Warner Bros. originally wanted Beetlejuice to be titled ‘House Ghosts’.
Tim Burton jokingly suggested to name the film ‘Scared Sheetless’, and Warner Bros. actually considered it.
A majority of Michael Keaton’s lines as Beetlejuice were improvised.
Despite the movie’s title being centered around Beetlejuice, as a character, he only shows up in the original movie for around 17 minutes in total!
Barbara and Adam Maitland have a bumper sticker that says “I brake for animals”- an ironic easter egg foreshadowing their deaths.
Beetlejuice wears four watches.
With a budget of $15 million, only $1 million went to special effects.
Though the movie is set in Connecticut, it was primarily filmed in Vermont.
Beetlejuice’s carousel hat has a Jack Skellington figure atop of it, predating The Nightmare Before Christmas by 5 years.
A Beetlejuice sequel titled “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian” was planned in 1990, and a script for it was written. However, it (thankfully) never made it to production.
Beetlejuice was the first movie to be shipped through Netflix in 1998.
The “Nice fuckin’ model!” line was apparently improvised by Keaton, as the tree he kicked down was not intentionally done. The line was supposedly directed at the set designers, but remained in the movie due to how funny it was.
All ghosts in the movie look the way they did as they died, with the exception of the Maitlands, who for most of the movie remain dry despite having drowned. It was later revealed that this was because having Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin wet in every scene would be a nuisance.
Beetlejuice is my husbando. This one is arguably the truest fact of them all...
some fun facts about the movie that you may (or may not) know!
