Beetlejuice
This article contains mentions of suicide and end .
Beetlejuice ’s hellish wait way could only derive from the mind of Tim Burton , and the various ghosts met there require a guide explaining their appearances and manners of death – especially forwards of its return inBeetlejuice 2 . The 1988 film is filled with memorable sequences , butone consequence that really stupefy out is the Neitherworld waiting room panorama . This sequence feel Adam and Barbara meeting their afterlife caseworker , and they have to wait with various other spirit whose appearances betoken some gruesome death . The location and some of these ghosts then comically return inBeetlejuice ’s ending , after Beetlejuice is cast back into the afterlife ’s realm .
After 36 years of audiences waiting , the original 1988 pic received a follow-up in the form of 2024’sBeetlejuice 2 . The Tim Burton - directed sequel is confirm brought back several originalBeetlejuicecharacters and cast extremity , let in Michael Keaton as the titulary poltergeist , Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz , and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz . While a few surprise character returns are still expect , Beetlejuice 2also have the return of the Neitherworld waiting roomand it ’s iconic inhabitants , with several returning from the 1988 master copy .
trace
Cause Of Death
Juno
self-destruction
Miss Argentina
Harry the Hunter
hunt accident
Witch Doctor of the Church
Unknown
Magician ’s Assistant
saw in half
Char Man
Fire
Man In Hospital robe
Open - heart surgery
Purple - Skinned Man
foul to death
Diver / Swimmer
Shark attack
Man With Bone In Neck
char In Sleeping cup of tea
Rattlesnake bite
College Football Team
Bus crash
courier
Ran over by fomite
Green - Skinned Man
shade Standing Against The Wall
15Juno (Sylvia Sydney)
Cause Of Death: Suicide
The only trace fromBeetlejuice ’s Neitherworld waiting room who plays a supporting role in the movie is Juno , as she serves as Adam and Barbara Maitland ’s caseworker . Thefilm reveals that people who die by self-destruction become civil servants in the afterlife , as the Neitherworld operates under a bureaucratic organization . Juno also reveal a fundamental detail that ab initio suggested Beetlejuice maybe also took his own living , since he used to be her helper before give out rogue . However , inBeetlejuice 2his method acting of death was retconned , as it ’s now confirmed he was toss off by his wife .
Sylvia Sydney ’s Juno is one of the most normal appear booze in the Neitherworld , with her dying doing little to importantly alter her appearance in the hereafter . While her manner of last is never explicitly stated , Juno appears to have tragically died by self-annihilation via having her pharynx slue , as the skunk from her cigarettes often blows from the scratch in her neck .
14Miss Argentina (Patrice Martinez)
Another meaning employee in the afterlife ’s bureaucratism is Miss Argentina ( play by Patrice Martinez ) , who advance her form of address in 1939 . It should be noted that she ’s not base on a real person , as the veridical Miss Argentina contention seemingly did n’t have any pageant from 1938 until 1953 . She seems to have a cheery disposition despite her fate in the afterlife , and seems to amazingly enjoy her employment ( unlike Juno ) .
Miss Argentina do as the receptionist in the Neitherworld waiting room , and becomes disappointed with Adam and Barbara when have to explain to the duo therules in theHandbook for the Recently Deceased . Like Juno , Miss Argentina ’s effort of death was suicide , which is gruesomely indicated by her cut wrists in the movie . It ’s not disclose why the Receptionist inBeetlejuicekilled herself , though given her costume it ’s likely because she fall behind the Miss World pageant .
13Harry The Hunter
Cause Of Death: Hunting Accident
Among the most memorable ghosts inBeetlejuice ’s Neitherworld waiting room isHarry the Hunter , who apparently go in a hunting fortuity . Still holding his hunting paraphernalia , including his lid and ordnance , in the afterlife , Harry the Hunter is first introduce when Barbara is scare by his shrunken head . He then returns inBeetlejuice ’s terminal moments when sitting next to the titular fibre , with the cause of his shrivelled head being revealed when Beetlejuice himself has his question cringe by the Witch Doctor next to them .
found on Michael Keaton ’s teases forBeetlejuice 2 ’s story , it ’s potential that Harry the Hunter could make an appearance in the subsequence . Keaton divulge thatBeetlejuice 2has a " shrunken nous room , " whichintroduced various other ghost ( such as Bob ) who were hexed to have a wizen head in the wait elbow room .
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12The Witch Doctor
Cause Of Death: Unknown
At the conclusion ofBeetlejuice , Beetlejuice find himself sitting between the Voodoo Shaman ( credit as the Witch Doctor ) and Harry the Hunter in the waiting elbow room . Michael Keaton ’s character , of course of instruction , makes a dread error when he distracts the Witch Doctor and steals his just the ticket turn , go the latter character to use magic to shrink his head .
The Witch Doctor does n’t have any spoken lines , but is still part of a screaming terminal joke that ensured theBeetlejuiceending held up to the rest of the movie ( and left room for a sequel ) . It’sunclear how the Shaman pop off inBeetlejuicewithout any visual scars , which signify it could have potentially been due to natural movement . However , open by his proximity to Harry the Hunter ( and the fact he did the same toBeetlejuice ) , it does seem to be imply that the Witch Doctor is responsible for to for Harry ’s shrunken heading .
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11Magician’s Assistant
Cause Of Death: Cut In Half During Magic Show Accident
Memorably have inBeetlejuice ’s net sequence , the Magician ’s Assistant has one of the more gory dying of those regard the waiting room . However , she was also one of the most humorous , as the way she died as obvious in a unmarried coup d’oeil . Not only that , but it ’s one of the few deaths which would more than likely make the word if it happened . The low-spirited - shaded ghost’scause of demise was being saw in half during an accident at a magic show , indicating one of the most well - known magic tricks of sawing a woman in half in a box went horribly incorrect .
While in the Neitherworld waiting way , the Magician ’s Assistant pose with her trunk - up on one couch shock while her detach leg are position on the next shock absorber over , still wearing her red getup from the doomed magical show . At one gunpoint , she hitsMichael Keaton ’s Beetlejuice characterwith a account book because he begins touching her legs .
10Char Man (Douglas Turner)
Cause Of Death: Fire
Credited as the Char Man ( Douglas Turner ) , one of the few ghosts inBeetlejuice ’s wait elbow room who receives melody is a man who was burned active . With the deceased man still smoke in the hereafter , it’simplied that he may have died by starting a ardour with his cigarettes , which seems to be more probable after he ironically offers Adam Maitland a bullet .
Of all theBeetlejuicewaiting room ghostwriter , Char Man is the only one who ’s gently unsettling to attend at , even if he seems all friendly . His body apepared burn to a crisp , with a meaning percentage of his body mass missing . Char Man is certainly an instance of how , in the world of Tim Burton’sBeetlejuice , the way a person come out at the time of their decease peg with them throughout the afterlife .
Char Man is certainly an example of how , in the world of Tim Burton’sBeetlejuice , the agency a person appears at the time of their death control stick with them throughout the hereafter .
9Man In Hospital Robes
Cause Of Death: Died During Open-Heart Surgery
Though he does n’t receive any line , one of the ghosts have inBeetlejuice ’s wait room isa man who ostensibly died in open - bosom surgery . The man is condemn to wear his hospital gown with his fondness exposed through the rip in the surgical gown throughout the remainder of his meter in the hereafter , which does n’t seem to be too comfortable .
This ghost is also still don his shower cap from his surgery as he reads his transcript of theHandbook for the Recently Deceased , suggesting he may be as recently utter asGeena Davis and Alec Baldwin’sBeetlejuicecharacters . Dying on the operating table is a fear many viewers have , and so whileBeetlejuiceisn’t a horror movie , there is something unsettling about seeing the Man In Hospital Robes in the wait room sequence .
8Purple-Skinned Man
Cause Of Death: Choking
One man who seem in the Neitherworld waiting room while Adam and Barbara are awaiting their appointment with Juno has violet - tinted skin . The human , who has curt contraband hair’s-breadth , appears to have died by choking or some sorting of asphyxiationdue to the violet tint of his flesh . However , since he does n’t talk and ( like the other waiting elbow room ghosts ) he background is n’t elaborated on , this is purely shot - work .
The discoloration of his pelt also suggests this particular shade could have drowned . The Purple - Skinned Man only appears briefly in theBeetlejuicewaiting room scene , but can be seen sitting between the Magician ’s Assistant and Harry the Hunter while Adam and Barbara ab initio talk to the wait elbow room ’s receptionist , Miss Argentina .
7Diver/Swimmer
Cause Of Death: Shark Attack
Among the more unexpected Death figure inBeetlejuice ’s Neitherworld waiting way is aman who died from a shark attack . The character only appears concisely when Adam and Barbara are hold off to see Juno , but it ’s extremely memorable as the wraith is still wear his diving mask and swimming trunks while holding onto his oxygen tank , with the shark that killed him still hang from his leg . The greenish - tint shade was so memorable that he even made it intoBeetlejuice ’s prescribed card , as he ’s assure with the shark dangle from his leg while sitting on the Maitland / Deetz home ’s Winter River house .
The greenish - tinted ghost was so memorable that he even made it intoBeetlejuice ’s official poster , as he ’s seen with the shark dangle from his ramification while sit down on the Maitland / Deetz crime syndicate ’s Winter River house .
peculiarly , it seems that the diver ’s tragical death from the 1988 pic could receive a callback in Tim Burton ’s upcomingBeetlejuice 2film . It ’s been confirmed thatJeffrey Jones ' Charles Deetz is dead inBeetlejuice 2,but the promotional materials have n’t revealed exactly how his dying came to be other than that it was an unexpected tragedy . However , the tease of Charles ' funeral scene inBeetlejuice 2 ’s prevue give a glimpse of the quality ’s headstone , which is in the soma of a shark louver . As such , it ’s possible that , like the man in the original movie , Charles Deetz may have die from a shark attack .
6Man With Chicken Bone In Neck
Cause Of Death: Choking On A Chicken Bone
At least two spook in theBeetlejuiceNeitherworld waiting room appear to have died by choking based on the briefly - sport characters ' appearing . One trace is even seen with a volaille pearl still lodged in his cervix after choking to end on it , with this deceased humanity also still get a chicken bib wrapped around his neck .
consider the osseous tissue is deposit in his neck opening , this implore the question of how the ghost will be able-bodied to speak to his hereafter welfare worker . woefully , the deceased man ’s appearance means he ’ll always be prompt of the repast that killed him while spending his remaining allocated sidereal day in the afterlife . Like the Magician ’s Assistant , this peculiar waiting room spectre has one of the of the most instantly hilarious character designs .
