Episode 55. Strange and Unusual: Beetlejuice (1988)

Faculty of Horror

Andrea Subissati and Alexandra West

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🗓️ 28 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Ghosts, possession, autonomous sculptures and that’s just scratching the surface of Tim Burton’s genre-bending cult classic, Beetlejuice. In this episode, Andrea and Alex manage to avoid saying his name three times while diving into the aesthetics, capitalist virtues and bureaucracy of the afterlife that surrounds everyone’s favourite bio-exorcist. REQUIRED READING Beetlejuice. Dir. Tim Burton, 1988. EXTRA […]

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0:00.0	The Oh, Oh, Hi everyone and welcome back to the Faculty of Horror
0:57.3	podcasting from the Horrid Halls of Academia I'm Alex West with Andrea
1:02.1	Subasati. Whoa Andrea what happened with your I'm Alex West with? Andrea, Zuba Saudi.
1:03.0	Whoa, Andrea, what happened with your voice?
1:05.0	Is that okay?
1:06.0	I've been practicing for a month.
1:08.0	It's not easy.
1:10.0	No, and it's not easy.
1:12.0	It's not easy to talk about the film we're going to talk about,
1:15.0	Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. I feel that the closest I can get to this film as a comparison is
1:22.1	ghostbusters, that I actually don't remember the first
1:25.2	time I saw it.
1:26.1	It's just so intrinsically a part of who I am.
1:29.0	It's part of my humor, it's a part of my aesthetic, it's a part of the things I like. So it was a weird thing going back to this
1:35.4	film as an original text and trying to take it apart because it's one of those films that if I met someone in
1:42.2	they were like I don't like
1:43.2	beetle juice I would have issues relating to them. I have never met somebody.
1:47.8	Right they don't exist right. I don't think so. I think maybe like Bigfoot
1:52.3	doesn't like it.
1:53.0	Fck him. And we realize that it's a bit of an offbeat choice for the faculty of horror. We did
1:59.6	ghostbusters because it kind of straddles in horror but also there was a wider discussion at stake as to how people
2:06.0	were reacting to the remake and stuff so we did a mini episode about that but when it
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