Vermont Public Specials
Finding the iconic 'Beetlejuice' house in East Corinth, Vermont
Season 2024 Episode 19 | 2m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
A tour through the Vermont town where the famous Beetlejuice movie and sequel were filmed.
There's been a lot of movies set in Vermont. But most of the time, they're not actually filmed here in part because Vermont doesn't offer tax credits to filmmakers. So when the Beetlejuice crew arrived in 2023, it was a big deal. The film takes place in the fictional town of Winter River, CT, but that didn’t stop the production of the sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, to return to East Corinth, VT.
Vermont Public Specials is a local public television program presented by Vermont Public
Vermont Public Specials
Finding the iconic 'Beetlejuice' house in East Corinth, Vermont
Season 2024 Episode 19 | 2m 11sVideo has Closed Captions
There's been a lot of movies set in Vermont. But most of the time, they're not actually filmed here in part because Vermont doesn't offer tax credits to filmmakers. So when the Beetlejuice crew arrived in 2023, it was a big deal. The film takes place in the fictional town of Winter River, CT, but that didn’t stop the production of the sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, to return to East Corinth, VT.
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-And I'm a huge, like, -Halloween -fan, so I was like, -I might as well -go check out East -Corinth while Im here.
-I watch Beetlejuice -every year.
-This has become -such a huge phenomenon.
-It's like a cult -classic now.
-Beetlejuice!
-The juice is loose.
-My mother was living here -when that first movie -was filmed.
-But of course, Alec Baldwin, -Tim Burton and -Gina Davis, none of them -were that well known.
-And they'd be sitting out -on my front lawn -and occasionally asked if -they could use the bathroom, -and I have tons of pictures -that I took.
-This is when they were -damming up the brook -so that they could drive the -Volvo over it.
-After the filming, we -!we were covered with tourists.
-People came in -dressed in goth.
-They came in -dressed as Beetlejuice.
-Can you explain to me what -the sandworms are again?
-Okay, well, we were trying -to find some way -for people to, easily -spot a point of interest.
-Because if you blink, -you're going to miss it.
-And so we made up these -little spiral traffic cones.
-It's kind of like a treasure -hunt.
-Over the years, theres -always somebody -coming in -looking for the house -and wondering -why it's not there.
-There's a lot of confusion -about where the house is.
-If you watch the movie -you think it's on what -is now Chicken Farm Road.
-It is in the movie, -but it's not in East Corinth.
-Miss Paula Jewell, -who just turned -94 this spring, -looking at her beautiful -farmhouse, -it's the big, round -grassy knob to the very left.
-And if -you stand in the right spot, -you're -looking at the farmhouse -and kind of down on one knee -and get back far enough, -you can transpose the picture -of the house -on top of the knoll.
-Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice.
-Beetlejuice.
Vermont Public Specials is a local public television program presented by Vermont Public