Beetlejuice Page #32
- PG
- Year:
- 1988
- 92 min
- 10,409 Views
THE DRAGON leaps at the MATRON, knocking her out of her chair,
and claws at her exposed face until it is kicked off by another
GUEST.
The DRAGON flies back to BEETLE JUICE, perching on his top hat,
and begins to TWITTER.
BEETLE JUICE:
You'll leave when I tell
you to.
Behind BEETLE JUICE, we see LYDIA, crouching almost out of sight
at the top of the stairs leading the second floor. Her eyes are
wide, and after a moment, she silently retreats.
INT:
UPSTAIRS HALLWAY -- NIGHTOTHO, carrying the HANDBOOK, half runs, half rolls down the
stairs from the attic. LYDIA flies down the hall from the
opposite direction. The two collide at the door of CATHY's room,
and do a fat man's dance trying to squeeze through the door.
INT:
CATHY'S ROOM -- NIGHTLYDIA and OTHO pop through the door together.
OTHO:
Party's over, people. There's
LYDIA:
We've got to get out of here.
DELIA:
This is my house. I'm not
leaving.
CHARLES is standing at the window. He glances out.
CHARLES:
Holy sh*t...
DELIA:
What is it?
CHARLES POV --
DELIA's sculptures are arranged in a circle around the house.
They rock back and forth impatiently on their sawhorse legs. The
high wind blows their feathers frantically.
OTHO:
Delia, darling, it's all in
here. (Indicates the Handbook).
His name is Swallowtail.
CATHY:
No, it's Beetle juice.
LYDIA:
I don't know what his name
is, but he's downstairs right
now. And he just turned a
canary into a dragon.
DELIA:
But what does this Bottle
Juice want with us?
CATHY listens a moment to the invisible BARBARA and ADAM.
CATHY:
house and kill everybody's
who in it.
DELIA:
Like hell he is. We're
gonna fight. We paid cash
for this house.
OTHO:
I think you've figured out some-
thing you can do. But Cathy os
going to have to convince her
ghosts to help us.
CHARLES:
Why should they help us? They've
been trying to get rid of us since
the day we moved in.
CATHY listens a moment to the invisible ADAM and BARBARA.
CATHY:
They'll help. Otho, tell us
what to do.
The GUESTS are fearful, and some of the women are weeping.
BEETLE JUICE is still performing his tricks. He reaches over to
a woman, on the verge of hysteria, and from her ear pulls the
world's biggest and ugliest catterpillar. He drops it into her
drink.
BEETLE JUICE:
Hey, this is a party. Why
I know. Let's dance.
He looks at the DEETZs sound system. LOUD ROCK MUSIC comes on
instantly.
For a moment, everyone is still.
BEETLE JUICE:
Dance, I said.
In the far corner of the room, two guests begin a spasmodic,
frantic dancing. This continues in a wave across the room, until
all the guests are participating in this physical insanity --
crarshing off one another, smashing againt the walls, some of
them flying up to the ceiling and hitting their heads, nose-
diving along the carpets. BEETLE JUICE, with a wicked laugh and
cackle, dances amongst them all.
On the stairway appear, in this order, LYDIA, DELIA, CHARLES
carrying CATHY, and OTHO bringing up the rear.
BEETLE JUICE looks up at them. A wicked smile crosses his face.
BEETLE JUICE:
Party's over.
The MUSIC stops. The dancers collapse like puppets whose strings
have been severed.
BEETLE JUICE:
Everybody leave.
The windows all shoot up in their frames, smashing frames and
glass.
The doors of the house fly open with crashes.
EXT:
HOUSE -- NIGHTOne beat, and then from every door and open window, frantic
GUESTS pour out of the house.
They scatter in all directions in the yard, and chased by DELIA's
lumbering sculptures, they race towards their cars.
It is pandemonium.
A deadly silence seems to have overtaken the house.
BEETLE JUICE stands in the middle of the empty living room.
BEETLE JUICE:
I tell you, you guys sure
know how to throw a party.
The DEETZs just look at him.
BEETLE JUICE:
Come closer. I won't bite.
CHARLES looks at OTHO. OTHO gives him the go-ahead. CHARLES
cautiously comes closer, and puts CATHY in a chair immediately in
front of, and facing BEETLE JUICE.
CHARLES:
You don't have to do this.
CATHY:
I do have to. This house
belongs to us. All of us.
CHARLES retreats. BEETLE JUICE grins. He sprouts an enormous
pair of LEATHER WINGS. His face alters -- and become a truly
malicious mirror of his twisted soul.
BEETLE JUICE:
Who are you, little girl?
And what do you have to
say to me?
CATHY doesn't answer.
BEETLE JUICE:
Where are your friends?
Hiding out in the attic, I
suppose. Don't worry about
them. Once I've done with
you, I've got a few surprises
in store for our ghosts.
CATHY:
As sudden thunder / Pierces night;
As magic wonder / Mad affright
Rives asunder / Men's delight:
Our ghost, our corpse, and we
Rise to be.
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