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The Haunting of Heck House: Directed by Stan Phillips, Will Meugniot. With Dave Coulier, Buster Jones, Maurice LaMarche, Kath Soucie. Peter tells the story of how the Ghostbusters could have earned a million dollars by staying in a haunted house overnight without their proton packs.
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- Animation, Action, Comedy
- Stan Phillips, Will Meugniot
- 1990-09-29
- Overview
- Cast
- Plot
- Trivia
- References
In The Haunting of Heck House, in a flashback, the Ghostbusters recount their most dangerous exploit: the time they spent the night in Heck House, the most haunted house on the planet, inhabited by thousands of ghosts! For their troubles they are to receive a million dollars apiece, provided they survive the evening until dawn... without their Prot...
Fifth Grade Visitors
Peter Venkman
Slimer
Jeffers Marston
Egon Spengler
Ray Stantz
A fifth grade class visited the Firehouse and ran rampant. Surprisingly, they were greeted by Peter and Slimer. Peter revealed the others were giving a lecture and Janine had the day off. Peter decided to spend the day cleaning up. Two boys looked through the stuff piled on Peter's desk. They gazed at a snow globe. Peter noticed and told them it was a souvenir from one of the Ghostbusters' most dangerous cases. On a Thursday night, a man named Jeffers Marston paid a visit to the Firehouse and tracked in some mud. Jeffers proposed a rare opportunity, Heck House. Ray and Egon recognized the name right away and tried to walk away. Janine and Winston implored them to explain. For 50 years, no one has stayed the night at Heck House and survived. Ray recalled one of his professors stayed half the night and became a drooling mess. Egon refused to go to Heck House. Jeffers revealed $1 million would go to anyone who could stay the night from dusk to dawn without a Proton Pack. He represented E. Henry Merriweather, a wealthy man and former adventurer in the supernatural who recently passed away. In his will, Merriweather left the money to the Ghostbusters if they could overcome his challenge.
Peter relented the Ghostbusters could handle anything. Winston thought of buying a quantum chain for Ecto-1, Peter wanted a Porsche, and Ray, an osmotic processor. Egon still absolutely refused to go. Jeffers, Slimer, and the Ghostbusters soon arrived at Heck House. Once they entered, Jeffers asked how long ago sundown was. Ray answered it took place two minutes ago. The Ghostbusters watched as Jeffers raced to his car and took off. As Peter rallied the others in the front foyer, a chandelier nearly fell on them. In a guest room, Ray outsmarted a haunted light switch and was oblivious of a bed waiting to eat him. Ray heard Winston and ran out into the hall. Winston's room was arranged upside down. Ray invited Winston to sleep in his room. Egon sat in a library and was alone until Peter checked in on him. Peter teased Egon about their first case and all those flying books. After Peter left, a book slowly lurched out of its place. Egon warned it not to even try.
While Peter and Slimer passed down a hallway adorned with suits of armor, Slimer was sucked into a hidden passage. Slimer was accosted by giant dancing skeletons. Slimer forced his way out but bumped into a demonic horseman. He hid from the horseman and was spooked by a giant black cat then a pack of Spectral Dogs. Slimer eventually made it back into the hallway. Peter, nonchalantly, continued with his story then walked away. A painting morphed into a ghost and scared Slimer, too. As the Ghostbusters reunited for some sandwiches, Ray mumbled to himself. Peter revealed Slimer was clinging to one of his legs. Egon determined he wasn't classified to help and announced Heck House was home to 2,436 ghosts. The most haunted house on record was the Crowley House in London and it only had 25 ghosts. Slimer flew through a wall upon hearing the revelation. Ray snapped out of it and questioned how there could be so many ghosts when only a dozen people ever lived in it. The guys returned to the foyer and discovered all the exits were bricked up.
Peter used a pick axe and knocked a brick out but it simply went back into the wall. Winston was fed up and reminded the guys they had to use their wits to win. Egon returned to the library to figure out where the ghosts came from in order to beat them. Peter vowed all they had to do was stay together. The lights went out temporarily and both Ray and Winston were missing. Peter pulled up his sleeves and marched onward to save them. The chair Slimer sat on came to life and held him down with its arms. Winston encountered several Dark Knights who invited him to join the hunt. Winston turned down the offer and stole on of their horses. Ray landed on a pile of laundry and confronted several Sheet Ghosts. Ray tricked them into jumping into the dryer but a towel dispenser wrapped him up like a mummy. Back in the library, Egon was frustrated with the lack of answers then suddenly realized the truth. Peter knocked a knight off his horse and took over then caught up to Winston. They rode towards a landscape painting but bailed at the last second. The knights leaped into the painting and vanished. Ray stumbled into the room but Peter mistook him for another ghost. Winston say the Ghostbusters shoulder patch and stopped Peter. The trio's reunion was cut short when a dragon ghost approached. Slimer managed to break free from the chair as well.
•The episode is a tribute to the work of two writers, Shirley Jackson and Richard Matheson who both contributed to the horror genre.
•The episode was recorded on April 4, 1990.
•The title and plot is a play on the famous 1959 novel "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson and the similar 1971 novel "Hell House."
•This episode was story boarded by Kazumi Fukushima, Will Meugniot, Steve Moore, Brad Rader, Vince Waller, and Stan Phillips. The revised storyboards were done on March 22, 1990 and the Final version on March 30, 1990.
•The voice cast recorded this episode on April 4, 1990.
•Before Jeffers can finish making his pitch, Peter mentions Elvis Presley in jest.
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The Real Ghostbusters Season 6 Episode 4The Haunting of Heck House Episode aired December Sep 29, 1990 • TV-7 • ~ 30 minsPeter tells the story of how the Gho...
Heck House is the Mount Everest of haunted houses, the most frightening one in the world - built by Jonas Heck. Over a period of 50 years, no paranormal investigator could stay the night at Heck House and live to tell about it. Jonas Heck wanted to build the most haunted house in the world. Heck...
Slimer breaks free of the chair, then in the library, Egon revealed that the previous owner, Joshua Heck, deliberately created the world's most haunted house by enchanting 2,346 books of ghost stories to come to life.
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In flashback, the Ghostbusters recount their most dangerous exploit: the time they spent the night in Heck House, the most haunted house on the planet, inhabited by thousands of ghosts! For their troubles they are to receive a million dollars apiece, provided they survive the evening until dawn, without their Proton Packs!
