Halloween Special: Ghost Busters (1984) ~ Unrequited Screen

Director: Ivan Reitman; Screenplay: Dan Aykroyd & Harold Ramis; Cinematography: Laszlo Kovacs

Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver

Ghost Busters represents my ultimate childhood memory, when the understandment of life was limited only with the amount of curiosity. When a mind didn’t think of it as ridiculous rather than an endless possibility. Ghost Busters to most of the world is seen as great entertainment with a light subject that in real life needs no addressing. It is or more it can be. But as of looking at a different perspective it is a story about inner demons. Though this can be called ridiculous and be said that you see a story that you need to see. I feel like our society is at a place right now where we need to see how the monsters inside us look and Ghost Busters is a good analogy for it. But we’re not here to do a psychiatry evaluation on the society. So lets talk business.

Bill Murray has always been my childhood hero as I remember seeing him in The Groundhog Day where he was as brilliant as he is in Ghost Busters. Him being the driving force of the whole movie even now more than 25 years later managing to come off as a fresh character. He is just priceless.

I don’t think there was an actor who didn’t bring their A game though Winston Zeddmore was either a very underused character or an unnecessary one as I recall him having 4 to 5 lines that all were quite forced in and not very original. As if the writers thought like “I’ve always wanted to use that line in a script, let’s have Zeddmore say it on the most ridiculous moments.” I haven’t really ever enjoyed Sigourney Weaver anywhere is any decade but kudos to her playing off the possessed sexy gatekeeper. It’s hard to play a horny parallel universe demon. I always have to double-check how to spell her name. Would have no problem with that if she only had changed her name in the 80s from Sigourney to Ziggy Weaver.

Frank thought that the ghosts were actually cute. Yeah, I see that too. The ghost in the library was especially fluffy and cuddleable. How could you not love that?

Well the green blob was… not scary? I didn’t exactly find it cute but it didn’t scare the shiz out of me either.

Ghost Busters would have been nothing without the witty lines and silly dazzling expressions. A wonderful portrayal by Rick Moranis gave so much sweetness to the whole rather insane scientist bunch by adding a factor of simplicity.

The level of awesomeness always upped a bit when the Ghost Busters original tech stuff was brought in. Frank is still bothering the tech store clerks by asking if the vacuum cleaner also has an option to capture ghosts.

Ghost Busters is a classic and we wish it to remain in the watch lists of the younger generation. You can never go wrong with it when you need to raise your mood as it reeks with dreadful positivity with the biggest danger of all in the Ghost Busters universe is the marshmallow man.