[#Horror #reTweet] GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II (Mastered in 4K) Blu-ray Reviews

GHOSTBUSTERS and GHOSTBUSTERS II (Mastered in 4K) Blu-ray Reviews
By Andre Dellamorte

Ghostbusters was a cultural phenomenon, and hasn’t left pop culture since it was released in 1984.  Then again, it would be hard to forget considering co-writer Dan Aykroyd has been promising a third entry in the franchise since the nineties.  To celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the first film (and the twenty-fifth of the sequel Ghostbusters II) Sony has packaged both together with new extras and the best transfers yet of the films.  The first film remains a classic, while the sequel is not without pleasures.  Both star Bill Murray, Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson, Rick Moranis, and Annie Potts, and both were directed by Ivan Reitman.  My review of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II on Blu-ray follows after the jump. 

Doctors Peter Venkman (Murray), Raymond Stanz (Aykroyd) and Egon Spengler (Ramis) work at Columbia University together when they’re asked to investigate paranormal activity at a library.  There they encounter a free-roaming, vaporous, full torso apparition, and come to realize that they can catch and imprison said ghosts with certain tools.  They then return to the university to see that they’ve been fired (mostly, it seems, because of Venkman’s looser research approach), but this leads Venkman to suggest that they should go into business busting ghosts.

They get their first client in Dana Barrett (Weaver), whose refrigerator was possessed by demon dogs that said the word “Zuul.” Venkman is attracted to Barrett, who finds his approach unserious, but he does take the job seriously, maybe.  But New York is in the …

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