54 Facts About Ghostbusters

Ghostbusters is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.

Ghostbusters was followed in 1989 by Ghostbusters II, which fared less well financially and critically, and attempts to develop a second sequel paused in 2014 following Ramis's death.

Ghostbusters's recounts witnessing a demonic dog-like creature in her refrigerator utter a single word: "Zuul".

The Ghostbusters are hired to remove a gluttonous ghost, Slimer, from the Sedgewick Hotel.

Supernatural activity rapidly increases across the city and the Ghostbusters become famous; they hire a fourth member, Winston Zeddemore, to cope with the growing demand.

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Peck returns with law enforcement and city workers to have the Ghostbusters arrested and their containment unit deactivated, causing an explosion that releases the captured ghosts.

Ghostbusters was inspired by Dan Aykroyd's fascination with and belief in the paranormal, which he inherited from his father, who had written the book A History of Ghosts; his mother, who claimed to have seen ghosts; his grandfather, who experimented with radios to contact the dead; and his great-grandfather, a renowned spiritualist.

Ghostbusters was drawn to the idea of modernizing the comedic ghost films of the mid-20th century by comics such as Abbott and Costello, Bob Hope and the Bowery Boys .

Ghostbusters turned to another former SNL castmate, Bill Murray, who agreed to join without an explicit agreement, which is how he often worked.

Ghostbusters likened the Ghostbusters to pest-control workers, saying that "calling a Ghostbuster was just like getting rats removed".

Ghostbusters suggested that setting it entirely on Earth would make the extraordinary elements funnier, and that focusing on realism from the beginning would make the Marshmallow Man more believable by the end.

Ghostbusters wanted to portray the Ghostbusters' origins before starting their business: "This was beginning of the 1980s—everyone was going into business".

Ghostbusters said the film would take a big budget due to its special effects and popular cast.

Ghostbusters's concept called for the Ghostbusters to have a boss and to be directed into situations, but Ramis preferred they be in control "of their own destiny" and make their own choices.

Ghostbusters took the character's first name from a Hungarian refugee with whom he attended school, and the surname from German historian Oswald Spengler.

Ghostbusters's revealed her comedic background, developed at the Yale School of Drama, and began walking on all fours and howling like a dog during her audition.

Ghostbusters told Reitman he did not understand the character and suggested portraying Tully with a German accent and multiple German Shepherds, but the filmmakers felt there were already enough dogs in the film.

Ghostbusters's quickly changed out of her street clothes and borrowed a pair of glasses worn by the set dresser which her character subsequently wore throughout the film.

Ghostbusters score was composed by Elmer Bernstein and performed by the 72-person Hollywood Studio Symphony orchestra at The Village in West Los Angeles, California.

Ghostbusters created an "antic" theme for the Ghostbusters he described as "cute, without being really way out".

Ghostbusters found the latter parts of the film easier to score, aiming to make it sound "awesome and mystical".

Ghostbusters regained the number one spot the following week before spending the next five weeks at number two, behind the action film Red Dawn and then the thriller Tightrope.

Ghostbusters surpassed Animal House as the highest-grossing comedy film ever, until Beverly Hills Cop surpassed it six months later.

Ghostbusters was re-released in the U S and Canada in August 1985, earning a further $9.

Ghostbusters cited Ghostbusters as a rare mainstream film with many quotable lines.

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Ghostbusters felt they reached for more creative humor and genuine thrills instead.

Ghostbusters complained about the finale, claiming it lost its sense of fun and was "overblown", but found the film compensated for this since it "has ghosts like you've never seen".

Janet Maslin agreed that the apocalyptic finale was out of hand, saying Ghostbusters worked best during the smaller ghost-catching scenes.

Ghostbusters singled out editors Sheldon Kahn and David Blewitt for creating a sustained pace of comedy and action.

Ghostbusters's praised Murray, but felt other actors did not have much material to contribute to the story; she concluded, "Murray's lines fall on dead air".

Ghostbusters's noted that many of the characters had little to do, leaving their stories unresolved as the plot began to give way to servicing the special effects instead.

Ghostbusters was nominated for two Academy Awards in 1985: Best Original Song for "Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker Jr.

Ghostbusters described the success as a phenomenon that would forever be his biggest accomplishment and, compounded by the failure of his personal project The Razor's Edge, he felt "radioactive".

Ghostbusters regretted the marginalization of his character from the original script and felt Ghostbusters did not improve his career as he had hoped, or been promised.

Paramount Pictures had scheduled the equally popular Beverly Hills Cop to release the day before Ghostbusters, forcing Columbia to release it a week earlier to avoid direct competition.

Ghostbusters was released in 1989 on LaserDisc, a format then experiencing a resurgence in popularity.

Ghostbusters was the first full-length film to be released on a USB flash drive when PNY Technologies did so in 2008.

The unexpected success of Ghostbusters meant Columbia did not have a comprehensive merchandising plan in place to fully capitalize on the film at the peak of its popularity.

Ghostbusters had worked in the private sector where "they expect results".

Corcos suggests the Ghostbusters are an example of the American free-thinker, representing vigilantes fighting against government overreach that is worsening the issue.

Ghostbusters was created at the beginning of an economic recovery that Clare described as "pure capitalism", focused on the privatization and deregulation to allow the private sector to supplant the government.

Ghosts in Ghostbusters have been interpreted as analogs for crime, homelessness, pollution, and faltering infrastructure and public services.

Ghostbusters's wrote that the ghosts represent pollutants, remnants of environmental damage, and a reflection of real-life governments refusing to acknowledge environmental problems that affect humanity.

The Environmental Protection Agency explicitly does not believe in the ghosts or "waste" the Ghostbusters are collecting and, in turn, the Ghostbusters do not believe the EPA deserves obedience or compliance because of its ignorance.

Ghostbusters is considered one of the first blockbusters and is credited with refining the term to effectively create a new genre that mixed comedy, science fiction, horror, and thrills.

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Ghostbusters confirmed the merchandising success of Star Wars was not a fluke.

Once Ghostbusters popularity was clear, the studio aggressively cultivated its profile, translating it into merchandising and other media such as television, extending its profitable lifetime long after the film had left theaters.

The Ghostbusters theme song was a hit, and Halloween of 1984 was dominated by children dressed as the titular protagonists.

In 1984, the Ghostbusters phenomenon was referred to across dozens of advertisements for everything from airlines to dentistry and real estate.

Ghostbusters quickly developed a dedicated fan following that has continued to thrive in the years since.

Ghostbusters was turned into a special-effects laden stage show at Universal Studios Florida, which ran from 1990 to 1996, based mainly on the final battle with Gozer.

Ghostbusters is considered one of the best films of the 1980s, appearing on several lists based on this metric, including: number two by Film.

Film's success spawned the Ghostbusters franchise, comprising animated television shows, film sequels, and reboot.

Ghostbusters was followed by the 1986 animated television series The Real Ghostbusters.