuries earlier (he attempted to hang himself while drunk—having been rejected by a woman—only to mess it up and die slowly choking to death, rather than quickly by snapping his neck) and wound up working for Juno before striking out on his own as a "freelance bio-exorcist".