Deze week vier de Tim Burton horror komedie Beetlejuice zijn vijfentwintig jarig bestaan. Deze film heeft een hoop trivia om zich heen hangen en was het dus tijd voor de website IndieWire om dit artikel te maken met feitjes over de film die je waarschijnlijk niet wist. Dingen zoals:

3. Warner Bros. Hated The Title
The title for "Beetlejuice" is a play on the character Betelgeuse's name, which in turn based on the Betelgeuse star, which is housed in the infinite blackness of space but in the same constellation as the more famous star Orion. (Screenwriter McDowell was surprised anyone picked up on the reference.) Warner Bros, however, didn't think there was anything clever or funny or interesting about the movie's title, and begged Tim Burton to allow them to change it. He refused.

The alternate title the studio had come up with was "House Ghosts," which, at the very least, beats out "Anonymous Haunted House Story 39480," which more or less conveys the same general mood and aura. Burton, the story goes, suggested "Scared Sheetless" as a joke (a reference to the scene where the Maitlands attempt to scare the Deetzes out of the house by wearing bed sheets - something they consider spooky but comes off as utterly laughable). Much to Burton's horror, the studio actually liked his idea, and tried to rename the movie. Burton finally put his foot down and said that the movie would be called "Beetlejuice." Once and for all.