Beetlejuice (1988)

Beetlejuice rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.4/10· 418K votes

Rotten Tomatoes83%

Metacritic71%

TMDb7.4/10· 8K votes

With 83% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.4/10 on IMDb and 71/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been positive.

About Beetlejuice

A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.

Cast of Beetlejuice

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  Alec Baldwin

  as Adam

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  Geena Davis

  as Barbara

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  Winona Ryder

  as Lydia

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  Catherine O'Hara

  as Delia

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  Jeffrey Jones

  as Charles

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  Michael Keaton

  as Betelgeuse

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  Glenn Shadix

  as Otho

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  Sylvia Sidney

  as Juno

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  Patrice Martinez

  as Receptionist

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  Dick Cavett

  as Bernard

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  Robert Goulet

  as Maxie Dean

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  Maree Cheatham

  as Sarah Dean

Beetlejuice facts

Budget

$15M

Box office

$84.6M

Collection

Beetlejuice Collection

Our take on Beetlejuice

Tim Burton's 1988 comedy-fantasy is a gleefully macabre haunted-house tale told from the ghosts' side. A recently deceased New England couple, unwilling to share their beloved home with a pretentious New York family that moves in, enlist a manic, self-styled demon exorcist to scare the newcomers off. Burton treats death as an absurd bureaucratic afterlife and packs the film with handmade, gonzo visual invention, its humor tipping between the ghoulish and the goofy. It suits viewers who love oddball dark comedy and practical-effects strangeness over polish or scares. Anarchic, warm and endlessly inventive, it's a cult favorite that turns the afterlife into a playground of gleeful weirdness.