Behind the Scenes: SFX and dynamic lighting merge worlds in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Tim Burton and Michael Keaton’s return to the fantasy horror comedy hit is lensed by Greek-Cypriot cinematographer Haris Zambarloukos. Adrian Pennington reports.

When director Tim Burton sat down with his cinematographer to discuss a sequel to 1988’s cult hit Beetlejuice he told Haris Zambarloukos (BSC); ‘I’ve already made that film’.

“There’s a world already set up, there is a precedent there but he didn’t want to breathe life into old bodies. He wanted to treat each scene of the new film on its own terms,” says the DoP of his first experience working with Burton. Zambarloukos regularly composes films with Kenneth Branagh including spooky house feature A Haunting in Venice (2023). He says the Edward Scissorhands director knows what he wants...

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