Beetlejuice is Burton's seminal and programmatic work

Rating: Null/10 (16 February 1999)

Beetlejuice was Tim Burton's first mainstream film to show the dark yet colourful style which was to become his trademark. The commercial successes of Batman, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas show how his sense of alienation and the comic developed, but Beetlejuice is where it began and as such represents all that makes Burton a great director.