Ghostbusters Movies
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This section of the GBFans.com wiki collects the theatrical Ghostbusters films and the pages tied to each one, including their cast and crew listings. The series runs across two separate continuities. The original continuity began with Ghostbusters (1984) and continued with Ghostbusters II (1989), then resumed decades later with Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024). The 2016 film, also marketed as Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, is a stand-alone reboot with its own characters and does not continue the earlier story.1
Ivan Reitman directed the first two films, both released by Columbia Pictures.2 The later original-continuity entries passed to a new creative team, with Jason Reitman directing Afterlife and Gil Kenan directing Frozen Empire.
Browse the entries below for individual films and the people who made them.
Ghostbusters (1984)
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson star as a quartet of Manhattan-based "paranormal investigators". When their university grants run out, the former three go into business as the Ghostbusters, later hiring Hudson on. Armed with electronic paraphernalia, the team is spectacularly successful, ridding The Big Apple of dozens of ghoulies, ghosties and long-legged beasties. Tight-lipped bureaucrat William Atherton regards the Ghostbusters as a bunch of charlatans, but is forced to eat his words when New York is besieged by an army of unfriendly spirits, conjured up by a long-dead Babylonian demon and "channelled" through beautiful cellist Sigourney Weaver and her nerd-ish neighbor Rick Moranis. The climax is a glorious send-up of every Godzilla movie ever made and we daresay it cost more than a year's worth of Japanese monster flicks combined. Who'd ever dream that the chubby, cheery Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man would turn out to be the most malevolent threat ever faced by New York City?
View the Ghostbusters (1984) section for more information.