Thirty-six years after the events of the first film, the Deetz family returns home to Winter River following Charles Deetz's unexpected death. Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened, releasing Betelgeuse.
This movie contains 73 potentially triggering events.
At 4 minutes 45 seconds Taco the dog is shown on the fan whining. For those with auditory triggers there is whimpers and whines but not from being harm or hurt. More like scared doggy noises. I have auditory triggers by dog yelps and hurt sounds and it didn't affect me at all but just wanted to mention.
Also for the top comment mentioning a dog almost being hit by a car, that's from the first movie. Not this one.
Beetlejuice is poisoned by his wife. Then he hits her with an axe.
Lydia uses a boxing glove to punch her fiancé in anger towards the end of the movie.
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Throughout the entire scene where Rory and Lydia end up in Beetlejuice's "office", Beetlejuice messes with Lydia in a way that could be considered brutalizing. He forces her mouth shut and manifests a "baby" version of himself into her stomach, which causes the latter to swell quickly until it bursts violently. Though that entire scene is played as a gag, it personally shook me up quite a bit, as Lydia is shown to be distraught by the whole ordeal.
in the bathroom scene near the beginning of the movie (right after lydia sees beetlejuice for the first time), she throws a bottle of pills into the trashcan. Rory pulls them out and you see him slip one pill into her mouth and then one into his own. they are references later on in the movie as well during a scene in the attic.
A "cat lady" is seen in the afterlife's waiting room with her cats. Fortunately, they did not appear burned up like the lady who clearly died in a fire but don't let that fool you into thinking the scene is safe. In the next scene that they appeared in, they were eating her internal organs through a gaping stomach wound, which is extremely disturbing - it's one thing to watch Burton's type of humor when it's an impossible thing you know is fake, but this is something that, tragically, actually happens. This is definitely going to be a trigger for some cat lovers.
Three separate scenes. One as the movie returns to the afterlife roughly 35ish min in wrapped around a person, then later in the real world live snakes are seen in an aquarium and then shortly after the live snakes are held by a main character.
there are two or three beetles crawling on the desk in the first main scene we see of beetlejuice - it's the scene right after lydia comes to astrid's school. you see them crawl up the desk. later on in the movie during the wedding scene you can see a few beetles crawl up beetlejuice through his clothing.
References to Lydia being underage when Beetlejuice first started fixating on her.
Additionally, while not part of the story or a character, multiple images of real life convicted predator Jeffrey Jones are shown on film throughout the movie.
A major theme of the film is Beetlejuice's (and a separate man's) intent to marry a woman against her will. Beetlejuice threatens to expose sexual photos of someone else. A person is revealed to take advantage of vulnerable women for their money.
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When Lydia enters the house to help Astrid, a man turns around to reveal a circular saw embedded in his face (no blood, the wound is obscured by the guard)
Someone is thrown into hell, they fall screaming into the flames but it’s more played for laughs and not graphic at all, technically the character is dead already. I hate burning scenes and it was really not that bad :)
Most of Delores's limbs are shown separated from her body. She staples her legs back on.
A surfer is shown bit in half, so his legs were amputated/missing.
The scenes of the soul sucking demon taking people's souls echo this. The scenes are all foreshadowed by her picking up her victims, so can be avoided.
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Astrid unknowingly offers to trade her life for Jeremy's. She does this by reciting an incantation she is told will help her enter the afterlife. She does not know she is sacrificing her life for Jeremy's
The first jump scare happens during the janitor scene with Danny Devito when a piece of equipment sparks. Second jump scare happens in the afterlife when a character is looking through hanging clothes. There is a bit of build up to the second one.
Just saw a pre screening and happy to report the movie is safe!!
There are a few sort of gagging moments but no actually v*
I saw it in theaters so I don’t know the time stamps exactly.
About 10-15ish minutes it we see a janitor, you see him grab draino off the shelf and when he turns around there is some green fluid around his mouth, and he drinks some and we see more around his mouth. No v* but might be triggering for some.
About 40ish minutes in, when Lydia and Rory (I think was the name..?) are in beetlejuice’s office, beetlejuice does a couple silly gags and “spills his guts” no v* just his literally guts, it’s cheesy looking but the sound effects are wet, shortly after Rory jumps behind the couch and sort of gags and looks like he’s going to V* but doesn’t!
Last potentially triggering event is at the very end, maybe at about an hour and 30; we see a baby beetlejuice during an montage, it then quickly cuts to beetlejuice kinda spitting up like a baby does, it’s just some white fluid dripping out of his mouth, it’s super super quick! As an emetaphobe I didn’t find it triggering but worth mentioning just incase!
Nothing major, the "police" are campy and led by an actor who was playing a cop when he died. They do break through windows to try to save the day in a SWAT style thing and there is some discussion about how important they are, but overall they are failures.
The point of this question is whether someone is portrayed as mentally ill and violent. If you just assume that someone who's violent must be mentally ill, that kinda defeats the purpose.
No, no character is shown to be violent because of mental illness.
People talk about not believing Lydia a lot, and after a character sees beetlejuice, they say that "they just had the weirdest dream" and stuff like that
Flashing lightning across the screen throughout the opening credits, and sporadic flashing in the first few scenes. I can't comment on the rest of the film as I decided to leave the cinema 10 minutes in to prevent myself from having a seizure.
-Definitely better to watch this at home rather than the cinema if you have photosensitive epilepsy
That wasn't Beetlejuice saying it. This comment is targeted at children who are getting handed healthy foods instead of candy on Halloween which is fucked up but it's also being done by a blatantly unlikable character. Someone inflates which is a fat joke.
Minorities aren't necessarily misrepresented but there's only one major non-white actor, Jenna Ortega. Director Tim Burton is racist and claims that BIPOC "don't fit his vision" so this isn't a coincidence.
When Monica Bellucci puts herself back together, she is wearing a dress that covers her mid body, but there's some suggestive shots of her upper thigh and what not.
Not sad per se but, there's sort of a sting ending, where you think a bunch of these nice things are happening but they turn out to be fake, and beetlejuice is still around, and Lydia is still haunted by him and what not
Many ghosts in the afterlife are seen to have died in gory ways like being bitten in half, stabbed by a javelin and melted by hazardous waste. A demon pulls out his beating heart and innards. A dismembered ghost staples herself back together. Bloody detail when a demon attacks a doctor. Blood splatters on the screen when someone is attacked by a shark in an animated scene. As part of a wedding ceremony, the couple bite the heads off chickens.
Also for the top comment mentioning a dog almost being hit by a car, that's from the first movie. Not this one.