Christmas carols played over the speakers in Megamall, and as I do every year, I thought, "Isn't anyone going to take up the cudgels for Spooky Season?" You know, heralding Halloween, All Saints' Day, and All Souls' Day with ghosts, bats, witches, jack-o'-lanterns, cemetery visits, candles, costumes, and best of all, candy? I wanted to shield my ears like a vampire violently reacting to sunlight.
But no matter — I was headed to the press screening of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to Tim Burton's 1988 film, Beetlejuice, about a mischievous ghost and self-proclaimed "bio-exorcist" played by Michael Keaton, donning his iconic black-and-white striped suit, dark-circled eyes, and disheveled lemon-lime hair. The movie also features a haunted house on a hill and a colorful, bureaucratic afterlife.
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