Sweet Sandworms of Saturn do I love Beetlejuice! It is easily one of the most underrated and watchable movies of all time and tomorrow marks 30 years since its release! Yahoo sat down with Beetlejuice’s creator, Larry Wilson, to talk about five bits of trivia many may not know about our favorite bio-exorcist. Watch the video, below!

5. Oh, She Dead

In the film, Lydia decides she wants to join the Maitland’s in the land of the dead, but is stopped just before she does. Well, the original idea was for to die in a fire and join them. The film does a great job of straddling the line between darkness and comedy, but, whoa buddy, that may be a little heavy on the dark side.

4. I Guess it’s Better than Ghost Dad

Originally the studio hated the idea of just calling it Beetlejuice and thought the name House Ghost was much more appealing. That proposal sounds so boring and forgettable in hindsight and like Wilson says “I would not like to be here talking about House Ghost: The Movie.”

3. She’s a Loner, Dotty

One of the things I’ve always loved about Beetlejuice is Lydia and how everyone may roll their eyes at her now and then but she’s free to be as weird as she wants to be. No one, even people at school, mock her or tell her to change, they let her be her. It turns out that wasn’t always the case. In the original idea she had a straight-laced sister who was meant to be a counterbalance antagonist, someone who would be mocking her and pushing back. An early re-write got rid of the sis “and what a good decision because then it became all about Lydia.”

2. “I intend to live forever or die trying”

This one was the most surprising to me, but now that I hear it, it makes total sense. The inspiration for Beetlejuice for Wilson was Groucho Marx! As he puts it, Beetlejuice was intended to be “Groucho Marx from hell.” Besides being a fantastic script idea, I can completely see how such a character would lead to the ghost with the most. No surprise that Beetlejuice ends up a rapid machinegun full of jokes.

1. Part II: This Time it’s Personal

Turns out the sequel that never happened was actually part of the plan from the start. Wilson tells of how he planned a sequel as soon as he wrote the first one and, like it, the second installment would be character driven and limited in scope. The conflict of part two wouldn’t be bio-exorcism but what happens when a living man (Mr. Deetz) falls in love with the dearly departed (Mrs. Maitland). Oh, what could have been!

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Nightmare on Film Street will be spending all day honoring the ghost with the most and we highly recommend you do the same. If it’s been thirty years, thirty days or, hell, thirty minutes since you’ve last seen Beetlejuice, then I suggest you “turn on the juice and see what shakes loose! Next up, QUIZ – What Beetlejuice Character Are You?