Beetlejuice: Laugh of the Party

Dinner’s not over ‘til we dance The Day-O scene in Beetlejuice (1988) is pure chaotic brilliance. A haunted dinner party where Delia (the iconic Catherine O’Hara) leads a group of horrified guests into a possessed conga line. It’s camp, creepy, and above all hilarious. And yet beneath the banana-boat bop, Tim Burton skewers the Deetz family’s desperate need for sophistication, a family literally haunted by their own greed. They try so desperately to capitalise on the dead, only to be outdone by