1988 · comedy · fantasy · horror
Beetlejuice
Directed by Tim Burton1h 32m1988
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Our read: Beetlejuice (1988) reads as a warm, kinetic, surreal comedy · fantasy · horror entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / fantasy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- surreal
- signature
- funny
Watching Beetlejuice tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How Beetlejuice feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want macabre comedy with Burton whimsy and chaotic ghost energy.”
Skip it tonight — You find loud, grotesque humor juvenile or irritating.
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