Ghostbusters

(USA, 1984, 105 mins)

Producer: Ivan Reitman
Screenwriters: Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis
Cinematographer: Laszlo Kovacs
Editors: David Blewitt, Sheldon Kahn
Cast: Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, William Atherton, Ernie Hudson
Music: Elmer Bernstein

“If there’s something strange in your neighborhood, who you gonna call?” In the summer of 1984, that question was unavoidable. Now, 25 years later, as the internet is all abuzz with Ghostbusters III rumors, it’s the perfect time to revisit one of the funniest comedies of the Eighties.

Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis star as former university researchers who decide to become paranormal entrepreneurs when New York is besieged by supernatural forces. From the New York Public Library to a faux Algonquin Hotel to Sigourney Weaver’s refrigerator in her Central Park West apartment, they fight off otherworldly forces, spectral slimers, and an evil EPA agent (it was the Reagan years, after all) until they meet their ultimate challenge—the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.

Murray is right out in front, giving what has become one of his iconic performances, but he’s far from alone. Aykroyd, Ramis, Weaver, Rick Moranis, Annie Potts, and Ernie Hudson (Ghostbuster’s answer to Zeppo Marx) all add to the film’s communal sense of humor, pitched somewhere between casual subversiveness and inspired lunacy. The end of the world has never been funnier.

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