Fenway Park will celebrate the spooky season by screening Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” on its Halloween Movie Night Oct. 26.
Presented by Alamo Drafthouse, the film will be shown on the 40-by-100-foot video board in Fenway Park. The screening will begin at 6:30 p.m.
“We hope that people who were obsessed over Halloween just can come and have a really great night,” said Mike Sampson, the director of field marketing at Alamo Drafthouse.
In order to enter the ballpark to watch Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, people are required to purchase movie tickets. The tickets cost $10 for adults, $5 for children and free for children under 2. People can buy tickets through the Red Sox official website.
Before the movie is shown, there are several free festive activities that are open to the public.
People can participate in trick-or-treating from 3:30 to 6 p.m. around the warning track and can freely enter the stadium via gate B.
There will be several balloon artists, face painters and the stilt walker “Big League Brian” present during the events. Additionally, the official mascot for the Red Sox, Wally the Green Monster, will also be there.
People are encouraged to wear costumes. The most outstanding and creative costumes will be selected for prizes awarded by Warner Bros. Discovery.
“People will be able to be in Fenway, an iconic institution in Boston, and not just in that space but on the field to do all of those activities just seems like a really fun and cool experience,” said Sampson.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is an American dark fantasy comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton, an Oscar nominee. The film opened the 81st Venice International Film Festival in August of this year before it was officially released a month later in America and many other countries.
This is the second part of Burton’s 1988 film Beetlejuice. After the success of the first part, even though there was a plan for the sequel of the film, it was delayed and faced several problems for many years. This plan did not really progress until 2022 when Tim Burton decided to collaborate with Plan E Entertainment to produce the second part of the film.
Sampson said the movie can attract people in different generations.
“It’s the kind of movie I think that parents who grew up with the original when they were younger really came back and loved this movie,” he said. “They introduced a whole new generation of kids into it who also connected with it in a big way.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice features several familiar actors from the first part, such as Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara. There is also a return of Michael Keaton, an Oscar nominee, in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. However, the film also has a new cast, including Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe.
Picking up where the first film left off 36 years ago, Lydia Deetz is now a mother. After the death of her father, Lydia and Astrid Deetz, her daughter, return to Winter River, Connecticut, to attend his funeral. Lydia is still haunted by her fear of Beetlejuice.
Things only get more chaotic when Astrid accidentally opens a portal to the afterlife. After being tricked into entering the afterlife. She also signed a deadly contract to help another soul. Therefore, in order to save her daughter, Lydia must seek help from Beetlejuice.
Sampson said that this event would be a great opportunity for college students to watch “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”.
“The movie is still playing in theaters and also on VOD, but that’s all at a premium price, and college students and young adults can come to this event to see this movie at a relatively discounted rate, hang out at the ballpark and take part in some really great activities that are gonna be there,” he said.
This is the second event that Alamo Drafthouse has presented this year as a part of its partnership with the Boston Red Sox. One of them is the summer Fenway Park movie night this past July, which featured a screening of Star Wars.
However, Sampson said that the Halloween Movie Night will bring the audience a completely different experience.
“Normally, when we do things screening like this, they are classical screenings, what we would call repertory screening like Star Wars or last year with Hocus Pocus,” he said. “So to do like a newer movie felt like something new and exciting and certainly a way for people to see the movie that I’m sure they had never seen before.”
Even if people have seen it in theaters already, Sampson said that to be able to watch it on the big screen in Fenway with thousands of people all in costumes will be a special experience.
