I just always thought she was just probably in her own world as she got older.

Just sort of in the attic and happy, but alone.

There, the rebellious teen discovers a portal to the afterlife and unwittingly unleashes the titular ghoul.

Winona Ryder looks shocked in a blue-lit still from ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.

Winona Ryder in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ (2024).Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection

‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’: What the critics are saying

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder inBeetlejuice(1988). (Warner Brothers/Courtesy Everett Collection)