Warner Bros. Entertainment · The Geffen Film Company · Q65557474 · 92 min
Box office
$73.7M worldwide on a $15M budget
Honors
Academy Awards — 1 win, 1 nominationKids' Choice Award — 1 nominationAll 1 wins · 2 nominations on record
Academy Awards: Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Scholarship
Named in the title of 10 peer-reviewed works
Examples
Beetlejuice, 2006
Cosa Nostra #33 – BeetleJuice — Institutional Repository of the National University Open and Distance UNAD (Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia), 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice may have problems – but it’s Tim Burton’s best film in years, 2024
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FILM NOTES
Beetlejuice arrived from Warner Bros. in 1988, a Tim Burton film that turned the afterlife into a screwball domestic comedy. It became a sleeper hit, praised for its inventive practical effects, its anarchic tone, and Michael Keaton's manic turn as the title ghost, cementing Burton's early reputation as a director unafraid of the strange and the macabre while still courting mainstream audiences.
Harry the Hunter is one of Betelgeuse's many guises, a costume conjured mid-film as the "bio-exorcist" tries out personas to frighten the Maitlands and the Deetzes. Collectors prize this identity for its absurd theatricality, a safari-suited hunter persona that epitomizes the character's shapeshifting mischief. A cell bearing this name preserves a single frame of that transformation, a fragment of animation history tied directly to Keaton's most inventive comic sequence in the film.
Authentication Findings8 checks
Consistent with a 35mm theatrical release print of Beetlejuice (1988).
Gauge
35mm, confirmed by four perforations per frame visible on both edges; the strip holds three frames.
Perforations
Four per frame on both visible edges; spacing appears even and the punched corners are rounded and cleanly cut.
Soundtrack
A variable-area optical track is visible running along the bottom edge beside the perforations, appearing as a dual-bilateral (two-track) waveform pattern.
Edge print
Not visible in this capture at sufficient resolution to read any key numbers or manufacturer text.
Base & colour
The base shows a warm cream-yellow tint consistent with an acetate safety base; the dye image reads with a slight warm-amber cast.
Projection history
Light vertical scratching is visible across the frame area, consistent with a print that has passed through a projector gate.
Picture
Positive colour image; the three frames appear to be consecutive frames from a single continuous shot, consistent with a release print of Beetlejuice (1988).
Era check
The dual-bilateral variable-area optical track, warm acetate base tint, and positive colour print format are all consistent with a theatrical release print from the late 1980s.
Read from the original intake capture shown below. Observations only — film is authenticated, not graded.
This original motion picture film element has been examined and authenticated by Crown Grading in partnership with National Film Vault, and encapsulated for archival preservation.
Why so little survivesRelease prints were leased to theaters, not sold. When the run ended they went back to the distributor to be destroyed, and most were. What collectors hold today came from the prints that escaped that order, and no new 35mm prints of these films are being struck.
CROWN SERIAL 000063312
Original Film CaptureAs received
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