This is a perfect example of how a great score moves an entire scene where not much is really happening, its the best sound effect because the crazy music is setting the tone in your mind for all the craziness to come.
@@sirentrap5621 yeah! Here’s the Original song, the Score/the opening theme takes from this! it’s very iconic and very important! ua-cam.com/video/lZABxj718uA/v-deo.html
Mine, too, I personally like Michael Keaton better on here than his role as Batman They had THE Perfect Cast Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Cavett and a very young Winona Ryder Beetlejuice from the Director of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure & Batman
@@grisamaro9036 or..... Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and me wanna go home) Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch (Daylight come and me wanna go home)
I was 6 years old when I 1st saw this. This was in the day when you can a single ticket for 2 movies so we sat through this film like oh man can't wait for Batman but ended up loving this film & of course loved it even more as I got older & understood more.So I had the pleasure of seeing back-to-back great Tim Burton Michael Keaton & Danny Elfman movies incredible
We can still make it happen if we write more horror comedies like Beetlejuice. Be original, creative, imaginative, and create horror comedies in your own ways.
I've noticed this with scary movies in more recent years: taking something like a nursery rhyme, a lullaby or other children's song and slowing it down for a creepy effect to set the tone. Beetlejuice takes a song by Harry Belafonte and slows it down to where "wanna go hoooome" sounds so eerie and foreboding!
This movie was released the same year I was born. Been watching it for as long as I can remember. I'm already 32 years old, and it's still one of my top all-time favorites. Love it.
I'm always confused about when it turns from a real town into a model. We never see the sky(or the attic), and even before the first cut, something looks off about the town.
1:14 - Not sure how it was in whatever theater you were in, but the one I was in was packed, and when this came on the screen, there were loud cheers everywhere!! Awesome moment.
Whoever made the decision to play “DAY-O” in a very twisted way before the film even started….. GENIUS. REALLY gives you an indication of what’s to come.
Fact: This movie was filmed in 4:3. It was matted into 1.85:1 for the theatrical release, DVD release (the 1997 copy still has the 4:3 aspect ratio on side B of the DVD), Blu-Ray, and so forth...
Well, I got Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary DVD. I compared the aspect ratio of the DVD that I got to the aspect ratio of the laserdisc shown on this video...
I don't have a laserdisc player. I was talking about the laserdisc version shown on this UA-cam video. The laserdisc version shown on this UA-cam video is the original version from 1988, in which it's the uncropped one.
A lot of 35mm films from that era were shot in 4:3 using mattes for theatrical release and removing them for broadcast and home media. It was common since it didn't require sacrificing image information like anamorphicly shot films do. Downisde of this is that sometimes you can see crew members or film equipment in the shot since the director is only looking at the cropped compositions on set via monitors.
Crazy how that Laser Disc intro just brought back a flood of childhood memories. My dad had it right. Digital video and audio when everything else was analog garbage.
Along with the marvelously maniacal music, I always loved the visual trick they play when they switch from the actual scenery to the model at 2:36. Too bad Elfman's sung "Day-O!" at the beginning didn't make it onto the soundtrack release. I always miss it when I play it.
@@guileniam The transition is at 2:50 behind the titles! I was just in the IRL village (East Corinth, Vermont) yesterday and the road keeps going southbound along an open field there.
@guileniam It might have been more deceptive... but the initial descent into the community.... There's no movement. Car, pedestrian, dog... Nothing to get you thinking it's a live shot before switching to the model in the Maitland attic.
There are so many great small things to remember about this movie, I never stopped loving it! Music, scenes, acting dialogue and humor that I think it is my favorite Tim Burton film ever!
I remember when I was like 6 or 7 years old and the thing that happens at like 0:30 I always used to love, I mainly remember seeing it from the VHS of Burton's original Batman film though. My how home entertainment has changed since then :D
Despite having grown up on this film, and having been taken to Oingo Boingo shows by my Dad as a small kid...... I ALWAYS forget Danny singing the "Day-O" intro. This LaserDisc intro is especially rad. First time I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, it was on a LaserDisc player + disc my Dad rented out from this tiny independent video rental less than a mile from our house in Hollywood. I feel like there was something really, really special about the audio when played through the right AV system and surround-sound home speakers. Primitive as they were when I was but a young bab in the early 90s. RIP LaserDisc potential lol. Thank you so much for this upload!!! There's a gal appreciating it deeply at 4AM, nine years after you uploaded it.
I grew up on the cartoon and movie for a number of years. This movie was literally the definition of my childhood. I can still do the Beetlejuice laugh myself. This movie has a really special place in my heart.
I was 6 when I saw this in the theater. The music in the first 25 seconds made me think it was going to scare the $H!T outta me, but I LOVED IT!!! Burton rules!!!!
Ne vogliamo parlare? 🤤 I bassi, i suoni bassi. Sono davvero magnifici. Il trombone basso, il clarinetto in do minore. E quell’assolo con l’oboe alto? Rende tutto così tombale, profondo, cupo. Semplicemente perfetto. Ahh🤤
@@doomvictor3934 I have a Laserdisc player also and own 110 movies in Laserdisc format so far but I do not own BeetleJuice on LD sadly. I do own Batman and Edward Scissorhands on it though. Need to come up with more money to continue my LD obsession and will be buying Beetlejuice.
@@DisneyEndings That's cool. I was at my good friends brothers house, and he also has a laserdisc player. He had The Alien Trilogy, The Godfather Trilogy, Bladerunner. Unfortunately I was not able to see any one of them, since we were to pick something and leave.
Who’s here after the teaser for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped?? ✋🏼
Me just to prove that a slowed down line of the Banana Boat song was in the original. 😅
One of the best intros in film history
This is a perfect example of how a great score moves an entire scene where not much is really happening, its the best sound effect because the crazy music is setting the tone in your mind for all the craziness to come.
Do you know any movies other than Beetlejuice that can nail that ?
@@treseancann1261 Psycho and Miss Peregrine are close contenders.
Wow!
@@treseancann1261 Total Recall, the original directed by Paul Verhoeven (sp?)
@@treseancann1261Batman 1989.
“Day light come and we wanna go homeeeeeeeeee” is so nuts, one of the best opening scenes, I swear I always come back to this
I know.
is that what they said? Day light come and we wanna go home? i thought it was a song in a different language
@@sirentrap5621 yeah!
Here’s the Original song, the Score/the opening theme takes from this!
it’s very iconic and very important!
ua-cam.com/video/lZABxj718uA/v-deo.html
I didn't understand all of it, but I did understand them "farting" 😅
@@sirentrap5621it’s the Day-O Harry Belonfonte song they sing at the dinner table
0:56 always gives me goosebumps.
That's the moment when you realize you're stepping into a mysterious and ghoulish world, and there is no turning back now...
Same here! Love that intro, you can tell heart and soul was poured into this masterpiece. Miss the good ol' days
Same!
Same
Same here. Because i was raised watching it
Best opening to a movie period....
Deadpan this and the opening to HBO's Cryptkeeper series. Unsurprisingly, both of which are composed by Danny Elfman.
Werd
Yup this one and Forrest gump
& Top Gun
Lion King and Hunchback of Notre Dame
My favorite Burton film ever. Original, funny and wildly weird. Also this score is top-notch.
Mine, too, I personally like Michael Keaton better on here than his role as Batman
They had THE Perfect Cast
Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Dick Cavett and a very young Winona Ryder
Beetlejuice from the Director of Pee-Wee's Big Adventure & Batman
My favorite Burton film, too. Actually it's a tie between Beetlejuice and Ed Wood.
Fav burton film as well. Glad they arent doing a sequel. They need to leav this one alone
MrKajithecat did somebody say top notch 😏
My favorite Burton film too. I miss the 90s Burton so much
Totally agree. Ever since i first saw this movie ive LOVED this opening. I still find myself humming it randomly.
Lol yep!
agree with what?
1:15 has such a creepy, eerie vibe. I love it!!
Catherine O’Hara....probably one of the most underrated actresses EVER!
Such a babe!
@@grisamaro9036 KEVIN!!!
@@deathmagnetic12085 😂😂😂
@@grisamaro9036 or.....
Lift six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
(Daylight come and me wanna go home)
Six foot, seven foot, eight foot bunch
(Daylight come and me wanna go home)
Is there no szechhhwan up here!
0:56 imagine hear that in theaters
I wish I could have!!! But I saw Batman in theatres that following year and that made up for it. I was 5
One of the greatest film themes ever
You can tell the moment the decor turn into a model, and this is brilliant.
I was 6 years old when I 1st saw this. This was in the day when you can a single ticket for 2 movies so we sat through this film like oh man can't wait for Batman but ended up loving this film & of course loved it even more as I got older & understood more.So I had the pleasure of seeing back-to-back great Tim Burton Michael Keaton & Danny Elfman movies incredible
Wow! Nathaniel Thomas
The sequel needs to have an intro like this!
We need more horror comedies like beetlejuice nowadays tbh.
We can still make it happen if we write more horror comedies like Beetlejuice. Be original, creative, imaginative, and create horror comedies in your own ways.
I'd love to see a black comedy horror about a necrophiliac who falls in love with a rotting and annoying girl zombie
I've noticed this with scary movies in more recent years: taking something like a nursery rhyme, a lullaby or other children's song and slowing it down for a creepy effect to set the tone. Beetlejuice takes a song by Harry Belafonte and slows it down to where "wanna go hoooome" sounds so eerie and foreboding!
I think it probably became common in movies from the 80s, maybe even earlier. Poltergeist, Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween II.
@@axebomber2108 Rosemary's Baby did it.
This movie was released the same year I was born. Been watching it for as long as I can remember. I'm already 32 years old, and it's still one of my top all-time favorites. Love it.
Love how they present the scale model combined with the real town in this intro...
I'm always confused about when it turns from a real town into a model. We never see the sky(or the attic), and even before the first cut, something looks off about the town.
@axebomber2108
Nothing was moving in the shot....
A car, a person, something to sell its the real town before the cut to the model...
Probably my most fav movie theme/score ever. Cant imagine how thrilled Burton was when Elfman brought this piece for him to hear for the first time.
One of Danny Elfman’s best compositions.
I hope they play this theme in the second movie as well!
If this debuted on the screens today, I’m sure the world would be astounded by what they witnessed 💯💯💯
I wonder if the sequel will have the same effect?
Love this!! I'm lucky enough to have met Tim Burton... what a brilliant guy
Ken Shiro that’s so cool! Where did you meet him? He’s one of my heroes.
You're not alone. I actually saw him in a limo at the Hotel Roosevelt in LA when I was 13 (fresh off directing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
Met him and his wife at work
Where did you meet him?! Tell me!
Day-o, we say day-o
Daylight come and me wanna go home
Best part
1:14 - Not sure how it was in whatever theater you were in, but the one I was in was packed, and when this came on the screen, there were loud cheers everywhere!! Awesome moment.
If Danny Elfman's making this music, he did a hell of a job!
Yeah, "Batman Returns, Nightbreed & Sleepy Hollow" are probably his best work
Love the creepy Day-O at the opening.
It's Danny Elfman! The composer, but also my favorite singer :)
0:43 That’s the part I was looking for, it used to scare me as a kid
lol yeah it did
I think that first little bit is Danny Elfman singing, if I’m not mistaken
@@UnderTheTableGremlin Yes! And that's why I especially was looking for this version! He is my favorite singer.
huh ?! lmao you're weird finding that scary
Danny Elfman is an f'ing genius
Wow, pretty interesting quality coming from a LaserDisc. I've never encountered one before. The audio quality is impressive, very clean output! :)
Whoever made the decision to play “DAY-O” in a very twisted way before the film even started….. GENIUS. REALLY gives you an indication of what’s to come.
I hope the sequel retains the pitch-black gallows humour of the original
R.I.P. Sylvia Sidney. She was one of the greatest actresses who ever lived. Those eyes !
1:13 dang I got chills. I just saw it for the first time 4 days ago. I listened to the musical and knew I had to see the film.
Fact: This movie was filmed in 4:3. It was matted into 1.85:1 for the theatrical release, DVD release (the 1997 copy still has the 4:3 aspect ratio on side B of the DVD), Blu-Ray, and so forth...
Well, I got Beetlejuice 20th Anniversary DVD. I compared the aspect ratio of the DVD that I got to the aspect ratio of the laserdisc shown on this video...
I don't have a laserdisc player. I was talking about the laserdisc version shown on this UA-cam video.
The laserdisc version shown on this UA-cam video is the original version from 1988, in which it's the uncropped one.
No one really cares 😂😂
At least this Laserdisc release has the original aspect ratio.
A lot of 35mm films from that era were shot in 4:3 using mattes for theatrical release and removing them for broadcast and home media. It was common since it didn't require sacrificing image information like anamorphicly shot films do. Downisde of this is that sometimes you can see crew members or film equipment in the shot since the director is only looking at the cropped compositions on set via monitors.
Danny Elfman is a gift!!!!!!!!! 💜💜💜💜
0:56 best part of the opening 💕🥰
Hoping the intro for the sequel is a tip of the hat to the original
2:31 Oh god! The music is running out of patience, it’s about to be so exiting!
This intro pulls you right in to the film. And they knew It would
Crazy how that Laser Disc intro just brought back a flood of childhood memories. My dad had it right. Digital video and audio when everything else was analog garbage.
I so excited the rebuilt the house for the next movie!😃
OHHH LORD the percussion!!!! Oh it feeeeeel so goooood!!
Along with the marvelously maniacal music, I always loved the visual trick they play when they switch from the actual scenery to the model at 2:36.
Too bad Elfman's sung "Day-O!" at the beginning didn't make it onto the soundtrack release. I always miss it when I play it.
Seriously! I love that beginning so much 😓
1:57 looks like model too though. I actually can't tell where the model starts and the live action shot ends
@@guileniam The transition is at 2:50 behind the titles! I was just in the IRL village (East Corinth, Vermont) yesterday and the road keeps going southbound along an open field there.
@guileniam It might have been more deceptive... but the initial descent into the community....
There's no movement.
Car, pedestrian, dog...
Nothing to get you thinking it's a live shot before switching to the model in the Maitland attic.
@soylentteal The version with the Day O is included on the Burton/Elfman Music Box CD
Forget how many times i restarted this clip, best intro ever💯
_Day-o, me say day-o..._
*_Daylight come and me wanna go..._*
goosebumps - that's how you score a movie.
I can't wait for the sequel, next year in September. 😅
My reaction when I hear Danny's Elfman's score seeing the title *"BEETLEJUICE"* ... I smile. *grins devilishly* 😈
Anybody else remember this theme being used for trailers of the Casper movie in the late 90s?
Paranorman used it too!!
*Falling Down* used the opening
Horton Hears a Who
My Favorite Martian
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Monster House
I’m sure everyone who had the privilege to see this in theaters knew that they were in for a treat when the music started
There are so many great small things to remember about this movie, I never stopped loving it! Music, scenes, acting dialogue and humor that I think it is my favorite Tim Burton film ever!
Best movie intro ever, have goosebumps every time
I remember when I was like 6 or 7 years old and the thing that happens at like 0:30 I always used to love, I mainly remember seeing it from the VHS of Burton's original Batman film though. My how home entertainment has changed since then :D
You can't watch a Warner Brothers movie without your Warner Brothers baseball cap!
1:14.... GOOSEBUMPS
0:41 It's showtime
I love Danny’s voice
1st movie I ever saw in theaters!!! One of my fondest memory’s!
The Geffen sphere is scary, like the killer spheres from Phantasm.
David Geffen: You think that when you die you go to heaven? You come to US!
The sound of the laserdisc is a thousand times better than a DVD or even a Bluray.
LD sounds awesome, but True HD 7.1 blows LD dts out of the water.
@@deckofcards87 Yeah we gotta be realistic here.
You can not be neutral with Tim Burton: you adore him or hate him. This is the first Burton movie I saw, and I knew I would love his work forever.
Despite having grown up on this film, and having been taken to Oingo Boingo shows by my Dad as a small kid...... I ALWAYS forget Danny singing the "Day-O" intro. This LaserDisc intro is especially rad. First time I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, it was on a LaserDisc player + disc my Dad rented out from this tiny independent video rental less than a mile from our house in Hollywood. I feel like there was something really, really special about the audio when played through the right AV system and surround-sound home speakers. Primitive as they were when I was but a young bab in the early 90s. RIP LaserDisc potential lol. Thank you so much for this upload!!! There's a gal appreciating it deeply at 4AM, nine years after you uploaded it.
Uff hacia años que no veia esa intro de Warner Bros Video,ya ni me acordaba,en cuanto a la peli,de las mejores de Tim Burton!!!
That old warner bros intro tho
Why did that have to go so hard back in the day? Always scared the crap out of me when I was a kid.
Literally CANNOT wait to hear what Danny elfman cooks up for the new movie
SAMMEE
0:46 - 1:02 I’ve always thought that part was really cool, but creepy.
Saw this back in '88 at the movie theater. I also have the LD & a 1990 Sony LD Payer. Although I never use it now I keep it for nostalgic purposes:-)
I grew up on the cartoon and movie for a number of years. This movie was literally the definition of my childhood. I can still do the Beetlejuice laugh myself. This movie has a really special place in my heart.
If this intro isn’t this in the cinema, I’m leaving!!!!!
Sounds great.
A brilliant brilliant score
Tim Burton at his best💯
Still the single best piece of music that Danny Elfman has ever created.
Came here for the spider.
*3:08 No spider *
I just LOVE this intro!!!
And now.... It's SHOW TIME!!!!
Try playing all the parts at 2:42 on the piano! It’s hard!😅
This is one of my favorite Tim Burton movies. Along with Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood and Corpse Bride.
I was 6 when I saw this in the theater. The music in the first 25 seconds made me think it was going to scare the $H!T outta me, but I LOVED IT!!! Burton rules!!!!
Yes me too 😂 the music alone
I want this song to play on my funeral bwahahahaha
Danny Elfman also did the score for Batman 1989, very talented composer, like the Jerry Goldsmith of the late 80s and early 90s.
Masterpiece!
Ne vogliamo parlare? 🤤 I bassi, i suoni bassi. Sono davvero magnifici. Il trombone basso, il clarinetto in do minore. E quell’assolo con l’oboe alto? Rende tutto così tombale, profondo, cupo. Semplicemente perfetto. Ahh🤤
Damn brings back memories my first laser disk movie
I keep imagining random events like a car chase, school shooting,etc with this music
one of the best pieces of danny elfmann
2020....one of the greatest movie intro
Gj mister Burton / Elfman
Hope they never reboot the movie
Theresa Stevens if they do, I hope they make it like how it was supposed to be made: a straight up horror film
Warner Home Video theme. Classic.
4 ads in a row before it played holy fuck.
This was a dope intro
0:57 D A N C E O F D O O M
I'd love to watch the whole movie, it's been years since I last watched Beetlejuice.
This is iconic 👏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
2:17 Favorite movie part
0:43 is the goosebumps for me!
Great film score
Used to absolutely love when the geffen sign come up n here the day o song went dark 🙌
Who Has A Friken Laserdisc! Honestly...
I heard this in Scott Evil's voice actually, instead of his father's.
I have a player, i need the movie
@@gregwillis3896 Out of curiosity, what movies do you own on Laserdisc?
@@doomvictor3934 I have a Laserdisc player also and own 110 movies in Laserdisc format so far but I do not own BeetleJuice on LD sadly. I do own Batman and Edward Scissorhands on it though. Need to come up with more money to continue my LD obsession and will be buying Beetlejuice.
@@DisneyEndings That's cool. I was at my good friends brothers house, and he also has a laserdisc player. He had The Alien Trilogy, The Godfather Trilogy, Bladerunner. Unfortunately I was not able to see any one of them, since we were to pick something and leave.