I posted this on Facebook earlier, but I felt like putting it here too (now with bonus content!) Keep in mind that this is coming from someone for whom the original is a contender for “most watched movie in my life”. It’s the first movie I remember seeing in the theater (as Geena Davis pulling her face off is burned into my brain). I wasn’t a fan of the cartoon, so I don’t have that lore rattling around in my head. But to be clear–I have my biases (and I’ll attempt to be spoiler-free). There is… there is a lot going on in this movie. Four stories are fighting for…
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What is Saturn from “Beetlejuice”?
So here’s a question I’ve been wondering about since I was seven years old. What the hell is that place in Beetlejuice with the desert and the two-faced sandworms and the moons and time apparently moving faster? What do we know? Well, our first glimpse happens when dead-Alec Baldwin walks off his front porch. The camera whips around weirdly and he’s there. It’s like he’s on a different world–dark blue sky, green planet, weird stone coral-like structures (I assume they’re stone). Something is moving in the sand, something serpentine. He spends about five seconds there. Then dead-Geena Davis pulls him back on the porch and tells him he was gone…
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My Kindertrauma: Faces of Death (Beetlejuice/Poltergeist/Indiana Jones)
No, not actually “Faces of Death”. I wouldn’t learn about that franchise until I was in high school. And then it was more fun figuring out which vignettes were fake and which were real (this was before YouTube). No these are the terrifying moments about kindertrauma to someone’s face, usually in the form of it coming off. The first was in Beetlejuice. I can’t believe my mom took me to see this in the theater. I was seven years old. Did I express some kind of interest in seeing this? I must have. It was the same director as Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. Maybe she just wanted to get me…
