PHOTO BY KRISTY GRAVER

Nick Mancini Hartner has a strange and unusual hobby: bread art.

The co-owner of Mancini’s Bakery in McKees Rocks sculpts the Italian dough on a flat baking sheet, pops it in the oven for a few hours and paints the masterpiece with food coloring.

His latest creation is “Breadle Juice,” a tribute to the 1988 movie “Beetlejuice” and its sequel starring Pittsburgh native Michael Keaton. The toast with the most is 4-by-4-feet and weighs 140 pounds and had to be tilted at a 45-degree angle to fit through the door.

It’s on display at Mancini’s Strip District location through Halloween — or until it starts to crumble. Hartner regularly coats it in olive oil to prevent it from drying out, but by November it’ll be as hard as a tombstone.

Nobody’s going to be eatin’ this Keaton. (If you want Beetlejuice vibes with your meal, check out Main Street Diner & Kickback Cafe in Lawrenceville.)

Over the years, Hartner’s created more than 20 sculptures, from The Grinch and an alligator to a leg lamp and a Night of the Living Bread zombie. This Dough Van Gogh also baked an enormous bun to house an 111-pound Wholey’s fish sandwich.

For Mancini’s centennial anniversary in 2026, Hartner is planning to make several large-scale works.

Until then, he’s looking for ways to preserve his bread art so it has an afterlife.