Parents Guide for
Beetlejuice (1988) More at IMDbPro »Beetle Juice (original title)

PG for Comic Horror Violence and Peril including Frightening Images, Sexual Content, and Language

Two ghosts make moaning noises that a girl mistakenly thinks is her parents during intercourse.

A scene is shown in which Beetlejuice mentions that he hasn't gotten any "action" in 600 years, and then visits a brothel staffed by devil women who are scantily clad.

Beetlejuice tries to look up a Barbara's skirt.

Beetlejuice caresses a dead girl's thigh.

Beetlejuice grabs his crotch and hoists it up in a slightly offensive manner (intended to be a middle finger-type gesture)

Comical violence throughout; including decapitation, suicide, grotesque images and some blood use. Funny, but quite gruesome.

A woman rips her face off, and her eyeballs hang from their sockets (very goofy and cheesy-looking).

A man stretches his face so that it looks like he's got a beak and you can't see his eyes.

Two characters are killed, but it occurs off-screen and is not graphic (it is actually very funny).

A sand-worm eats Beetlejuice.

7/10. Some coarse language, including 1 or 2 uses of the word 'f*ck', 'sh*t' 'pissed', 'g-damn', and several uses of some mild language

Overall smoking is depicted as an act which leads to a violent and unpleasant death. A ghost woman who was a smoker in life has a tracheotomy wound in her neck and blows the smoke from her cigarettes through it. Another ghost is depicted as a horrible charred skeleton/body, the implication being that he burned to death when a cigarette caught his bed on fire.

Constant references to death & the afterlife, including depictions of dead characters, ghosts & other creatures which may frighten or upset younger viewers.



This film is rated 15 but that is mainly because of the uses of ' f*ck ' and 'g-damn' in the film; it was, of course, rated in the 80's, when film ratings were much more lax. Other then this, the film should be sutible for people 10 and up.