Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Tim Burton’s 1988 Classic, watched for the first time, only 32 years late.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Say it three times and, well you know what happens. 32 years after the careers of Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Alec Baldwin and Winona Ryder were catapulted star-ward, I watched the film that launched them for the first time.

It’s interesting to look back and watch old films you never got around to seeing. They aren’t the trips down memory lane they are for others, but fresh faced glimpses into the past, a chance to see why and how these people at the top of the credits roll today got there in the first place.

Like Winona Ryder. Only 17 at the time, it’s no wonder she became a star. What later happened was still to happen, but it’s clear for all to see the charisma and charm she would later wow audiences with when more leading roles came her way come the 90’s. Fast forward 3 decades and she has had a minor resurgence via Stranger Things, but still nowhere near the extent of Robert Downey Jr’s adventures in the Iron Man suit. Shame. She was damn good at acting.

Directed by Tim Burton, and one of his now rare Johnny Depp-less films, the film itself is very interesting. A great concept, and an example of the unique creation Hollywood just doesn’t seem…