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Beetlejuice (1988 ; 92 Brain Eater) : This is one of those movies I can watch all the time. It was directed by Tim Burton and written by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren. It has a really great cast made up of Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glenn Shadix, Sylvia Sidney, and so on. It has an amazing soundtrack by Danny Elfman. This is one of those films that has a really great story line for what it is. With a  budget of $13 million it grossed close to $74 million. The film spawned an animated television series that was produced by Burton. There were plans for a sequel "Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian" but it never got made for many different reasons. 
  This is the story of Adam and Barbara who live in a beautiful house in New England. One day while driving home they are involved in a terrible auto accident. They manage to walk home only to discover later that they have died and now haunt their house. When their house is purchased by an out of state family, they feel their home is threatened by the over-the-top artists wife and real-estate idea-man husband. Their only relief is the Gothic daughter of the family. Their attempts at scaring the family out of the house are ignored or laughed at. Finally they fall to the temptation to use the people-exorcizer Beetle Juice. When they find his tactics too dangerous, they attempt to contain him and save the family they were trying to boot.