After losing their academic posts at a prestigious university, a team of parapsychologists goes into business as proton-pack-toting "ghostbusters" who exterminate ghouls, hobgoblins and supernatural pests of all stripes. An ad campaign pays off when a knockout cellist hires the squad to purge her swanky digs of demons that appear to be living in her refrigerator.
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Venkman tricks two students during a test at the start. He lets a young woman believe she is correctly guessing cards when she is wrong, while he electrocutes a male student even when he does get the answer right.
Venkman is quite pushy towards Dana (and his lecherous behaviour towards the female student at the start) but this is played as charming and he doesn't force himself on her. Later when she is possessed, she forces herself on him and he extricates himself, showing that he would not take advantage of a woman. Later Dana and Louis kiss and presumably have sex while possessed, which is therefore without their consent.
No but there is an earthquake and the main characters all fall into a hole as the road breaks up and for a few moments the worst is assumed before they manage to climb back out.
Dana is grabbed and held down by demonic arms that rip through her chair and dragged screaming into the kitchen towards a demon. It is a distressing scene.
No copaganda but there are politics, it’s often considered the most libertarian (as in the U.S. Libertarian Party) Hollywood film. A private company are the heroes and big government, in the form of a pro-environment politician, is the villain.
A scientist performs an experience with two volunteered hooked up to electrodes. He lightly shocks the male participant several times for incorrect answers.
No needles/syringes are seen onscreen, but Venkman does tell his friends that he sedated the possessed Dana with Thorazine. He uses the wrong measurement terminology (which can be alarming if you know what that much would actually DO), but that's because he's a psychologist and not a psychiatrist.
Unconfirmed within the films but Dan Akroyd is autistic and based his acting in the role on himself, to an extent. Egon Spengler is also implicitly autistic/autistic-coded.
They use whatever pronoun best suits Gozer moment to moment as it is stated "It's whatever it wants to be" suggesting Gozer is gender fluid. Thus they adjust how they refer to Gozer depending on the current form
No but Winston was written with a much bigger, more sophisticated role than what’s seen in the final cut. It can be assumed that the studio demanded he be changed for racist reasons.
a middle aged man lightly flirts with a young collage student in the first scene, she is not seen or mentioned for the rest of the movie. This is the only instance of an age gap
Not in the final film. There's a deleted scene where Aykroyd and Murray play bums in Central Park, but it was cut because the director thought it would confuse people.