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Who is Beetlejuice? One of the main characters of the 1988 horror-fantasy comedy film Beetlejuice, played by Michael Keaton. In the story, a couple who recently died in a car crash become ghosts trapped in their idyllic country house, haunting the place. Their home is sold to the Deetz family from New York, made up of Charles, a former real estate developer; his wife Delia, a sculptor; and their gothic teenage daughter Lydia. With her designer Otho, Delia plans to remodel the house. The ghost couple tries to scare the family but fails and hides in the attic. They are contacted by a spirit who calls himself a freelance bio-exorcist, claiming he can get rid of the living. The couple is warned by Juno, a social worker from the afterlife, not to summon Beetlejuice, and that they should scare the Deetz family away themselves. Despite the warning and forming emotional bonds with young Lydia, after a second failed attempt, they summon Beetlejuice by calling his name three times. He appears, causing chaos and planning to marry Lydia as his way of escaping the Neitherworld, the land of the dead, inhabited by ghosts and undead, so he can wreak more havoc. Exploring the Beetlejuice statue Surrounded by supernatural references from his grim universe, a mischievous and trickster ghost enjoys laughing while holding one of his skeletal concrete gargoyles on the tombstone of his grave. Carrying a monstrous snake on his left arm with a small head resembling his own, with horrendous features—a form he takes to scare living humans—the corpse that eats bugs, including flies and beetles, is dressed in a black-and-white striped suit and wearing boots. He steps on the coiled body of a so-called sandworm, a bizarre creature ironically sharing his colors, originating from a dimension made of a strange desert, and one of the few monsters he is truly afraid of. Iron Studios proudly pre
