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This is where we put all the vapors and entities and slimers that we trap. Quite simple
really. Load a trap here, open, unlock the system. Insert the trap, release, close, lock
the system. Set your entry grid, neutralize your field and... the light is green,
the trap is clean!
After losing their jobs at Columbia University, despite having
obtained concrete evidence of paranormal activity and even seeing a ghost at the
New York
Public Library, a trio of misfit parapsychologists—Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler—decide to
establish their own paranormal exterminator service, "Ghostbusters." The business
gets off to a slow start, but just when they run out of money, the Ghostbusters
are contacted by the upscale Sedgewick Hotel to investigate a haunting where
they successfully (albeit chaotically) capture their first ghost. Business skyrockets for the
Ghostbusters, eventually becoming celebrities and leading to them hiring a
fourth member, Winston Zeddemore.
Throughout these events, the Ghostbusters investigate a case for a woman
named Dana Barrett, whose apartment at 55 Central Park West is haunted by a
demonic spirit called Zuul, a demigod worshiped in 6000 BC as a servant to Gozer
the Gozerian, a Sumerian shape-shifting destructive god. Venkman particularly takes the case in an attempt to woo her rather than out of
concern for the paranormal. As they look into the matter, Barrett is possessed by
Zuul, followed by her neighbour Louis Tully, who is possessed by a similar demon
called Vinz Clortho. Keeping "Keymaster" Vinz/Tully within their building, they
decide to keep him from the "Gatekeeper" Zuul/Barrett, seeing there would be
dire consequences if they met as both preach of the coming of Gozer. However,
the next day, their ghost containment grid is shut down by the EPA's Walter
Peck, unleashing hundreds of ghosts onto New York City with the possessed Louis
making his way toward Barrett during the chaos as Peck has the Ghostbusters
arrested.
Later, with the blueprints of
55 Central Park West that Ray obtained prior to the arrest, the Ghostbusters
learn that it was built by a mad doctor and cult leader named Ivo Shandor who
designed the building to act as a spiritual magnet so that it would summon Gozer
and bring about the end of the world. After managing to convince the mayor that
a catastrophe is imminent, the Ghostbusters track Barrett and Tully at Gozer's
shrine atop their high-rise apartment, but are unable to stop them as their
possessors manifest around them and summon Gozer, who appears as a woman.
Briefly subdued by the team, Gozer disappears, though her voice echoes that the
"destructor" will take the form of the team's choice, which Venkman explains
will be from their thoughts.
Despite Venkman's attempts to keep everyone from
creating the destructor, Stantz is unable and thinks of a being he hoped would
be "something that could never, ever possibly destroy us." Gozer arrives in
Stantz's chosen form of the giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man and begins
laying waste to the city. To defeat the manifestation of Gozer, the team decides
to merge the energy streams of their proton packs and aim at the dimensional portal
Gozer came through, at the risk of their own lives. They ultimately follow
through with this plan and destroy Stay Puft, who explodes into torrents of
melted marshmallow. The Ghostbusters survive, with Barrett and Tully broken out
of the charred remains of their possessors. As they exit the building, the
Ghostbusters are met with applause from a cheering crowd while Louis is escorted
for medical attention, Venkman and Barrett kiss while they drive off.
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