Monster of the Day #1122

Updated on March 23, 2015 By Ken Begg 18 Comments

I’ve never been a fan of this film, which puts me in a small minority, but the monsters are admittedly pretty good.

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  • Flangepart

    The look on Venkman’s face when Egon asks him to collect slime…heh heh heh…

  • BeckoningChasm

    One of the aspects of this film that bugs me is the music–it’s way too “comedy ahoy!” Odd coming from Elmer Bernstein, who knew that in Animal House the music had to be absolutely straight.

  • This is exactly why I never get my library books returned on time.

  • bgbear_rnh

    Elmer was getting old, can’t expect “Robot Monster” at this point of his career ;-)

    Funny, your comment made me think about what this film would have been like if it had been a straight horror film.

  • Eric Hinkle

    “Egon! Here’s your mucus.”

  • Flangepart

    Hummm…interesting. Hadn’t thought about that.
    Heh…imagine the Star Trek films with the Star Wars music. How would that work?

  • bgbear_rnh

    The Federation is the Empire!

    ;)

  • Rock Baker

    If it’s what I think it is (GHOSTBUSTERS?) then I have to admit that I never really got it either.

  • zombiewhacker

    The Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis subplots simply did not work. Cut their scenes out completely (and patch the resulting plotholes) and you’d have an infinitely more watchable movie. (Now if I could only track down a copy of the 1945 Olsen/Johnson flick Ghost Catchers…)

  • bgbear_rnh

    I suppose opera fans didn’t get “Night at the Opera” ;-)

  • bgbear_rnh

    Bill Murray was paid by the funny line so, they thought they could save some cash padding with Rick Moranis.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Let’s see…Egon would have come across as creepy and inhuman, Stanz as obsessive and distant, Ernie Hudson would have had no real impact (just like the film as it is), and Venkman would have been the comedy relief…with Tully the Odious Comedy Relief. (Though I actually think Moranis is funnier than Murray here.)

  • BeckoningChasm

    Eh, don’t get me started on Star Trek scores…while I think ST:TMP and Wrath of Khan have magnificent scores, the music for the fourth one is simply god-awful–it almost makes the movie unwatchable.

  • bgbear_rnh

    In a “real” horror film poor Ernie would be the first to get killed.

  • I’m just the right age that this particular monster scared the hell out of me, no matter how funny the rest of the movie was. This and the undead cabby both gave me fits.

  • Eric Hinkle

    Undead, but hey, at least that cabbie understood English.

  • That would be an advantage over the last (only) New York cabbie I rode with.

  • Flangepart

    Ghostbusters as a Marx brothers film…yeah, baby!