Burton at his best!

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2006)

When Tim Burton chooses a film to direct, you know he'll put his own controversial twist on it! He's a very dark and eccentric person, so his persona rubs off on his films. Burton does best with films that contain very dark undertones, in this case death and the afterlife! Indeed he seems to excel at these themes for example The nightmare before Christmas and Corpse bride! Almost all his big directorial hits have revolved around macabre and Gothic styling!
Beetlejuice is one of the best examples of this and sees newlywed couple Barbara & Adam Maitland involved in a car accident (see what I mean)! They return home, soon after and realise that they were killed and are now ghosts doomed for eternity to haunt their New England home! All is well for a while as they live out their afterlives in peace, until the Deety family move in. A troubled family to say the least! The father is a down to Earth kind of guy, the step-mother an eccentric modern artist and the daughter a goth with a death wish! So in order to expel these newcomers from their house the Maitland's hire a freelance bio-exorcist (Polterguiest) by the name of Beetlejuice. Although it soon appears that Beetlejuice has his own devilish agenda!
Tim Burton's classic comedy/horror is dark and extremely funny stuff, with every character expertly cast especially Keaton in the title role!