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The Ghostbusters franchise spans multiple films, animated series, novelizations, comic books, and video games.Beginning with the 1984 live-action film Ghostbusters, directed by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, the premise and storyline have inspired sequels, spinoffs, and reboots.
Ghost hunting also gave rise to multiple guidebooks to haunted locations, and ghost hunting “how-to” manuals. The 1990s saw a return to classic “gothic” ghosts, whose dangers were more psychological than physical. Examples of films from this period include 1999's The Sixth Sense and 2001's The Others.
Numerous Casper cartoons were released on home video by Universal Studios (via MCA Inc.). In 2011, Shout!Factory released a DVD set titled Casper the Friendly Ghost: The Complete Collection - 1945-1963 which contains The Friendly Ghost, There's Good Boos To-Night, A Haunting We Will Go, all 55 theatrical cartoons, and all 26 episodes of The New Casper Cartoon Show.
The movie's catchphrase, "Who you gonna call?", has been used in other media, like the 1990s Casper cartoon series. [131] In the 1995 film version of Casper , Dan Aykroyd appears in character as Ray Stantz having been hired to remove the Whipstaff Manor of ghosts but having been foiled by the Ghostly Trio , Stantz sheepishly tells the new ...
The character was featured in 55 theatrical cartoons titled The Friendly Ghost from 1945 to 1959. [5] The character has been featured in comic books published by Harvey Comics since 1952, [6] and Harvey purchased the character outright in 1959. Casper became one of Harvey's most popular characters, headlining several comic book titles.
Ghost Buggy Jr., a.k.a. G.B. is the Ghostbusters' Southern accent-talking car that can assume many forms of transportation (including a train complete with graffiti on the sides), along with the ability to travel through time. Ghost Buggy Jr. is often found sleeping in Ghost Command's garage and gets annoyed when the Ghostbusters land on him.
Animated television series about ghosts, the souls or spirits of dead persons or non-human animals that are believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely, from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visible wispy shapes to realistic, lifelike forms.
Yen Sid appears in Disney Magical World as the creator of Castleton who tasks the player with defeating an army of ghosts. Yen Sid appears in the Descendants prequel novel The Isle of the Lost, where he works at the Dragon Hall school on the Isle and helps its students adapt to life without magical recourse.