Beetlejuice: parents' guide

A couple drown when their car plunges off a bridge. In the afterlife waiting room, a woman exhales smoke through a slit throat, another holds her severed head, and a third has suicide scars on her wrists. A sandworm and a snake-like ghoul attack.

One or two uses of the f-word depending on the guide, several s-words, and 'goddamn,' 'dammit,' 'hell' and 'piss off.' Infrequent, but strong for a PG.

No nudity, but crude sexual humor: Beetlejuice grabs his crotch, dry-humps, and stops at a brothel. He forces a kiss on a married woman, gropes her and lifts her skirt, all played for laughs, and schemes to make a teenage girl marry him.

Heavy cigarette smoking by the adult characters, some drinking, and a passing reference to the sedative Valium.

An eerie, ghoulish tone throughout: faces pulled off to show skulls and dangling eyeballs, a ghost pretending to hang from a noose, giant striped sandworms, and characters withering as they are exorcised. Mostly played for laughs.