14 Beetlejuice Quotes to Help Juice Up Your Halloween Copywriting and Content

Just in time for Halloween...here are a few quick copywriting and content tips from the 'ghost with the most.' Of course, these Beetlejuice quotes are from the original 1988 classic, not the very belated sequel, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, which was released worldwide in October 2024. Here's your chance to infuse your copywriting or content such as blogs, articles or emails (or try opening a PPT presentation with "It's showtime!"or brainstorming session with Harry Belafonte's Banana song. That should keep people wide awake. After all, why should B2C have all the fun?).

"Our offer is so good, you can repeat it three times: Nothing will happen to you, and the offer will still be good."

(In case you're one of the few who didn't see the original, saying Beetlejuice three times conjures up...well, Beetlejuice.)

"If you act now, you get a free demon possession with every exorcism - or if you prefer, 20% discount with this coupon!"

It's all about the added value...

"Go ahead, make my millennium"

Take a well-known quote and add a Beetlejuice twist to it. I mean, why not have a subject line such as "go ahead [name], make your millenium?"

"Let's turn on the juice and see what shakes loose" - great for a ghoulish CTA, such as: "Click here to....[claim/get/enter/enter an extra..."

It's showtime!

On many occasions, you don't need a lot of words.A strong image and a sentence or two (or even none) will suffice, like with this Mars Halloween ad:

"A little gasoline...blowtorch...no problem."

Looking for a DIY creative blog headline? There you go. Taking an extreme situation an simplifying it in a matter-of-fact way can go a long way.

"I am alone."

Rewrites: "I am utterly alone."

Before clicking on "publish" or "send," take another few minutes. Sit back, take a walk. Sometimes inspiration can hit you and you can make a good sentence even better.

"These aren't my rules. Come to think of it, I don't have any rules."

You're the copywriter/content creator. Remember the old adage? Rules are made to be broken. As long as they make sense.

"My whole life is a darkroom."

"...But everything changed once I started using/practicing/eating..."

Or if you're a company:

"Our company's [department/service/process] was a darkroom. But everything changed once we started..." etc. You get the idea.

"I've seen The Exorcist 167 times, and it keeps getting funnier every single time!"

People loev success stories. They don't like boring success stories. But if watching a creepy movie a zillion times helped get you inspired, they'd love to hear about it...

"Never trust the living. Or [termites in your basement/bad internet connection/service provider" etc.

Now there's an attention-grabber.

"This is what happens when you die."

Copywriting 101: You take a problem, and you simplify it creatively.

"Don't you hate it when that happens?"

Everyone appreciates when you bring simple, real-life expamples that they know well. Like when a ghoul gets stuck in a Jack O' Lantern. Or debating which candy bars have less of a chance to melt.

"Attention K-Mart shoppers!"

Sometimes, basic works best.