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Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick ...
- There Really Was A Professor Spengler
- The Sumerians Were A Real People
- You Can Obtain A Degree in Parapsychology
- There Was A Tunguska Blast
- Tobin's Spirit Guide Is A Real Book … Now
- The Stay-Puft Man Is The Child of The Pillsbury Doughboy and The Michelin Man
- Some of The New York Locations Are Real
- Zuul Is A Real Creature and Existed Millions of Years Ago
- Ectoplasm Is Real
- Proton Packs Will Exist Someday
Although not a doctor, the historian and philosopher Oswald Spengler was an inspiration for Ramis in naming his character, the introverted “brains” of the Ghostbusters, Egon Spengler. The first name Egon came from Egon Donsbach, a foreign exchange student that went to highschool with Ramis. The Spengler name will play a role in this summer’s Ghostb...
The Sumerians wandered around Mesopotamia in 2800 BC, building rudimentary cities and developing their agricultural skills. Although they didn’t worship Gozer, as Dr. Venkman implies, they traveled the known-world, imagining monsters and demigods were in their midst. According to historians, Sumerian civilization is a bit of a lost culture, so mayb...
There’s a moment early on in Ghostbusters, where Dr. Venkman (Bill Murray) is trying to establish his ghost-hunting credentials, telling EPA Inspector Walter Peck that he holds degrees in “both psychology and parapsychology.” It's a scene where the screenwriters are looking to give Dr. Venkman some gravitas and establish Peck as the antagonist. Mos...
Once the Ghostbusters have vanquished Gozer and the marshmallow ooze starts to dissolve, Dr. Stantz (Ackroyd) tells formerly demon-possessed accountant Tully that he unwillingly participated in “the biggest interdimensional cross rip since the Tunguska Blast of 1909." That certainly sounds like a memorable event. It turns out there was a huge explo...
Early in the film, doctors Spengler and Stantz refer to “Tobin’s Spirit Guide”, as if it was some sort of textbook for paranormal studies, or a common reference guide a scientist would use like the periodic table or Gray’s Anatomy. Although Tobin's Spirit Guide didn’t exist in 1984 - it does now. According to Amazon, this fictional account of all t...
The gigantic Stay-Puft attacked New York in 1984 in Godzilla-like fashion - right down to the actor in the suit that portrayed him onscreen (sorry to spoil the illusion). True, Mr. Stay-Puft didn't exist before his starring role in Ghostbusters- but he was inspired by real-life characters, the Michelin Man and the Pillsbury Doughboy. The change to ...
New York, New York can be a pretty frightening place, with petty crime, disaffected citizens, and the occasional hungry green ghost wandering the streets. Ghostbustersgave moviegoers a sense of the dark corners of the city, by focusing on spooking architecture and dilapidated structures. But some of these buildings are real, and still exist in New ...
In 1984, the monstrous Zuul terrorized Central Park in New York, appearing on rooftops and in refrigerators alike. This dog-like creature represented the Hounds of Hell, guarding the demigod Gozer as she summoned the end-times. Our heroes defeated Gozer and Zuul, and the monsters were banished to another dimension. Thanks to some adventurous paleon...
Ghostbusterswon audiences over and brought the entire funny/scary story to ahead early on, when our heroes are attacked by a goofy green ghost in the halls of an upscale hotel, causing Dr. Venkman (Bill Murray) to utter the famous line: “He slimed me.” His colleagues quickly rush in to get a sample of the “ectoplasmic residue”, a slimy substance th...
When the Ghostbustersdonned an “unlicensed nuclear accelerator” on their backs, a memorable costume was born, and cosplayers forevermore grappled with the design of the Proton Packs. In the movie, they were used extensively to subdue and trap ghostly apparitions, but few have been able to duplicate this feat in the real world. But there is hope; th...
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Sep 13, 2016 · Meanwhile, Columbia produced its own cartoon series using the characters from the movie and, to emphasize the official-ness of the project, entitled it The Real Ghostbusters. (It made its debut 30 ...
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- DAN A YKROYD FOUND INSPIRATION FOR THE MOVIE IN HIS FAMILY'S HISTORY. Dan Aykroyd grew up surrounded by spiritualists. His great-grandfather, Samuel A. Aykroyd, was a noted nineteenth century psychic investigator who conducted séances at the Aykroyd family farmhouse in eastern Ontario with a medium named Walter Ashurst.
- GHOSTBUSTERS COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH DIFFERENT—AND MUCH BIGGER. Aykroyd found comedic inspiration in films like Bob Hope's The Ghost Breakers, the horror-comedies of Abbott and Costello, and Bowery Boys fare like Spook Busters and Ghost Chasers.
- JOHN BELUSHI STILL APPEARS IN THE F INAL FILM, IN SPIRIT. Part of the reason Aykroyd had to recontextualize and rethink his idea—other than its implausible potential budget—was the tragic death of his fellow former SNL castmate John Belushi, whom he envisioned as the sarcastic Peter Venkman.
- THE MOVIE HAD TO BE MADE IN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. Once Aykroyd nailed down the general concept and the narrative of the film (but before he'd penned the final draft), he brought on Ivan Reitman, not only to direct, but also to sell the movie to a major motion picture studio.
Ghostbusters: Directed by Ivan Reitman. With Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis. Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.
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- Action, Comedy, Fantasy
- Ivan Reitman
- 1984-06-08
Ghostbusters was a box office hit, prompting Columbia Pictures to produce an animated series based on the film, The Real Ghostbusters (renamed to avoid a conflict with Filmation's existing cartoon, Ghostbusters), as well as to seek out a sequel. Aykroyd and Ramis had not been conformable with a sequel, believing the first film was meant to be self-contained, but eventually agreed.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Directed by Jason Reitman. With Carrie Coon, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace. When a single mom and her two kids arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
