“I’ll be seeing you”, says Dr. Peter Venkman, played by Bill Murray, to a concerned environmentalist, in the 1984 original Ghostbusters. Venkman is being tongue-in-cheek.

But it’s really: we’ll be seeing you Dr. Venkman.

The concerned environmentalist only saw the toxic residue that comes from storing, wait for it, ghosts.

But who are you going to call when New York has been inundated with supernatural appearances. You got to call those who are keeping people safe from supernatural terrorism, by storing and incinerating the ghosts. Yes, that’s you Dr. Venkman.

The causes are incoherent and confusable, a concoction of the Old Testament, the book of Revelations, and end of the world mayhem, so we can take the causes of this preternatural activity with a grain of salt.

The funny moment is when Venkman and fellow Ghost Busters Ray and Egon encounter a food munching, garbage hustling green blob that’s infiltrating hotels. The rest of the film is amusing.

When it gets serious, Ghostbusters is kind of magical in a mysterious way, in a dazzling scene where the ghosts come out to play.

The Ghost Busters

One of the undeniable attractions of Ghostbusters is the amusing threesome of Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, as three of the four Ghost Busters. Supporting them was Ernie Hudson as Winston, who just wants a steady pay check, as the Ghost Busters need more help in this supernatural New York ‘minute’. Annie Potts plays their receptionist, once bored, now fending off numerous calls for the Ghost Busters help. Her first caller was played by a post-Alien Sigourney Weaver as Dana, who is personally targeted by entity Gozer. The playful Ghostbusters was the unsurpassed hit of 1984, followed by the semi-serious, semi-comedic action blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Ghostbusters has attitude and it was a movie that made you think your contribution in the world is worthwhile.