Beetlejuice Page #15

He slams the door, turns around. Then turns around again, and

jerks the door open. The ghosts are startled.

CHARLES:

And Delia is going to kill you

when she sees that you cut holes

in her Ralph Lauren sheets.

He slams the door again.

INT:
UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -- NIGHT

ADAM and BARBARA as ghosts under the sheets.

BARBARA:

Don't you think he could

have come up with something

a little more -- I don't

know -- scary?

ADAM:

Well, he said we'd have

to start slow.

At this moment, they are startled when the door of LYDIA's room

flies open. LYDIA jumps out and takes a whole series of

photographs of them, one after the other.

LYDIA:

Sick! Sexual perversion! You

guys never did this kind of thing

in New York. Total gross-out.

If you're going to do weird

sexual stuff you ought to stay

in your bedroom, okay? It's

so embarrassing.

LYDIA flies back into her room.

ADAM:

(Discouraged) Keep it trying?

BARBARA:

Might as well.

They open the door of the master bedroom and glide inside.

INT:
MASTER BEDROOM -- NIGHT

Television still going, DELIA asleep. ADAM and BARBARA go over

and stand beside the bed.

ADAM:

He said to moan.

Tentatively, they MOAN and GROAN. DELIA doesn't stir.

BARBARA:

I feel really stupid.

ADAM:

I know. But we're ghosts. And

ghosts are supposed to moan.

Moan louder.

They MOAN LOUDER, and more weirdly.

DELIA stirs, reaches over to the bedside table for the remote

control device, and without opening her eyes, turns off the

television set. Then she turns over, and is lost to the world.

BARBARA sighs. She and ADAM walk towards the door. When they

open it however, CATHY is standing there -- and both ADAM and

BARBARA jump backwards with yelps of fright.

CATHY:

Are you the guys who're hiding

out in the attic?

ADAM:

(Faked voice of terror) We're

ghosts.

BARBARA:

(Moans weirdly)

CATHY:

What do you look like under

there?

ADAM and BARBARA go out into the hall -- as if to keep from

waking DELIA with their conversation.

INT:
UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -- NIGHT

ADAM, BARBARA, and CATHY.

ADAM:

Aren't you scared?

CATHY:

Those are sheets. I'm not

afraid of sheets. Are you gross

under there? Are you "Night of

the Living Dead" under there?

ADAM:

What?

CATHY:

It's this gross movie.

BARBARA:

Young lady, if I had seen a ghost

at your age, I'd have been

frightened out of my wits. I'd

suggest you go to your room and

think about that. Come on, Adam.

BARBARA and ADAM continue down the hall with as much dignity as

they can muster under the circumstances. CATHY trails along

behind them, then steps on the dragging tails of their sheets.

The sheets slip off, exposing BARBARA and ADAM -- looking pretty

silly in their underwear.

CATHY:

You're not gross. Why were you

wearing the sheets?

BARBARA and ADAM whirl around.

BARBARA:

That's what we were told to do.

ADAM:

You can actually see us? Even

without the sheets?

Then ADAM and BARBARA realize that they are standing in their

underwear and grab the sheets to recover their modesty.

CATHY:

Is this like a trick question?

ADAM:

No, it's not a trick question.

Can you really see us?

BARBARA:

Tell the truth.

CATHY:

I always tell the truth, even

when it hurts and gets me in

trouble and people don't want

to hear it. Of course I can

see you.

BARBARA:

Nobody else can.

CATHY:

(Shrugging) Were you trying to

scare my mom or something?

BARBARA:

Something like that.

CATHY:

It won't work. She's sleeping

with Prince Valium tonight. I

stole the key to the attic, you

know.

INT:
ATTIC ROOM -- NIGHT

The mechanical moon makes its slow track through the heavens.

Moonlit, serene.

BACK TO SCENE --

ADAM, BARBARA, and CATHY stand just beyond the fringes of the

town, dimly lighted giants.

CATHY:

Where are the little figures

I saw in there yesterday?

ADAM:

That was us.

CATHY:

Really? How'd you make your-

selves shrink?

BARBARA:

It just happened. Sometimes

we have control, but most of

the time --

CATHY nods. Life is like that.

CATHY:

(To ADAM) You did this? You

carved all these little houses

and things?

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