Beetlejuice Page #30

ADAM:

I don't know how we're

going to fight him.

We don't even know to get

out of the model.

BARBARA thinks a moment, then looks up the hill to their house.

BARBARA:

I think I know. Come

on.

She gets up and walks briskly across the grass, in the direction

of their home.

INT:
KITCHEN -- NIGHT

It looks wrecked. The ARTIST from earlier staggers into the

kitchen, with another victim in tow. The victim is drunk, and

knocks over a glass on the counter. It smashes it on the floor.

The ARTIST heads for the laundry room, but when she tries to open

the door, it's slammed shut again, and from inside comes

CHARLES's voice.

CHARLES (o.s.)

It's occupied.

INT:
LAUNDRY ROOM -- NIGHT

Family conference. DELIA, CHARLES, OTHO, and LYDIA. DELIA is

comforting a weeping LYDIA.

LYDIA:

It was horrible. Oh God,

it was the worst thing

I've ever seen in my life.

CHARLES:

IRS agents do not punch

people in the stomach. I

just know it.

OTHO:

Delia, I looked in the closet

upstairs. It's empty, but

there was a gray wig and a

flowered dress on the floor.

DELIA:

But I know that woman

was dead.

The family simultaneously come to the same conclusion.

LYDIA:

It's the ghosts.

INT:
CATHY'S ROOM -- NIGHT

CATHY is kneeling on the floor at the side of her bed. Beside

her is a plate heaped with fancily-cut raw vegetables.

She reaches beneath the bed, and pulls out the box with the

squirrel inside.

CATHY:

Please be all right.

She opens the lid of the box.

INSIDE THE BOX --

is the SQUIRREL FROM HELL. It is a snarling, foaming beast with

BEETLE JUICE's COLD YELLOW EYES.

Before CATHY even has the chance to scream, IT LEAPS.

CUT:

INT:
LAUNDRY ROOM -- NIGHT

DELIA:

Oh God, you don't they'd

hurt Cathy, do you?

LYDIA:

But they like her!

CHARLES:

She's a little girl.

LYDIA:

I'll go look for her.

DELIA:

Are you all right?

LYDIA:

I'm okay. We have to

find Cathy.

LYDIA leaves.

DELIA:

(To Otho) How are you

on exorcisms?

OTHO:

I know a few things we

could try. But I'd

suggest that you get

the guests out of here

before midnight.

INT:
ATTIC

Framed in the attic, we see the model town bathed in artificial

moonlight. The tiny figures of ADAM and BARBARA are silhouetted

as they cross the bridge.

CLOSER --

ADAM and BARBARA race across the bridge, and up the hill that

leads them to their house. The wind is blowing in their faces.

ADAM:

Even if we get there on

time, we have no idea how

to fight him.

INT:
LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT

CU:
DELIA's water clock. It is five minutes to midnight.

CHARLES is herding guests into the living room. DELIA has taken

up a space on the stairs.

DELIA:

Listen people, I have an

announcement to make.

It's difficult for DELIA to get anyone's attention.

DELIA:

LISTEN! I'm sorry, but

Charles and I are going to

have to ask you all to

leave. As quickly as

possible. Believe me, it's

for your own good.

GUEST #1

Delia, this is a very cheap

way to build suspense. Where

are the ghosts?

EXT:
MODEL HOUSE -- NIGHT

BARBARA and ADAM mount the steps. The house appears completely

dark. ADAM peers in one of the windows.

ADAM:

It's completely dark inside.

I don't think this is going

to work.

BARBARA:

There's nothing else to do.

She pulls open the front door, and they step inside.

INT:
LIVING ROOM -- NIGHT

ADAM and BARBARA enter at the back of the crowd of guests, while

DELIA continues to try to persuade them all to leave.

DELIA:

See, the two ghosts love this

house as much as we do, and

they'll to do anything to drive

us out.

Groans from incredulity from the crowd.

DELIA:

Somebody might get hurt.

Really.

BARBARA:

They don't know about Beetle

Juice. They think it's us.

SCREAMS from upstairs.

DELIA and CHARLES look up in fear.

CHARLES:

That's Lydia.

GUEST #2

This is getting hokier and

hokier.

LYDIA, full of terror, appears at the top of the stairs.

LYDIA:

Oh God, Delia. Hurry.

It's Cathy.

CHARLES #3

Is this cheap or what?

DELIA and CHARLES run upstairs, leaving the grumbling guests.

ADAM:

What has he done to

Cathy?

NEW ANGLE ON THE CROWD OF GUESTS --

They are parted like the Red Sea as an unseen ADAM and BARBARA

push through them in order to get upstairs. For the guests, this

is the first ominous indication that something may actually be

very wrong.

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