Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is a 1984 film, about three unemployed parapsychology professors who start a business exterminating ghosts. It was followed by a sequel, Ghostbusters II, in 1989.
They're Here To Save The World.taglines
- Directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
Dialogue
- Dr. Egon Spengler: This is big, Peter. There's definitely something here.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: You know Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole in your head. Remember?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
- Man at Elevator: What are you supposed to be, some kind of a cosmonaut?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [chuckles] No, we're exterminators. Someone saw a cockroach up on twelfth.
- Man at Elevator: That's gotta be some cockroach.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Bite your head off, man.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: [entering elevator] Going up?
- Man at Elevator: I'll take the next one.
- [Spengler and Stantz nearly fry a cleaning maid with their proton streams.]
- Cleaning Maid: What the hell are you doin'?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry...
- Dr. Ray Stantz: I'm sorry...
- Dr. Peter Venkman: We thought you were someone else. (turns to the other two) Successful test.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: I guess so... um, I think we should split up.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: I agree.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah, we can do more damage that way.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [nervously staring down Slimer, he turns on his radio slowly] Come in, Ray.
- Dr. Rawmond Stantz: Venkman? I saw it, I saw it, I saw it!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: It's right here, Ray. It's looking at me.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Ugly little spud, isn't he?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I think he can hear you, Ray.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Don't move. It won't hurt you.
- [Venkman screams as Slimer attacks him]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Venkamn! Venkman! Venkman! Pete! Are you okay?
- [Stantz runs over to find Venkman on the floor covered in slime but otherwise unharmed]
- Dr. Peter Venkman: He slimed me.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: That's great! Actual physical contact! Can you move?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: [over walkie-talkie] Ray, come in, please.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I feel so funky.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: Spengler? I'm with Venkman. He got slimed!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: That's great Ray, save some for me . You better get down here right away. It just went into a ballroom.
- Dr. Egon Spengler: There's something very important I forgot to tell you.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Don't cross the streams.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I'm a little fuzzy on the whole "good/bad" thing here. What do you mean, "bad"?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
- Dr. Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: That's bad. Okay. All right, important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Everything was fine until our power grid was shut off by Dickless here.
- Walter Peck: They caused an explosion!
- Mayor: [To Peter] Is this true?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Yes, it's true... This man has no dick. [Peck lunges at Venkman but is kept away by others] Well, that's what I heard!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, you can believe Mr. Pecker.
- Walter Peck: My name is "Peck".
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Or you can accept the fact that this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
- Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath-of-God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the sky! Rivers and seas boiling!
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
- Winston Zeddmore: The dead rising from the grave!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria!
- Mayor: Enough! I get the point! And what if you're wrong?
- Dr. Peter Venkman: If we're wrong, then nothing happens. We go to jail. Peacefully. Quietly. We'll enjoy it. But if we're right, and we can stop this thing. Lenny...[the Mayor looks at him incredulously] you will have saved the lives of millions of registered voters.
- [Preparing to confront Gozer]
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Well, whatever it is, it's gotta get by us!
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Right!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Go get her, Ray!
- [Ray glares at him]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: Gozer the Gozerian? Good evening. As a duly-designated representative of the City, County and State of New York, I order you to cease any and all supernatural activity and return forthwith to your place of origin or to the next convenient parallel dimension.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: That oughtta do it. Thanks very much, Ray.
- Gozer: Are you a god?
- [Ray looks at the others, who all nod.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: [hesitant] Uh...no.
- Gozer: Then... di-i-i-i-e!
- [Gozer begins shocking the Ghostbusters with lighting.]
- Winston Zeddmore: Ray, when someone asks you if you're a god, you say "Yes!"
- Gozer: The choice is made!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Whoa! Ho! Ho! Whoa-oa!
- Gozer: The Traveller has come!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: Nobody chose anything! [turns to Egon] Did you choose anything?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: No.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [to Winston] Did you?
- Winston Zeddemore: My mind is totally blank.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: I didn't choose anything.
- All three: [turn to look at Ray] Ray?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I couldn't help it. It just popped in there.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What? What "just popped in there?"
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I--I--I tried to think...
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Look!
- [They all look over one side of the roof.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: No! It can't be!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What is it?
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: It can't be!
- Dr. Peter Venkman: What did you do, Ray?!
- Winston Zeddemore: Oh, shit!
- [They all see a giant cubic white head topped with a sailor hat. Peter looks at Ray.]
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [while seeing Stay-Puft walk towards the building and the Ghostbusters] Well, that's something you don't see every day.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: I tried to think of the most harmless thing. Something that I loved from my childhood. Something that would never ever possibly destroy us. Mr. Stay-Puft.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [sarcastic] Nice thinking, Ray.
- Dr. Raymond Stantz: We used to roast Stay-Puft Marshmallows by the fire at Camp Waconda.
- Dr. Peter Venkman: [looks at Egon] Ray has gone bye-bye, Egon. What have you got left?
- Dr. Egon Spengler: Sorry, Venkman. I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.
About Ghostbusters
- Rarely has a movie this expensive provided so many quotable lines.
- Roger Ebert
Taglines
- They're Here To Save The World.
- Coming To Save The World This Summer.
- We're Ready To Believe You.
- Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters!
- The supernatural spectacular
- They ain't afraid of no ghost.
- The world's most successful comedy
Cast
- Bill Murray - Dr. Peter Venkman
- Dan Aykroyd - Dr. Raymond Stantz
- Harold Ramis - Dr. Egon Spengler
- Sigourney Weaver - Dana Barrett
- Rick Moranis - Louis Tully
- Annie Potts - Janine Melnitz
- William Atherton - Walter Peck
- Ernie Hudson - Winston Zeddmore
- David Margulies - Mayor