(courtesy IMP Awards)
SNAPSHOT
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, a sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), is directed by English filmmaker Gil Kenan, director of the films Monster House, City of Ember, Poltergeist, and A Boy Called Christmas previously. The screenplay is written by Jason Reitman & Gil Kenan. Based on the 1984 film Ghostbusters, an Ivan Reitman film written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis; and also a sequel to Afterlife. Produced by Jason Reitman and Jason Blumenfeld. (courtesy First Showing)
It may be surprising to learn that this movie-obsessed reviewer only saw the original Ghostbusters from 1984 in the quite late viewing year of 2016.
That very late to the party cinematic moment came courtesy of the fact that at stage, and for a good decade or so later, I was still going to church and Christianity does not look kindly on anything supernatural (well, the non-God kind anyway but that’s a whole other story).
So I avoid Ghostbusters, like the good deluded Christina boy I then was, and so while I knew the theme song and the catchphrase, I hadn’t ever seen the movie.
That all changed eight years ago, and while I didn’t LOVE the film, I liked it enough to check out the reimagined take on the franchise, Afterlife, which I really liked and thus get excited when it was announced the revived franchise was getting another movie this very year. (Pssst! Btw I also loved, LOVED 2016’s all-female take on the idea of ghost-busting badasses with Ghostbusters one of my favourite movies of that year.)
And honestly this new movie looks all kinds of cool and batsh*t crazy and may well make the first quarter of the year one to very much spookily remember.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire opens in U.S. on 22 March and Australia on 28 March.