Every ghost in the netherworld waiting room

BeetlejuiceThe hellish waiting room could only come from the mind of Tim Burton, and the various ghosts encountered there require a guide who explains their appearances and manners of death – especially before returning to Beetlejuice 2. The 1988 movie is filled with memorable sequences, however One moment that really stands out is the Netherworld waiting room scene. The sequence finds Adam and Barbara meeting their afterlife caseworker, and they have to wait with various other spirits whose appearances indicate some gruesome deaths. The place and some of the ghosts then rush back in BeetlejuiceIn the end, after Beetlejuice is thrown back into the afterlife’s realm.

After 36 years of waiting for audiences, the original 1988 movie received a follow-up in the form of 2024’s. Beetlejuice 2. The Tim Burton-directed sequel is confirmed to bring some originals Beetlejuice Characters and cast members, including Michael Keaton as the titular poltergeist, Winona Ryder as Lydia Detz, and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Detz. Although some surprise character returns are still expected, Beetlejuice 2 Also featured the return of the netherworld waiting room And it’s iconic inhabitants, with some returning from the 1988 original.

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Juno (Sylvia Sidney)

Cause of death: suicide

The only spirit of Beetlejuices netherworld waiting room who plays a supporting role in the movie is Juno, as she serves as Adam and Barbara Maitland’s caseworker. The Film reveals that people who die by suicide become civil servants in the afterlifeHow the netherworld operates under a bureaucratic system. Juno also reveals a key detail that initially suggested that Beetlejuice might take his own life as well, as he was her assistant before he went rogue. However, in Beetlejuice 2 His method of death was reconnected, as it is now confirmed that he was killed by his wife.

Sylvia Sidney’s Juno is one of the most normal looking spirits in the netherworld, with her death doing little to significantly change her appearance in the afterlife. While her manner of death is never clearly stated, Juno appears to have died tragically by suicide by having her throat cut, as the smoke from her cigarettes often blows from the slit in her throat.

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Miss Argentina (Patrice Martinez)

Cause of death: suicide

Another important employee in the bureaucracy of the afterlife is Miss Argentina (played by Patrice Martinez), who won her title in 1939. It should be noted that she is not based on a real person, like the real Miss Argentina competition, a Siman, had no pageants from 1938 to 1953. She seems to have a cheerful disposition despite her fate in the afterlife, and seems to Surprisingly enjoy her work (unlike Juno).

Miss Argentina serves as the receptionist in the Netherworld waiting room, and becomes frustrated with Adam and Barbara when they have to explain to the couple the rules in the Handbook for the recently deceased. like Juno, Miss Argentina’s cause of death was suicideWhich is cruelly indicated by her cut wrists in the movie. It is not revealed what the receiver in Beetlejuice Killed herself, although given her costume it’s likely because she lost the Miss World pageant.

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Harry the Huntsman

Cause of death: hunting accident

Among the most memorable ghosts in Beetlejuices netherworld waiting room is Harry the hunter, who apparently died in a hunting accident. After keeping his hunting gear, including his hat and gun, in the afterlife, Harry the Hunter is first introduced when Barbara is startled by his shrunken head. Then he returns Beetlejuices final moments when sitting next to the titular character, with the reason for his shrunken head is revealed when Beetlejuice himself has his head shrunken by the witch doctor next to them.

Based on Michael Keaton’s teasers for Beetlejuice 2s story, it is possible that Harry the Hunter could make an appearance in the sequel. Keaton revealed that Beetlejuice 2 has aShrunken head room“What Introduce various other ghosts (such as Bob) who are obsessed with having a shrunken head in the waiting room.

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The Witch Doctor

Cause of Death: Unknown

at the end of BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice finds himself sitting between the Voodoo Shaman (credited as the Witch Doctor) and Harry the Hunter in the waiting room. Michael Keaton’s character, of course, makes a terrible mistake when he distracts the Witch Doctor and steals his ticket number, leading the latter character to use magic to shrink his head.

The witch doctor doesn’t have any speaking lines, but is still part of a hilarious final gag that ensures the Beetlejuice The end is kept to the rest of the movie (and left room for a sequel). It is Unknown how the shaman died in Beetlejuice Without any visual scarsWhich means it could potentially be due to natural causes. However, given his proximity to Harry the Huntsman (and the fact that he has the same too Beetlejuice), it seems to be implied that the Witch Doctor is responsible for Harry’s shrunken head.

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Magician’s Assistant

Cause of death: Cut in half during magic show accident

Memorably featured in BeetlejuiceThe last sequence of the magician’s assistant has one of the more gory deaths of those who saw the waiting room. However, she was also one of the most humorous, as the way she died as obvious in a single glance. Not only that, but it’s one of the few deaths that would more than likely make the news if it happened. The blue-shaded ghost’s The cause of death was said in half during an accident at a magic showIndicating one of the most famous magic tricks of sawing a woman in half in a box are horribly wrong.

While in the Netherworld waiting room, the magician’s assistant sits with her torso up on one couch cushion while her detached legs are positioned on the next cushion over, still wearing her red outfit from the doomed magic show. At one point, she hits Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice character with a book because he starts touching her legs.

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Char Man (Douglas Turner)

Cause of death: fire

Credited as the Char Man (Douglas Turner), one of the few ghosts in BeetlejuiceThe waiting room receiving lines is a man who was burned alive. With the deceased person still smoking in the afterlife, it’s thought he may have died by lighting a fire with his cigarettesWhich seems more likely after he ironically offers Adam Maitland a smoke.

of all Beetlejuice Waiting Room Ghosts Char Man is the only one who is mildly unsettling to look at, even if he seems extremely friendly. His body was burned to a crisp, with a significant percentage of his body mass missing. Char Man is certainly an example of how, in the world of Tim Burton’s BeetlejuiceThe way a person appears at the time of their death sticks with them throughout the afterlife.

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Man in hospital robes

Cause of death: Died during open-heart surgery

Although he didn’t get any lines, one of the ghosts featured in it Beetlejuices waiting room is A man who apparently died in open-heart surgery. The man is condemned to wear his hospital gown with his heart exposed through the tear in the gown for the rest of his time in the afterlife, which isn’t too comfortable.

The ghost is also still wearing his surgical cap as he reads his copy of The Handbook for the recently deceasedsuggesting he may be as recently dead as Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin’s Beetlejuice Letters. Dying on the operating table is a fear many viewers have, and so while Beetlejuice It’s not a horror movie, it’s somewhat unsettling to see the man in hospital robes in the waiting room sequence.

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Purple-skinned man

Cause of death: Choking

One person who appears in the Netherworld waiting room while Adam and Barbara wait for their appointment with Juno has purple-tinted skin. The man who has short black hair, Appears to have died by strangulation or some sort of strangulation Because of the purple ink of his flesh. However, since he does not speak and (like the other waiting room ghosts) his background is not elaborated, this is pure guesswork.

The discoloration of his skin also suggests that this particular ghost may have drowned. The purple-skinned man is only short in the Beetlejuice Waiting room scene, but can be seen sitting between the Magician’s Assistant and Harry the Hunter while Adam and Barbara initially talk to the waiting room’s receptionist, Miss Argentina.

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Diver/swimmer

Cause of death: Shark attack

Among the more unexpected deaths seen in Beetlejuices netherworld waiting room is a Man who died from a shark attack. The character is only brief when Adam and Barbara wait to see Juno, but it’s highly memorable because the ghost is still wearing his diving mask and swim trunks while holding on to his oxygen tank, with the shark that killed him still hanging from his leg . The green-tinted ghost was so memorable that he even made it in Beetlejuice‘s official poster, as he is seen with the shark dangling from his leg while sitting on the Maitland/Deetz family’s Winter River house.

Oddly, it seems that the diver’s tragic death from the 1988 movie may get a flashback in Tim Burton’s upcoming Beetlejuice 2 Film. It has been confirmed that Jeffrey Jones’ Charles Deetz is dead in beetlejuice 2, But the promotional materials did not reveal exactly how his death came to be other than that it was an unexpected tragedy. However, the tease of Charles’s funeral scene in Beetlejuice 2‘s trailer gives a glimpse of the character’s headstone, which is in the shape of a shark fin. As such, it is possible that, like the man in the original movie, Charles Dets may have died from a shark attack.

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Man with chicken bone in neck

Cause of death: Choking on a chicken bone

At least two ghosts in the Beetlejuice The waiting room in the world died by suffocation based on the appearances of the short-featured characters. One ghost was even seen with a chicken bone still lodged in his throat after choking to death on itThe deceased was also still holding a chicken Bible wrapped around his neck.

Considering the bone is lodged in his neck, this begs the question of how the ghost will be able to speak to his caseworker. Unfortunately, the appearance of the deceased person means that he will always be reminded of the meal that killed him while spending his remaining allotted days in the afterlife. Like the Magician’s Assistant, this particular waiting room ghost has one of the most downright hilarious character designs.

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Woman in sleeping bag

Cause of death: Rattlesnake bite

One of the more shocking causes of deaths seen among the ghosts in the netherworld waiting room is A woman who died from a snake bite. On what turned out to be a camping trip that ends in disaster, one ghost who is next to the deceased diver is still standing in her sleeping bag with the deadly rattlesnake’s tail peering out of the bag.

Since she died lying in her sleep, the character’s hair also stands up horizontally, making the laws of gravity in BeetlejuiceS afterlife all the more interesting. This particular ghost also opens up some questions about what comes with a person to the afterlife. While death from a rattlesnake bit should result in a ghost with a bite mark, it instead brings the ghost of a sleeping bag and a rattlesnake to the netherworld as well.

Cause of death: Bus crash

Some of the most iconic ghosts featured in Tim Burton’s 1988 cult classic horror-comedy movie are members of the deceased college football team, who return at the end of Beetlejuice When Lydia dances to a Harry Belafonte song. When Adam and Barbara meet Sylvia Sidney’s Juno for the first time, the dead footballers are in Juno’s office and don’t realize they’re dead, despite being completely decayed. Juno explains this The football team died in a bus crashApparently on the way to one of their games. However, some of the team survived the vehicle crash, as Juno reveals that the team’s real coach lived after the players continued to refer to her as their coach.

The dead football team in Beetlejuice is actually loosely inspired by a real event, as the Marshall University football team experienced a tragic plane crash in 1970. Charter coordinator, and the four members of the plane’s crew. After more than 50 years, the tragedy is considered one of the most devastating accidents in sports history.

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Messenger (Carmen Filpi)

Cause of death: Run over by vehicle

Another ghost featured in the Netherworld Waiting Room that makes a memorable appearance is the Messenger, who guides Adam and Barbara from the waiting area into Juno’s office. The messenger is completely flattened with tire tracks over it, indicating that He died from a large vehicle. However, the rules of the afterlife indicate that there is still a layer to his death because he now acts as a civil servant in Beetlejuices netherworld, suggesting that his fatal run over was a death by suicide.

In the afterlife, the messenger is led around the netherworld by hanging from a track on the ceiling. The rails run to a gap in the wall, which allows the messenger to easily travel from department to department, and it is clear that those who take their lives by jumping in front of a vehicle are becoming a particularly important part of the corporate infrastructure of the netherworld.

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Green-skinned man

Cause of Death: Unknown

One mysterious ghost that can be spotted in BeetlejuiceNetherworld waiting room scene with Adam and Barbara Maitland is a green-skinned man. His cause of death is not clear from his appearanceHow he simply has green skin and wears a suit as he sits between the man who died of open-heart surgery and BeetlejuiceS char man.

While purple-tinted skin in the afterlife is to suggest that a ghost died of asphyxiation, the green color on some ghosts’ skin may not give any indication of how they died. There is nothing really in his character design that sheds light on the death of the green-skinned man in the Beetlejuice Waiting room, despite several decades of fans rewatching the movie and keeping an eye out.

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Ghost standing against the wall

Cause of Death: Unknown

One ghost is a little hard to find in the first Neverworld waiting room scene in Tim Burton’s 1988 Beetlejuice Movie. When Adam and Barbara are ushered into the office by the messenger ghost, another Deceased individual can be seen leaning against the wall by the doorStanding next to the ghost who died of open-heart surgery.

The cause of his death is not clear, considering how briefly he can be seen in the sequence, but it is all the more interesting because of the grayish tint of his skin. With so many hidden ghosts scattered around the netherworld waiting room in BeetlejuiceIt’s likely that Tim Burton will create many more unique specters for eagle-eyed viewers to find in the 2024 sequel.