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- Sex & Nudity (8)
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- Profanity (5)
- Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking (3)
- Frightening & Intense Scenes (9)
- Spoilers (5)
Certification
Sex & Nudity
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- A brief shot of a dancing possessed women bent over and shaking her butt
- Two ghosts make moaning noises that a girl mistakenly thinks is her parents during intercourse.
- A scene is shown in which Betelgeuse mentions that he hasn't gotten any "action" in 600 years, and then visits a brothel staffed by devil women who are scantily clad.
- Beetlejuice has a look up Barbara's dress by lifting her dress up with a stick, but nothing is shown. He also forcefully kisses her, and grabs her. All of this is when they first meet him.
- Beetlejuice caresses a dead girl's thigh.
- Betelgeuse grabs his crotch and hoists it up in a slightly offensive manner (intended to be a middle finger-type gesture) and makes a jerking-off hand gesture (implying masturbation) after saying "Nice f*ckin' model!"
- Betelgeuse as a giant snake slithers across the floor and chuckles as he slithers past Deelia looking up her skirt.
- Betelgeuse tries to force a teen girl to marry him (as a loophole). He acts suggestively throughout.
Violence & Gore
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- Several ghosts are shown throughout the movie, all of them resembling the way they died. A few are a bit bloody, one is clearly shown having slit wrists, however they are all harmless.
- All Violence is used for comedic effect. All of the violence also being cartoony and absurdist.
- A woman rips her face off, and her eyeballs hang from their sockets.
- A man stretches his face so that it looks like he's got a beak and you can't see his eyes. Soon after, a woman's eyes roll back bloodshot and she stretches her face into a crocodile mouth with eyes in.
- Two characters drown, but it occurs offscreen and is not graphic (it is actually very funny).
- A dead woman sits in a waiting room. She's been sawed in half. Her lower half sits on one side of a man, the upper half sits on the other side.
- One ghost looks like he's been flattened by a truck. He has tire marks across his "body" and he slips into a crevice in a wall. Rather funny.
- We see a close-up shot of a housefly being grabbed by Betelgeuse and pulled into his lair. Nothing else is seen, but then we hear what is obviously Betelgeuse belching.
- Betelgeuse eats a fly as a reference to the 1958 horror movie "The Fly (1958)".
- A woman / ghost refers to having an "accident" and holds up her wrists - which had been slit, suggesting she died by suicide.
- A menacing giant snake with a human head and long sharp teeth holds a man upside down over a stair railing, then drops him.
- In one scene Lydia contemplates suicide and writes a note saying she has plummeted off a bridge.
Profanity
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- "Hell" and "Damnit" can be heard a few times.
- Two uses of "fuck", one isn't clearly heard like the other, and two of "shit".
- Two uses of "Jesus"
- One use of "pissed off"
- "Goddamn" is said at the very beginning of the film.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
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- Overall smoking is depicted as an act which leads to a violent and unpleasant death. A ghost woman who was a smoker in life has a tracheotomy wound in her neck and blows the smoke from her cigarettes through it. Another ghost is depicted as a horrible charred skeleton/body, the implication being that he burned to death when a cigarette caught his bed on fire.
- Several living people smoke cigarettes and drink cocktails at a dinner party.
- A man is offered a cigarette by a comically burned and charred animated corpse.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
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- A man stretches his face into a hideous and frightening beak looking face, with long and stretched empty eye sockets. He then grows eyes on his fingers. In the same scene a woman stretches her face into what looks like a combination of a crocodile mouth and a human face. Her eyeballs are also in her mouth.
- A group of people start unwillingly dancing in a comical way, but suddenly and unexpectedly, the bowls of shrimp in front of them shoot out arms made of shrimp, which grab their faces and throw them against the wall.
- Beetlejuice transforms into a gigantic snake with sharp teeth and enormous eyes. He then chases a group of people around a house.
- A woman steps through a door which transports her to a strange dimension that looks like a desert, but suddenly an enormous striped snaked shows up.
- A group of sculptures come to life in a comical but frightening manner. They then hold two people.
- A short and nasty alien like creature randomly appears through an opening in the wall.
- This movie is more funny than it is scary
- Some people may find Beetlejuice's appearance somewhat frightening.
- An man speaks crudely about suicide, first saying "I hope it wasn't another of your dreary suicide attempts" and then "Do you know what happens to people who commit suicide? In the afterlife, they become civil servants!" To which several characters laugh. In the same scene, he also says that a woman is "just upset because someone dropped a house on her sister"
Spoilers
Violence & Gore
- Around the end, Beetlejuice gets eaten by a sandworm. Later, we see him in the Netherworld waiting room, where he gets his head shrunken.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
- Two spirits are exercised in a ritual and begin to turn into green wrinkled stone like versions of themselves and start falling apart and crumbling into bits but they are then restored.
- Beetlejuice is eaten by a giant snake and then has his head shrunken in the afterlife.
- Otho performs a seance on Adam and Barbara, that causes them to instantly wither and age grotesquely. Barbara's hands and feet crumble to dust, and Adam's jawbone falls off. They are later restored.
- In the Twisting Corridor in the underworld Barbara and Adam see lost souls rising and screaming in a hellish and psychedelic nightmare world. A janitor leans in and creepily explains that these people have been exorcised. What makes it even worse is that this is a fate that Adam and Barbara could have suffered later in the movie.
