Behind the Scenes
Director
Ivan Reitman Reitman was a king of comedies from the late '70s to the early '90s. He's the guy who directed like half the movies that parents the world over still have on VHS in the back of the clo...
Screenwriter
Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ivan Reitman Ghost DadsIt all started with SNL veteran Dan Aykroyd's secret (or not so secret) obsession with ghosts. Aykroyd came by his spectral fixation honestly....
Production Studio
Reitman is the ManAs a producer and director, Ivan Reitman put a big Stay Puft Marshmallow Man-sized footprint on the movie. We mention this in our Screenwriters section too, but it's worth repeati...
Production Design
Live From New YorkAs we say in our Setting section, Ghostbusters is a valentine to New York City and was filmed almost entirely on sight in the Big Apple. The filmmakers didn't rebuild the Public L...
Music (Score)
The Legend of ElmerReitman called in the big guns to score Ghostbusters when he enlisted the legendary Elmer Bernstein (1922-2004). From the 50's, the Academy Award and Golden Globe winning compo...
Fandoms
People flipped for Ghostbusters when it came out. It was popular with kids, teenagers, parents, grandparents... well, some grandparents. Basically, the fandom consisted of almost everyone in Americ...