The Beetlejuice sequel – Beetlejuice Beetlejuice – ensnared us all, starring Jenna Ortega, Catherine O'Hara, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton and more.
Since the much-awaited film returns to the fictional village of Winter River, Connecticut, we have to ask – where was Beetlejuice Beetlejuice filmed?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice filming locations
First off, the interior sets you see in the film – there are 77 of them, to be exact – were built in London's Leavesden Studios, where the Harry Potter film sets were also created.
But when it comes to the outdoor locations, the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice cast and crew revisited East Corinth in Vermont, where the original Beetlejuice film was made, to recreate Winter River. They also spent a few days filming in Massachusetts (some of which took place in Melrose, near Boston).
As well as the West River store, the schoolhouse, the streets where Astrid (Jenna Ortega) bikes and Jeremy (Jeremy Conti)'s home, the production team recreated the Deetz house – on the exact same hilltop – and the covered bridge from the original movie.
“We rebuilt the Deetz house on top of the hill. We rebuilt the covered bridge,” the movie's production designer Marc Scruton explained to Condé Nast Traveler. “The street with Maitland Hardware needed to expand into a much bigger row of shops. That’s quite a big undertaking for somewhere that has no real infrastructure. Luckily, the residents were all very game for it. We had to bring in a lot of people and a lot of equipment. We filled out all the hotels in the local area with our crew.”
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He also opened up about the circus of fans who showed up to watch filming. “It was such a lovely town, but there wasn’t much around. But honestly, when we shot there, it was like a festival," he said. "The word spread that we were shooting back at East Corinth and people were being bussed in from all over. We had to have crowd control. They would turn up early in the morning and be on lawn chairs when we arrived at 6am. A few people dressed up and showed up on horseback. There was some wild stuff.”
Winter River's graveyard and church was also filmed at a London location, in West Wickham in the south east of the city. “It was a beautiful little valley, which gave us the perfect environment to build it in," Scruton said. “We built the church and put the graveyard in.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice also filmed in Shoreditch in London – Protein Studios was the location for Delia (Catherine O'Hara)'s art gallery, as well as Princess Helena College in Hitchin (a decommissioned school) to portray Astrid's boarding school. The college was completely renovated to look like it belonged in the US.
Hellfire Caves – a network of man-made chalk and flint caverns in West Wycombe – is also listed as a filming location, with reports saying a funeral scene was filmed close by. We also know that a wedding scene was filmed in the Hertfordshire area.
But the only way to see how these sets and filming locations fit together into the story is to go see the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice movie. Run, don't walk.
