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Speaking of Tim Burton, I was thinking about what it would be like if Michael Keaton was in a horror movie...then remembered Beetlejuice still hasn't dropped has it? I'm honestly surprised it's so well-liked, but it could be since the first thing that comes to mind about the movie is Siskel & Ebert both panning it. I do genuinely like the movie but mostly on the level of a live-action cartoon than anything. For me it would be like a 7/10 while Poltergeist is an 8/10 and Gremlins is 8-9/10. And maybe I'm thinking of Gremlins positively because Siskel & Ebert both recommended it, but Gremlins and Poltergeist also seem to make best-of lists more often to me.

Also frankly Beetlejuice doesn't belong here. It's at best as much a horror movie as Ghostbusters. Okay, it does follow a lot of horror movie conventions, but they both still operate on the rule of subverting every scare into a farce. An American Werewolf in London is kind of that too but it tries to be scary a lot more than those two.