Warning: The following contains mild spoilers for the Ghostbusters franchise.
Yes, Ghostbusters is a horror movie – gateway horror to be exact. Setting aside the fact that the title literally contains the word “ghost,” a foundational element of the scariest genre, the franchise follows a group of paranormal researchers who battle entities attacking from beyond the grave. After countless rewatches, the classic films and newer sequels may not scare us much anymore, but how many times have we as genre fans asserted that a film does not have to be “scary” to be considered horror?
Genre classification is nebulous and any film that centers on ghosts has a place in the sprawling house of horror. Yes, it’s true that most viewers over the age of thirteen will find more to laugh about than scream while watching a Ghostbusters film, but each entry contains a handful of terrifying moments. With Gil Kenan...
Yes, Ghostbusters is a horror movie – gateway horror to be exact. Setting aside the fact that the title literally contains the word “ghost,” a foundational element of the scariest genre, the franchise follows a group of paranormal researchers who battle entities attacking from beyond the grave. After countless rewatches, the classic films and newer sequels may not scare us much anymore, but how many times have we as genre fans asserted that a film does not have to be “scary” to be considered horror?
Genre classification is nebulous and any film that centers on ghosts has a place in the sprawling house of horror. Yes, it’s true that most viewers over the age of thirteen will find more to laugh about than scream while watching a Ghostbusters film, but each entry contains a handful of terrifying moments. With Gil Kenan...
- 3/28/2024
- by Jenn Adams
- bloody-disgusting.com
This Friday, the 5th of June, the Secret Cinema/Sofa screening is Ghostbusters – one of the greatest horror comedies of all time. It’s a film loved by millions, and quoted by even more – but how much do you really know about the film…?
Welcome friends to the Ultimate Ghostbusters Fan Quiz! Do you know your Gozer from your Gozerains? Can you name both the Keymaster And the gatekeeper? Do you believe in UFOs, astral projection, mental telepathy, Esp, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trans-mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Well, this is the place to prove it. Our resident Ghostbusters-expert Scott Davis has gone to great lengths, and scoured the deepest corners of Gb fandom to gather the following twenty questions to see if you too could be a Ghostbuster.
We’re focusing mainly on the first film, with a couple of questions about Ghostbusters 2.
Welcome friends to the Ultimate Ghostbusters Fan Quiz! Do you know your Gozer from your Gozerains? Can you name both the Keymaster And the gatekeeper? Do you believe in UFOs, astral projection, mental telepathy, Esp, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trans-mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Well, this is the place to prove it. Our resident Ghostbusters-expert Scott Davis has gone to great lengths, and scoured the deepest corners of Gb fandom to gather the following twenty questions to see if you too could be a Ghostbuster.
We’re focusing mainly on the first film, with a couple of questions about Ghostbusters 2.
- 6/3/2020
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Remember 1984’s “GhostSmashers” aka “GhostStoppers”? Of course you do. With a star-studded cast featuring John Belushi (Peter Venkman), Dan Aykroyd (Ray Stantz), Jeff Goldblum (Egon Spengler), Eddie Murphy (Winston Zeddemore), John Candy (Louis), Sandra Bernhard (Janine) and Paul Reubens (Ivo Shandar/Gozer), the future-set supernatural comedy in which roving teams of ghost catchers protect humanity from the supernatural, directed by Ivan Reitman, cost a whopping $300 million to make, featured hundreds of monsters, including a giant marshmallow man, and spawned not one but two sequels; the second of which got smoothly underway recently with the full, gracious participation of all of the original cast.
Ok, all of that happened in a parallel universe, where casting decisions went the other way, Dan Aykroyd’s original script got the green light, where perhaps dogs and cats live together in mass hysteria...but we got “Ghostbusters” instead. We wouldn't trade.
On the anniversary of...
Ok, all of that happened in a parallel universe, where casting decisions went the other way, Dan Aykroyd’s original script got the green light, where perhaps dogs and cats live together in mass hysteria...but we got “Ghostbusters” instead. We wouldn't trade.
On the anniversary of...
- 6/8/2012
- by Jessica Kiang
- The Playlist
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