Released in the 80s or early 90s. A fantasy / comedy horror movie filled with ghosts and fantastic beasts. In the final scene, the beast is banished to the underworld, for an interview with the devil, presumably. He holds place 3991938401274383 in the queue, which is now serving number… 1. A long wait in store, he/she/it remarks. I think MJ or a lookalike makes a brief appearance with children in one scene.
Yup. Sounds like Beetlejuice to me, too.
The waiting room scene in Beetlejuice, for reference.
You had to go and say it a third time! :mad:
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I think it might have been Beetlejuice.
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Was it Rio, by Duran Duran?
Beetlejuice it is! Thanks much folks! This must be the shortest thread ever!
Buy it, or rent it and watch it again.
Great movie!
FWIW, Beelejuice isn’t banished to hell so much as a bureaucratic sort of purgatory. And he’s not waiting to see the Devil, but his (Beetlejuice’s) “social worker” (for lack of a better choice of words).
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Right place, right time, no life. What can I say?
Juno, his “case worker”.
And one question I always had: They state in the movie that suicide victims become civil servants in the afterlife (affirmed by the secretary’s slit wrists). Did Juno also commit suicide? She appears to have died from smoking, based on all the smoke she blows through the holes in her neck.
Was it Beetlejuice?
I don’t think it was established that Juno (or any specific person) was gong to be Beetlejuice’s case worker at the end of the film, just that Beetlejuice had once been Juno’s assistant and she has less-than-fond memories of him.
I don’t recall it being established that the civil servants were suicides, either. Patrice Martinez’s character, the “Miss Argentina” receptionist, was apparently a suicide and one of her coworkers looked like he’d hanged himself, but another looked like he’d been run over by a heavy vehicle and others were just animated skeletons.
I assumed the holes in her neck were supposed to show that she had slit her throat.
I agree, her throat was slit. That doesn’t mean it was self inflicted.
I think it was Beelejuice, on a treadmill, at the bottom of Challenger Deep for 20 minutes, listening to “Rio” by Duran Duran.