BeetleJuice

Today I thought I'd talk a little bit about one of my favorite movies.BeetleJuice.
BeetleJuice is probably Tim Burton's most popular movie. In fact Tim Burton is often credited as the creation of BeetleJuice by most people.

The story of BeetleJuice was created by Michael McDowell and Larry Wilson.
McDowell's script is more violent then what we got in the final version of BeetleJuice that we all know and love.The Maitlands' car crash is a lot more violent in McDowell's script.In the original script Barbara's arm gets crushed.A reference to this remains in the final version when Barbara Barbara says that her arm feels cold.
The character of BeetleJuice was originally going to be winged demon who looks like a Middle Eastern man. He wanted to rape Lydia instead of marrying her.
There also would have been a second Deetz child named Cathy.

All in all it sounds like the original script would have had more horror elements. There are some cool ideas in the original scripts, but I think that the final version that we ended up getting was for the best.