Sandworms feature prominently in the 1988 American fantasy-comedy-horror film, Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Company and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.

The plot of the film revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home, and an obnoxious, devious poltergeist named Betelgeuse (pronounced and occasionally spelled Beetlejuice in the movie and portrayed by Michael Keaton) from the Netherworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently. The Sandworms are from the Forbidden Zone of Saturn and hunt and chase ghosts who are caught in limbo. They are also a riff on the Sandworms of Dune, which the makers of Beetlejuice were apparently fans of.

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