Beetlejuice Brings Ghoulish Chaos in the New Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Trailer

The ghost with the most has broken free to wreak more afterlife mayhem on the living Deetz family. The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s horror comedy Beetlejuice—perfectly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice—arrives September 6, and we’ve got a fresh peek at the action in thanks to a brand-new trailer.

Michael Keaton (Birdman) slips right back into his iconic role as the chaotic bio-exorcist, summoned once again by the Deetz family when Lydia’s (Stranger Things’ Winona Ryder) daughter Astrid (Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega) becomes entangled in some dangerous purgatorial shenanigans. In the trailer, we see her reading a flyer she finds in the Maitland home attic that looks like a personal ad—which entices her to “exor-cise” her right to RIP, along with a hilarious sketch of you-know-who on a heart-shaped bed with the words “Looking for a love connection?” on top.

Here’s the latest trailer from legendary goth auteur Burton, who directs what looks like an imaginative sequel from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Wednesday).

Well, that looks like a frightfully funny feast of stop-motion—not to mention a return to the Burton wackiness that we’ve missed. We cannot wait to see more of Lydia and Astrid’s mother and daughter dynamic as the past from the original films is unleashed to haunt them. Astrid sharing she thinks the dead have it easier than the living feels on brand for the family. Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, The Nightmare Before Christmas) is also back as Delia Deetz, who we get to see coming face to face with Beetlejuice in the land of the dead, including the infamous waiting room.

Plus there are new new cast members played by Justin Theroux (The Leftovers),who tags along with Lydia as Beetlejuice keeps wooing her; Monica Bellucci (Spectre), as Beetlejuice’s wife who’s out to find him; Willem Dafoe (Poor Things), who shows up as a freaky case worker; and Arthur Conti (House of the Dragon). Seeing the clip of Dafoe with shrunken Beetlejuice head in the waiting room was fun—but it makes us wonder how the trickster demon ends up as a general manager of the dead (with a photo of teen Lydia on his desk).

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be a big event to usher in spooky season this year, opening in theaters September 6.

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