Beetlejuice

Rating: 9/10 (10 March 2005)

Tim Burton (Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street) directs some good actors in a great and humorous horror comedy. Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis) are newlyweds. They live in a big house on a hill outside a town. One day they drive home after collecting something and die from falling off a bridge in their car and drowning. Somehow they came back, and then they discovered that they were dead. Now that they are dead their house has been bought by a new family. Delia (Catherine O'Hara) and Charles (Jeffrey Jones) with their daughter Lydia (Winona Ryder). Adam and Barbara are trying everything to get the family out of their house. Then they find a doorway to the dead world, it's here where they get advice from Juno (Sylvia Sidney). But they don't take her advice, they decide to let out a "bio exorcist" called Beetlegeuse/juice (Michael Keaton). When he is let out of his grave he causes all sorts of trouble for the newlyweds and the family. It won the Oscar for Best Makeup, and it was nominated the BAFTAs Best Make Up Artist and Best Special Effects. It was number 41 on The 100 Greatest Family Films (it's a 15!), and it was number 88 on 100 Years, 100 Laughs. Very good!