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TIL the original Beetlejuice script was less humorous and more dark with the initial fatal car accident depicted graphically. Betelgeuse himself was supposed to be a winged demon who takes the form of a short MiddleEastern man. He also wants to kill the Deetzes and wants sex from Lydia not marriage

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