Beetle Juice

Michael McDowell (story) &Larry Wilson, Warren Skaaren 1985

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094721/

The spirits of a deceased couple are harassed by an unbearable family that has moved into their home, and hire a malicious spirit to drive them out.











                              BEETLE JUICE


                               (2nd Draft)



                                   by

                            Michael McDowell




                           based on a story by

                     Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson



                           A Pecos Production
                                   For
                           The Geffen Company



                               1 June 1985













     EXT: WINTER RIVER, CONNECTICUT -- DAY

     A  bucolic New England town,  but rather too clean and neat to be
     entirely real.  There is no visible population.

     Ominous, vibrating music.

     On Main Street, a banner proclaims:

                                COME TO THE
                          INDEPENDENCE DAY PICNIC
                               ON THE GREEN
                         WINTER RIVER, CONNECTICUT

     The   camera,   flying   over  downtown  and  several   different
     neighborhoods,  sweeps  over a rickety bridge crossing a  rapidly
     flowing  stream,  and  then up a hill to  a  large  old-fashioned
     house.   The  house stands alone on this prominence,  overlooking
     the rest of the town.  The camera lingers.

     SUDDENLY A GIANT DADDY LONGLEGS SPIDER --

     mounts  the  crest of the hill behind the  house,  pauses  for  a
     moment,  and  then starts to climb over the Victoria