Beetlejuice

It’s only rated PG, but isBeetlejuicestill too scary for kids?

Sodon’t go intoBeetlejuiceexpecting a kid-friendly film.

Never mind the “f-bomb”, the scares alone will be too much for young children.

Article image

When the Maitlands go to the otherworldly waiting room, they meet several dead people.

One has cut her own wrists, and the dark red slices are clearly visible.

Another ghost has her throat gruesomely slit.

Beetlejuice and Lydia from the sequel with Barbara in her monster form from the first movie

Custom Image by Debanjana Chowdhury

One ghost is sawed in half, with her top half next to her bottom half.

At one point, Barbara (Genna Davis) pretends to hang herself in a closet.

She then tears off her face, revealing the skeleton underneath and her eyeballs hang loosely.

Miss Argentina shows Adam and Barbara her wrist in Beetlejuice’s Neitherworld Waiting Room

The more realistic deaths might also be a bit too much.

He’s really more a demon than anything.

There’s not a lot of good with him.

Delia and Astrid from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice are in front of the Day-O scene in Beetlejuice

He’s a very bad guy, and that alone is enough to scare very little kids.

Betelgeuse’s aims are directly opposite Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara’s.

What’s more, they even scare Lydia which makes them all the more spooky.

Michael Keaton in Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice.

This Roald Dahl adaptation is directly aimed at kids but has some very frightening moments.

If a kid can handle this, thenBeetlejuicecould potentially be on the table.

Your Rating

Your comment has not been saved

Cast

Anjelica Huston in The Witches

Betelgeuse (Michael Keaton) and Lydia (Winona Ryder) looking at the camera in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Headshot Of Catherine O’Hara

Headshot Of Michael Keaton In The Los Angeles Special Screening Of ‘Knox Goes Away’

Movies

Beetlejuice