A blend of comedy, horror and special effects that go together very well

Rating: 10/10 (23 June 2003)

Ghostbusters came out in the summer of 1984 just before I was born and would later be a fan of the film along with its products as I got older with age.
The film's premise involves three scientist at a local college in New York where they get kicked out due to lack of funding and poor judgment. The leader of the trio is Dr. Peter Venkman (cool performance by Bill Murray) who not only experiments with people as part of his project, but if it's a seducing woman then Peter would do his best to get the girl. His life is basically sex, money and rock and roll while his two associates Dr. Raymond Stantz (Dan Aykroyd delivering major punchlines) a free-spirited scientist that loves his work around the paranormal and Dr. Egon Spangler (Harold Ramis) a no non-sense scientist take their work serious and need to do something once they get kicked out of school. Peter decides that with their knowledge they could open up a business of getting rid of the paranormal after encountering a ghost in the library.
Somehow things don't go well until the three members (who are known as Ghostbusters) meet a woman by the name of Dana Barrett (Sigorney Weaver of "Alien" fame) who believes that her apartment is haunted after getting notice from a neighbor that her TV was turned on loud and didn't even know about it along with seeing a creature inside her refrigerator. Peter has taken interest in Dana Barrett while seeing that nothing is wrong in her apartment just before getting called into action as the Ghostbusters take their first job before being famous. With so much ghosts in the area of New York they hire Winston Zeddmore (Ernie Hudson) before more things come in their way from a pesky environmental agent (William Atherton) who wants to shut down the good guys while Dana and her neighbor Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) get attacked by the spirits in the apartment where later all havoc breaks loose and it's up to the Ghostbusters to save the day.
"Ghostbusters" has three things that made the film successful: comedy, a spooky element and a special effects movie where they all work without letting the audience down. Bill Murray is classic where most of his lines will be forever be quoted by fans while at the same time blends comedy in the first act of the film while being serious in the second act when things get out of hand. Aykroyd and Ramis, who wrote the script, make sure they can write a comedy without losing the audience and be subtle at the same time with certain scenes. The spooky parts involving the monsters will more or less likely scare kids away while the special effects will have you begging for more.