BEETLEJUICE - Filming Locations - Inside Tim Burton Town

0:02 I don't

0:08 know. The

0:27 world. Welcome everyone. I'm in the

0:27 mountains of Vermont right now. I'm

0:29 going to be trouncing around this

0:31 beautiful countryside all day. These are

0:33 the locations from the 1988 Tim Burton

0:36 Classic. One of my favorites and

0:38 hopefully yours, too. Say it once, say

0:41 it twice, just don't say it three

0:45 times.

0:58 I don't know about you, but I am a huge

0:58 Tim Burton fan. Especially his early

1:00 stuff like PeeWee's Big Adventure,

1:01 Edward Scissor Hands, Beetlejuice. So,

1:04 you know, I must be really excited

1:05 because right there over those trees was

1:07 the very first shot right after the

1:09 Beetlejuice emblem comes up. There's a

1:12 helicopter shot that comes right over

1:14 those trees. If you look closely in the

1:16 movie, the helicopter comes over those

1:18 trees. First of all, they show a little

1:20 bit of the town the way it is in real

1:23 life before they cut to the model shot

1:25 with the spider. How do I know this is

1:27 the exact spot? Well, watch this. When

1:30 you watch the shot in the movie, you can

1:32 see the backside of this building right

1:33 here with the chimney and the backside

1:36 and then it flies over the town and look

1:39 over there. You see that steeple on that

1:41 church? You can also see that. So, right

1:43 here, ladies and gentlemen, is where the

1:45 helicopter shot was. The very first

1:47 shot. Beetle

2:02 juice. This whole area up here in

2:04 Vermont is so beautiful. In fact, they

2:07 make you really soak it in cuz I don't

2:09 have any cell phone reception here. I'm

2:11 already perfectly at

2:13 ease. It's perfect. This is the area

2:16 here where they would have had the

2:21 cemetery. This is where Beetlejuice

2:23 would have been laid to

2:30 rest. Of course, a lot of it was on a

2:30 sound stage, but in the town, this is

2:33 where the cemetery would have been. This

2:34 empty plot of land, probably fake

2:36 gravestones for the aerial shot when the

2:38 helicopter came over that hill. You can

2:42 see all this in the background there.

2:44 There it is. It's where the cemetery

2:46 was. You bunch of

2:49 losers. You're working with a

2:51 professional here.

2:54 When they were driving into town, they

2:55 would have drove right over this way.

2:56 Here's the library in the movie.

2:59 Nice building, bad roof, good parking.

3:08 There was a guy standing right here. He

3:08 said hello to them.

3:22 How you doing, Ernie? Oh, hell yeah. How

3:25 you doing?

3:30 That would have been the fire station in

3:30 the movie. And right there would have

3:31 been Matland Hardware. Definitely seen

3:33 better days.

3:52 Morning, Adam. You need a a haircut for

3:52 your vacation? Oh, thanks, Bill. How's

3:54 the model coming? Oh, it's great. You

3:55 know, you said Bossman built that

3:58 foundation in

4:00 1835. All right.

4:15 This right here is where Winona Ryder at

4:15 the end of the movie would have walked

4:16 out with her other school children. This

4:19 was Miss Shannon's school for

4:31 girls. That definitely has Tim Burton's

4:31 name written all over it. Definitely his

4:33 style.

4:53 We've come for your daughter, Chuck.

4:57 You can actually see that brick

4:58 embankment right there behind them when

5:00 they're talking about going to Jamaica.

5:02 Are you sure you wouldn't rather go to

5:04 Jamaica or some place like that? No way.

5:06 Right there in that exact spot with that

5:08 wall behind them there is where they get

5:10 surprised by the dog right before they

5:12 crash through the bridge. Hey, watch out

5:14 for that dog.

5:16 There's a dog right there. Don't hit it.

5:21 Here's where the dog was waddling into

5:23 the bridge. There was a sign right here

5:25 planted in the ground. And the way you

5:27 can tell this is the spot is this

5:28 telephone pole with this little wiry

5:31 thingy coming straight down at this

5:33 angle with that telephone

5:39 pole. Have you ever wanted to drive over

5:42 the Beetlejuice Bridge? Well, here's

5:43 your chance to live vicariously.

5:46 Hopefully there's no dogs running in

5:48 front of

5:58 us. This is where the dog would have

5:58 been perched. Right there on the piece

6:00 of

6:07 wood. And the way you can tell is the

6:07 library in the shot is right up here,

6:09 which is now blocked by these trees. But

6:12 if you just come around the edge here,

6:14 you'll be able to see the library. See

6:16 it there? Right there is the corner of

6:19 the edge of the

6:20 library. Those trees have grown up since

6:22 then, but this is the spot. So, right

6:25 there is where the car would have gone

6:26 off into the

6:35 ravine. It's kind of treacherous. It's a

6:35 little It's a little

6:37 steep going down here to the spot where

6:40 the car would have

6:46 fallen. Here we are under the bridge.

6:46 Kind of echoey. Just imagine the car

6:49 driving right up here above us. It would

6:52 have careened off there and fallen right

6:55 on these rocks. This whole area was

6:57 damned up on one end so that the water

7:00 was really high because this water is

7:02 always at this level. So, for the movie,

7:05 we needed the water to be

7:07 high. So, I'm standing right where the

7:09 water would have been. I'd be drowning.

7:11 That's where the car would have fallen

7:12 off. It would have teetered and tottered

7:15 and fell right there in the water with a

7:16 big splash.

7:30 I've seen The Exorcist about 167 times

7:33 and it keeps getting funnier every

7:36 single time I see it. Not to mention the

7:38 fact that you're talking to a dead guy.

7:40 Now, what do you think? You think I'm

7:43 qualified? You're probably wondering now

7:45 where the Deetsas lived and where their

7:46 house would have been. Judging by the

7:48 town being right there, this would be

7:51 the hill that the Diet's house was

7:57 on. This would have been the driveway.

7:59 You see there's still a little remnants

8:00 left of the driveway. Heading right up

8:02 there is where the fake facade of the

8:05 home would have

8:07 been. Let's travel up now. Take a look

8:10 what we have up here.

8:16 See all this in the background? The

8:18 house would have been right

8:20 here. This is it. Pretty crazy to think

8:23 that's where the house was right there.

8:25 A lot of the action happened all on the

8:27 porches out in front when they were

8:29 moving in. That whole deal. Still part

8:31 of the driveway left

8:40 here. The house would have been

8:48 Make sure you subscribe right up here.

8:50 And remember, if you do that, you want

8:54 me to eat? I swallow anything. You want

8:55 me to swallow? Come on down. I chew on a

8:58 dog.

BEETLEJUICE - Filming Locations - Inside Tim Burton Town

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