
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice 2024 Story by Alfred Gough, Miles Millar and Seth Grahame-Smith, screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, directed by Tim Burton.
The Deetz's are back and movie opens with the death of Charles Deetz, husband to Delia and father to Lydia. They gather for the funeral in Winter River and Delia plans to sell the old house from the first movie. Lydia has become the host of a popular ghost program. Her daughter Astrid is in college, she's dragged to the funeral. She doesn't believe in the afterlife. Lydia's dating her producer Rory, he's a horrible man. He proposes to Lydia at the funeral reception and she accepts because she's not strong enough to stand up to him.
Beetlejuice is running a afterlife business staffed by shrunken head guys in nice big yellow suits. We find out Beetlejuice was married to Delores LaFerve when he was living. She's a soul sucker and he had to chop her into pieces to keep her from sucking the life out of him. A dead janitor collects the pieces of her body, she reassembles and starts sucking souls. The janitor was the first to go. She starts hunting Beetlejuice, sucking souls as she moves about. She was the one who killed him, he chopped her up before he died.
Delia is killed by some poisonous snakes she bought from some shady person on the internet. Astrid meets a nice boy, she doesn't know he's a dead baddie, he tricks her into the afterlife so he can steal his soul and return to the world of the living. Rory doesn't believe that Lydia is haunted by Beetlejuice and calls him into the world of the living by saying his name 3 times. We'd have no movie if any of the people would act sensibly. There are a whole lot of other plot points to pad out the movie to 104 mins.
I enjoyed most of the movie and would be interested in seeing it again someday. The Blu-ray is on my Wanted List. It colorful and noisy but I thought it was a bit slow. The musical numbers were dragging it down for me. It was mostly fun and Bob is my favorite character.

Bog 1979 Written by Carl Kitt and Don Keeslar. An American horror film made in Wisconsin. Like a lot of independent film this one has hired a number of older veteran actors from TV and film: Marshall Thompson, Gloria DeHaven, Aldo Ray and Leo Gordon.
Aldo is the sheriff in a small Wisconsin town, Marshall is a doctor, Gloria and Leo are scientists. There's a monster living in the bog, some fish blasting wakens it, people start to die when the bog creature starts sucking all the blood out of the victims. The bog creature kills a good number of citizens and tourists. Aldo and his deputies try to fight it but it's a tough beast, many folks die before an accident starts a fire and it's burnt up. Lucky for the story, some eggs are left for a sequel that hasn't been made yet.
It's rather a weak film that's in rough physical shape. I guess no one saved the negatives or there was no money to try to clean it up. Oh well. It gets a 3.2 on the IMDb. I gave it a 4 out of pity. I did get a few laughs, not a jokes though. I doubt I'd need to watch it again, I wouldn't need the Blu-ray it shares with Mako: The Jaws Of Death. We watched the first few mins of that and it might be better. We'll see.