Beetlejuice rips off his suit and he runs away...but isn't seen at the end with all of them. Yet lived there before.
It makes sense that Beetlejuice killed him there
Ripping off his suit revealing another suit made no sense and was a nonsensical way to 'end' a main character who was so important to the plot and the focal driving force of the ending (exorcising the ghosts)
I don't think Otho lived there before. He was an interior decorator and visited often. It may have taken some time to do all his work there.
It seemed to me the forced transition to the blue (probably polyester) 1970s leisure suit was horrifying because it was so out of style at that time, and now considered grotesque. Otho was very style conscious, being a Manhattan decorator.
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Talk of Otho reminds me of this: what he recites during the seance at the end made me curious as to its origin, so I looked around, and the trivia section here states that it's a real poem. After more digging, it turns out the first half that Otho says is not from this early 1800s piece by Beddoes, which seems not to be called The Warning, but rather Voices in the Air. Here is the real thing:
As sudden thunder
Pierces night;
As magic wonder,
Wild affright,
Rives asunder
Men's delight:
Our ghost, our corpse; and we
Rise to be.
As flies the lizard
Serpent fell;
As goblin vizard,
At the spell
Of the wizard,
Sinks to hell:
Our life, our laugh, our lay
Pass away.
As wake the morning
Trumpets bright;
As snow-drop, scorning
Winter's might,
Rises warning
Like a spright:
We buried, dead, and slain
Rise again.
From an Internet version of the Beetlejuice script, here are the words Otho speaks in the movie:
Hands vermillion / start of five
bright cotillion / raven's dive
nightshades promise / spirit's strive,
to the living / let now the dead...
come alive.
As sudden thunder / Pierces the night;
As magic wonder / Mad affright
Rives asunder / Man's delight:
Our ghost, our corpse and we
Rise to be.
As flies the lizard / Serpent fell;
As goblin vizard, / At the spell
Of pale wizard, / Sinks to hell;
The buried, dead, and slain...
Rise again.
So did the screenwriters just make up different lines, or is there some origin story that explains it all?
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Maybe it's implied he committed suicide. He is so scared of Beetlejuice and what he did to him that he commits suicide.
shareWell, he does fall down the stairs after getting snaked by Beetlejuice, he died in real life when he fell down in his own home....
That's ironic isn't it? Life imitates art; art imitates death. Rest in peace Glenn Shadix
More like you should cringe and get chills up your spine when Beetlejuice as a snake trips him on the stairs!
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