My first post of the new year is going to be one of my long-overdue Shot On Site articles. I have several locations identified and waiting to be written up, and hopefully I'll get to more than one a year.

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For most of the 2000s, Chris Buchner ran two sites: the NYGB Tourguide and the NYGB ComicGuide. The former focused on the New York City filming locations from both movies, while the latter focused on all of the Ghostbusters comic books ever published. When I say "all" I mean ALL! All of NOW's books, all of 88MPH's books, all of Marvel books released in the UK (and their derivatives), and even all of First's Filmation books! Not only did the site cover all of the issues, it even went very in-depth with each one, giving you the credits, story synopses, trivia, bloopers, character photos, and more!

Unfortunately, on October 31, 2008, AOL shutdown their AOL Hometown web hosting service, and thus both sites left the internet, along with other AOL members' websites. Luckily for the Ghostbusters Online Community, I had saved copies of both sites. With Chris' permission, I've incorporated a lot of the Tourguide information into Spook Central's Filming Locations pages, though you can find some archived copies of the original site on the Internet Archive.

A few days before the shutdown, on October 28, 2008, I downloaded all of the ComicGuide files. Due to the way AOL handled their web hosting service, the site was actually split across a few different user accounts. I attempted to merge all of the download files into one computer folder... and let's just say that the results weren't pretty. Because there were a lot of files with the same names, they couldn't all be put into one folder "as is". I had to rename almost all of the files, which also meant that I would have to go in and edit every html file so that all of the new file names are referenced in links and the such. I didn't have the time to do the task, so the files sat untouched on my hard drive for a few years.

Around this time last year I saw a post by Fritz Baugh on the GB Fans forum where he mentioned the ComicGuide site by name and lamented over the loss of the invaluable information it contained. Seeing that he had an interest in the site, I contacted him to see if he'd also be interested in fixing up all of the files I saved a few years prior, with the intention of making it all available to the public again. I figured that he'd turn me down, as the files required a lot of work, and it would be a very tedious task. Surprisingly, and much to his credit, he accepted my offer.

So, now, three years and two months after AOL took it down, I am proud to present... The Resurrected NYGB ComicGuide (last updated September 10, 2008, archived October 28, 2008). FYI: Don't expect to find any of IDW's books on the site, as they all came out after the site went into hibernation.

MAJOR THANKS to Chris Buchner for creating the site and giving me permission to host the old copy here on Spook Central, and especially to Fritz Baugh for doing the time-consuming and labor-intensive task of fixing up all of the files and making the site whole again.

Back in 1987, pop songstress Shanna O'Callahan captivated audiences worldwide with her hit song "Love Makes Me Live". The song was heard on the radio several times a day, the music video played in constant rotation on MTV (back when the channel lived up to its "Music Television" moniker), and it was even used in a very successful campaign for New Coke. One little known place where the song was heard was in the children's cartoon series, The Real Ghostbusters. Here's a clip from the episode "Banshee Bake A Cherry Pie?" featuring an animated Shanna performing the song alongside the Ghostbusters characters Peter Venkman and Slimer.


Many people have always wondered why there was never any songwriter's credit on any of the "Love Makes Me Live" record, cassette, and CD singles released around the world. What the world did not know, until now, is that the song was not a Shanna original, as Ms. O'Callahan claimed when Barbara Walters asked her about the matter in her now infamous October 1987 interview. There have always been rumors that Shanna stole the song, but they have always been just that: rumors. That is, until now.

In 2006, BCI/Eclipse released The Best of She-Ra Princess of Power, a 2-DVD set featuring five episodes of the She-Ra: Princess of Power animated series and the preceding 1985 theatrical film The Secret of the Sword, along with a whole bunch of bonus features. Amongst the bonus features on Disc 1 are several versions of the "I Have The Power" music video from The Secret of the Sword film. One alternate version of the music video is included as an Easter egg, and THAT is where the truth about Shanna O'Callahan is revealed. To access the egg, go to the Special Features menu, highlight "Alternate Recording" and press Left. At first, there doesn't appear to be anything special about this version of the music video, but when the song is over and the end credits start, that's when everyone's eyes and ears will opened...


Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Shanna O'Callahan STOLE "Love Makes Me Live" from She-Ra!!!!! We now have irrefutable proof of the theft. Shanna released her song in 1987, while the song was used in the She-Ra music video in 1985 - a full two years earlier! To hide her thievery, Shanna renamed the song. The phrase "love makes me live" does not appear anywhere in the lyrics I transcribed above. In fact, I would bet that the original song's title is "Love On The Streets", judging by how many times that phrase is used.

What's interesting about the song's use in the She-Ra music video is that it doesn't even fit in the music video that it's in, both thematically and length-wise. There's 35 seconds of blackness after the video ends so that the song can play out a little bit. It seems like an afterthought; like something added in so there would be some kind of music to play under the music video's end credits. Heck, the song doesn't even appear in any other version of the music video on the DVD.

The Real Ghostbusters was produced by DiC, while She-Ra was produced by Filmation. The only thing the two shows have in common is that the music for both was done by Shuki Levy and Haim Saban. So I would bet that this song is part of their stock library. I did a search for some pieces of the lyrics online, but I couldn't find anything. I thought maybe some obscure band that Levy was a part of might have recorded the song before its cartoon uses, and the lyrics and information would be online - but not a sausage. The She-Ra movie came out in 1985, but the song could be older than that. I sent e-mails earlier this year to the webmaster of Shuki Levy's website, in the hopes that he/she could ask Shuki about the song, but I never heard back.

So I contacted my resident He-Man/She-Ra expert (he literally wrote the book), James Eatock. James has also worked on numerous animated series DVD sets, such as The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection (he also appeared on screen in the bonus features), and many sets for BCI/Eclipse, including The Best of She-Ra Princess of Power. Yes, he actually worked on the set on which the song appears, and didn't even realize its significance. Hey, I guess even the good ones slip up now and there.

The first thing I noticed about both versions of the song is that each one is sung by a different person, and each person sings slightly different lyrics. My first step was to identify the singer of The Real Ghostbusters version, as that is the one that everyone is most familiar with. During his time working on The Real Ghostbusters DVD box set, James managed to get a hold of the cast call sheets from voice director Marsha Goodman. These sheets lists the names of all voice actors for each episode and the characters they voiced - both the guest stars and the regulars, who would often do extra bit parts here and there. These sheets are quite valuable since the series either never named the guest cast per episode or just grouped all voice actors together in the end credits for an entire season. Naturally, I asked him to check the sheet for "Banshee Bake A Cherry Pie?" to see if it mentions who did Shanna's speaking and singing voices. He told me that "Jodi Carlisle was the voice of Shanna according to the recording sessions", but that he couldn't find any note about the use of the song. As great as that information is about the episode, that's pretty much a dead end about that particular version of the song.

James was able to provide a little bit of information on the She-Ra version of the song, but not as much as I would have liked. He told me that the song is performed by Noam Kaniel, who "was Shuki Levy's main vocal performer. Many of those Levy composed eighties cartoon theme songs have his vocal tones blessing them to some degree." I did a little searching online for Noam's past work, to see if the song appeared anywhere in it, but couldn't find anything.

So we're pretty much at a dead end with the She-Ra song, too. We know the singer, but nothing else. Being that it does not appear to have been written specifically for She-Ra - as evident by how it doesn't fit at all in the music video - I think we can safely say that Shuki Levy wrote the song prior to She-Ra, or for a different project at the time, and just reused the song for both She-Ra and The Real Ghostbusters. We know that The Real Ghostbusters version is not the original recording, though I can only assume that the She-Ra version is. I would think that if Shuki had Noam quickly record a piece of the song to play under the music video credits, he wouldn't have recorded so much of it that it actually plays longer than those credits.

I'm going to try e-mailing Shuki's webmaster again, this time pointing him to this page, and hope that I get a reply this time. No guarantees, of course. If anyone has any information they care to share on the matter, feel free to chime in with a comment below.

By the way, while we're on the subject of The Real Ghostbusters music... I know a lot of people would love to have the Shuki Levy-composed score music released on some sort of "score album". If the music is a part of the Saban Music Group catalog, and not owned outright by Sony, and assuming all of the original recordings still exists, Bug Music would be the people you should bug (no pun intended) in any efforts to get a Real Ghostbusters score album released. In October 2010, Bug Music acquired the worldwide rights to Saban Music Group's publishing catalog. According to the press release, the extensive purchased catalog includes material from leading children's franchises such as the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Digimon, The Addams Family Reunion, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Generation, Princess Sissi and Walter Melon properties, and encompasses a slate of theme songs, cues and scores from more than 90 television series, 3,700 television episodes and 100 made-for-television films and specials. If the recorded music doesn't exist anymore, maybe the sheet music still exists, and it could all be re-recorded for the score album. That would be the best worse-case scenario.

[UPDATE]
BMG Rights Management purchased Bug Music in September/October 2011. Going to BugMusic.com now takes you to BMGChrysalis.com, with a message overlay that reads, "Dear Friends of bug music, We have moved to our new home under BMG Chrysalis." That means that BMG Chrysalis is now the company you should pester for a Real Ghostbusters score album release, assuming the music is still in the Saban music library they now own due to the Bug Music acquisition.

[UPDATE - 7/10/2012]
I posted a message (link req. login) on singer Noam Kaniel's Facebook wall (only visible if you friend him), and received the following replies from him which gives us some more information on the song.

[July 8, 2012] Yeah I wrote this song with Michael Piccirillo and Lisa Popeil. It was originally recorded as a demo for me as a singing artist, but since my obligations with Saban were so important I had no time to pursue a singing career again, so we placed it in this She-Ra music video. I'm singing on it with Erika Scheimer. Boy that's a long time ago!!!

[UPDATE - 9/30/2014]
Episode co-writer, Dennys McCoy posted several messages to the Ghostbusters Wiki Facebook page, which gives us a little more insight on the song, and his career - and how shrewd of a businessman Haim Saban is.

[September 25, 2014] Back in the time of GHOSTBUSTERS and DENNIS THE MENACE, Saban studios produced music for animated series. They were the exclusive suppliers for DIC, which produced both shows. I was Haim Saban's Creative Director at the time and they would happily mix-and-match music cues from different series. This is how Saban initially made his money in the U.S. -- by literally giving away the music to the studios, but retaining all the rights to the music. It wasn't unusual for Haim to make more money from the music than the studios made from their productions.

[September 25, 2014] I didn't get a credit on Dennis the Menace because I was working for SABAN and not DIC. We wrote for DIC, but I was an executive at Saban. Saban turned out music cues 24-7, and I mean that literally. They had 3 8-hour shifts with 3 producers who would record music cues and VARIATIONS on music cues. So whereas a cue may sound familiar but not exact -- it's one of the variations. This way Saban could sell the same music to several productions. There's a story about when Andy Heyward, who ran DIC, let Mattel have a cue from HE-MAN and the trouble that resulted from that. Mattel didn't own the theme, DIC didn't own the theme -- SABAN owned the theme. Way too long story for here -- but it was an amazing screw-up that lead to Saban becoming one of the wealthiest guys in Hollywood.

[September 26, 2014] This is really funny. First, I and my partner/wife, Pamela Hickey, wrote BANSHEE BAKE A CHERRY PIE. Second -- WE NAMED THE SONG! We wanted a title that just plain sounded stupid, so we called it "LOVE MAKES ME LIVE." By that time I had left Saban and Pam and I were working as full-time writers in animation. But we knew that Shuki and Noam had a ton of songs they'd written. By the way, all the music is listed as composed by Haim Saban and Shuki Levy because that is how they contracted all music. Love Makes Me Live could have been composed by any number of producers/writers who worked for Saban, including brilliant people like Steve Marsden or Glen Jordan. We had come up with a GHOSTBUSTERS idea for a banshee and wanted to make her a pop diva. Shuki and Noam were HUGE fans of the Eurovision song contest (and always entered a song every year) and if you're familiar with the Eurovision song contest you already know that with one exception (ABBA) the winners of that contest invariably go on to total obscurity. The songs always suck and they always sound like a cross between a Las Vegas lounge act and a music score from a Goddard movie. So we knew if we called the song LOVE MAKES ME LIVE, that Shuki and Noam would dig out all their old Eurovision entries and find something that fit the title. However, until you posted the story above, we had no idea that it had gone on to be a hit. We can now say that we have written (the title of) a hit song.

[September 26, 2014] I was the Creative director from '84-'87. Pam was at home with our daughter, Elizabeth Hickey-McCoy (who is also a writer... look for her name or her nom de plume Andrea Case). At that time I was supervising producer on KIDD VIDEO, the first animated series from Saban. It featured an animated (and live) rock group named Kidd Video... naturally so Haim could sell more music. During this time we did Kidd Video, a Japanese mash-up show called MACRON 1, five animated developments for Mattel, and a little show called BIO-MAN. Bio-Man is the show that eventually became (wait for it) POWER RANGERS!!! I quit when our writing started making us more money than working for Saban. By the way, I really liked Haim. He is really a good human being.

I've finally joined the 21st century and bought a PlayStation 3. My primary reason for the purchase wasn't the games, though I owned two before I even owned the console. I bought the PS3 primarily to replace a crappy Insignia Blu-ray player. (Insignia is Best Buy's brand, in case you don't know.) Every firmware update might fix one thing, or nothing perceivable at all, but break several other things. I won't go into details, but in short, DON'T BUY AN INSIGNIA BLU-RAY PLAYER FROM BEST BUY.

I knew that the Ghostbusters Blu-ray included a Ghostbusters PS3 menu theme, so that was the first disc I put in the system. That theme is now installed on my system and I have no plans to ever change it :-) If you've never seen what this theme looks like, I added some screen shots to the Ghostbusters Blu-ray page here on Spook Central. I also found out how to extract the wallpaper images from the PS3 theme file, so those 1920x1080 and 640x480 images are also available to download on that page. So if you've ever wanted to have that PS3 wallpaper on your computer, now you can have it.

The second disc I put into the console was Ghostbusters: The Video Game (GBVG), which was the first PS3 game I ever bought - six months before I bought the console. When you highlight the game on the PS3 menu it displays a nice group shot background image. I can't rip that image from the disc because my computer's Blu-ray drive can't read PS3 discs (only one model in the world reportedly can, and mine isn't it), but I did do an analog screen capture of it - which you'll find below, and also on the Ghostbusters: The Video Game page here on Spook Central.


The PS3 version of GBVG also includes 6 "exclusive" videos (as in "not on PC or [presumably] Xbox 360") that are already unlocked from the start. I added a list of them to the bottom of "Unlockables" tab here on Spook Central. One of these is the Ghostbusters' commercial seen on Dana's television in the film, only without the on-screen graphics and shown in it's complete form in full screen. This is an incredible bonus never seen elsewhere before, and it isn't even advertised on the back of the case! This is NOT on the Ghostbusters Blu-ray. Below is my 640x480 analog recording of this video. (I can only record video from my newly-purchased PS3 through the analog composite output captured at 640x480, so the quality isn't as great as if I did a direct digital rip from the disc, but I think it'll suffice. The only other copy known to exist online is missing the first second or two, so at least this one is complete.)

IT HAS BEGUN! No, not Mortal Kombat - though the awesome 1995 flick did come out on Blu-ray this year - but rather a project I've thought about for years has officially begun here on Spook Central.

Back in 2008 when I was working on The Real Ghostbusters: Complete Collection DVD box set, I scanned in a bunch of my The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer! scripts and assembled the scans into PDF "eBook" files for inclusion in the set and on this site. That gave me the idea of doing the same thing, not only with the other scripts that I own for both movies and Extreme Ghostbusters, but also with the other Ghostbusters books in my collection. Not only would this allow me to share the vintage materials that I own, most of which would cost big bucks to buy the few remaining copies that are still out there, but it would allow me to digitally preserve materials that are no longer being published so that future generations could enjoy them.

As with most everything that I start, the project laid dormant for many years, with The Real Ghostbusters and Slimer! scripts being the only progress made on it. That all changed a month ago when Matthew Jordan (from the Ghostbusters Wiki) used some of the Trioxin he has stored in steel drums in his basement to bring the project back to life. He e-mailed me to say that he was working on making a complete digital copy out of his physical copy of the "Ghostbusters" novel by Richard Mueller, and he was wondering if I'd like to host it on Spook Central. Since I also own that book, and thus it's one of the books I planned on including in my project, I jumped at the chance.

(SIDE NOTE: Matthew's physical copy of the book is in very poor condition. He did a tremendous amount of work to make it look as good as the PDF you'll find on the Ghostbusters Books page. To illustrate just how much work he did, look at this 1600x1400 image he put together that shows the clean-up process. As if that wasn't enough, he also gathered up all of the images strewn throughout the book and collected them into a photo gallery at the end of the PDF. He didn't have to, but he did it anyway because he's cool like that.)

I used this as a chance to lay the groundwork for the entire project by transforming the old "In Print" pages into new "Books" pages for Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, and The Real Ghostbusters. There are practically no full books available on any of those pages right now, other than the Richard Mueller novel (on the Ghostbusters page, of course), seeing as how I haven't done any scanning myself. I wanted to use the addition of the novel PDF to the site as the opportunity to get things started for future use. Eventually I'll fix up the Comic Books page like this as well, as I would also like to include complete PDF eBooks of every out-of-print Ghostbusters comic.

I downloaded a bunch of page scans for the majority of the Now comic books (I think I have scans of all of Vol. 1), as well as 88MPH's Legion, Now's Ghostbusters II, and one Slimer! and Marvel RGB issue as well. That'll save me the trouble of scanning in my copies, though I still have to fix some of them up, and I want to compare the scans with my physical comics to make sure that no pages are missing. Don't expect for any of that to show up this week. I certainly hope that I'm not biting off more than I can chew with the scope of this project, especially in terms of the amount of file space needed for it all. Maybe I could share the load, by letting another site host the comic PDFs... but that's not something I'll worry about right now.

I would love to get help from those of you who own Ghostbusters books/magazines and can scan them in well (the less image clean-up I have to do, the faster the content will get on the site). Here's what I already have page scans of: GB1 Starburst magazine, Now GB2 issues 1-3, Now RGB vol 1 issues 1-27, Now RGB vol 2 Annual 1992, Now Slimer issue 1, Marvel RGB UK Annual 1990, and 88MPH Legion issues 1-4.

Disclaimer: No copyright infringement is intended with this project. The presentation of full books and articles is done solely to digitally preserve materials that are no longer being published. For that reason, no IDW books will appear on the site until they no longer have the license and the books are out-of-print. The same is true of Cereal:Geek articles, unless James Eatock gives me permission. Nobody should be forced to pay hundreds of dollars to second-hand stores, such as eBay and Amazon Marketplace, just to be able to read one of these books. A lot of these books have been out-of-print for 20+ years. The original copyright owners aren't making one cent in profit off of the copies being sold by sellers at the aforementioned places. Heck, a lot of the copyright owners have long gone out of business. These books will be lost and gone forever if we all don't step forward to properly preserve them.

Also, thanks to Patrick O'Riley and Matthew Jordan, the 8/5/1983 draft of the Ghostbusters script is now available on the Ghostbusters Scripts page. Patrick scanned it in and submitted it, Matthew did clean-up of the images.

Josh Blake (a Kenner memorabilia collector) has provided to Ghostbusters Wiki a bunch of scans from the "Kenner 1991: Hot, Hot, Hot" retailer catalog. This book contains promotional images and descriptions of several items in The Real Ghostbusters toy line that were never released since the toy line was phased out around this time due to the waning popularity of the animated series, which ended during the 1991-1992 television season.

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It's hard to believe, but this month marks 15 years since I uploaded the first version of Spook Central to my tiny Geocities account. It's quite a milestone for a website to still remain online after 15 years. Interestingly, Geocities can't make that claim. I never really thought that the site would still be around 15 years later, much less that I'd still have the desire to work on it, but here we are. To see where we've been, check out my Spook Central history page here on Spook Central and over at Ghostbusters Fans.

To help celebrate the momentous occasion, I had a special little souvenir made: a limited edition Spook Central 15th Anniversary embroidered sew-on patch. The design of the patch is meant to invoke the look of the original "Spook Central" title logo from March 1997. (The site premiered in August 1996, but didn't get a logo image until 1997, thanks to Bill Emkow.) They are roughly 3x2 inches in size, and are limited to a quantity of 100 patches. Once they are all gone, that's it. No more will be made.

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Next year I might have an embroidered sew-on patch made of the Ghostbusters: The Video Game logo, so we can finally have a "patch" for the game :-)

[UPDATE]
Some fans have already sent in photos showing their Spook Central patches creatively filmed. I've created a Spook Central Patch Mania gallery to showcase all of these fan photos.

Matt Prov and Brendan Mertens over at the Ghostheads podcast released their 17th episode last week, and they mentioned Spook Central's and Ghostbusters News' mention in Hustler's This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX Rave Reviews press release. Coincidentally... or not... Jason Fitzsimmons from Ghostbusters News was on the show, along with Fernando Hernandez from the Long Island Ghostbusters, Sam Swope and Brandon Carnahan from the Steel City Ghostbusters and Brock Parker from the Alabama Ghostbusters.

From 30:53 to 31:58 the discussion is made of the joint mention by Hustler, with Jason being asked to explain how he found out about it. Jason tells how he was trolling the internet for Marsupilami porn while downing a case of long-expired Ecto-Cooler, which lead to him stumbling upon the article on AVN's site. Just kidding...just kidding!!! It's a much more boring story than that. But I couldn't have filled up this paragraph if I just said he found it on Google while looking for Ghostbusters news :-)

Anyway, you can listen to the Spook Central/Ghostbusters News excerpt by clicking on the little play arrow/button above, though if you have a desire to hear about lots of other interesting topics, head over to the Cross The Streams site to listen to the entire 42-minute episode - if for no other reason than to listen to the amazing Macho Man Randy Savage tribute quote-a-thon from 37:58 to the end of the show. Thanks Brendan for the heads-up.

Extreme Ghostbusters may not have had much in the way of tie-in merchandise, but it did have some - with some of it being video games that actually came out years after the show ended its brief three-month run in the States. One area where a considerable effort was made in merchandising the show was in the toy and action figure line from Trendmasters.

We had both regular and DELUXE figures of Kylie, Eduardo, Roland, and Egon; Slimer and Samhain figures (you know, in spite of the Spirit of Halloween not actually appearing in any of the show's stories); the generic "Mouth Critter" and "House Ghost"; the Ecto-1 car for the 'busters to ride in; and child-sized Ghost Trap and Plasma Blaster (a quasi proton pack) toys for pretend play. The only thing we were missing - besides Janine and ghostly villains from the episodes themselves - was the fourth member of the team: the wheelchair-bound Garrett Miller.

At the time that the toys were released, some thought that maybe the lack of a Garrett figure was due to some sort of political-INcorrectness - even though the fact that there was a wheelchair-bound ghostbuster would demonstrate quite the opposite. There were others, like me, who thought that maybe the folks at Trendmasters couldn't figure out how to make a wheelchair-bound figure that would, for lack of better phrasing, work in conjunction with the other able-bodied figures.

As it turns out, Trendmasters did plan on making a Garrett figure, complete with specialized weapon-ized wheelchair. It even went so far as the prototype stage, but for some reason, it never made it to the store shelves. Maybe if the show would have stuck around longer, it would have. Thankfully, collector Jonathan Shyman managed to, somehow, get his hands on the Garrett prototype and has shared pictures of it and information with the Ghostbusters Wiki.

Trendmasters did a prototype of the Garrett Miller figure. Garrett's wheelchair here is completely modified to have a massive ray gun or missile launcher instead of what is seen on Extreme Ghostbusters, and would not fit in the Ecto-1 Cruiser. His hair is also a lighter shade then his actual animated look, which was often the case with any prototype Trendmasters made before the final colors were established. This unique piece is most likely a one of a kind prototype, which was used as a Toy Fair Paint Master Sample, since it's completely done up, like most Toy Fair Samples. [...] [It's] made entirely of RESIN. I'm not sure if it ever made it to the plastic stage of development, but the resin figures are always better sculpts and paint jobs, often in non-production colors.

Hustler just sent along this press release which gives a sampling of some of the rave reviews the movie has received. It even quotes my review and Ghostbusters News's review, which is really cool. Originally it mistakenly attributed my site as being at SpookCentral.com, which is a domain name I don't have (unfortunately) and never used. With Hustler's permission, I changed it to read SpookCentral.tk in the press release posted below.

This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX Parody Receives Rave Reviews!

(Canoga Park, CA) - Thursday, July 7th, 2011 - Just over a month has passed since the release of Hustler Video's second big 3D feature parody, This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX. Reveling in the light of rave reviews, Hustler Video has been overwhelmed by stellar reviews and cheers of accolades from the many review sites and critical eyes of their fans and the public at large.

"I have to admit that Axel Braun did a damn good job," said Ottimo Massimo of Fleshbot.com "For one, it's packing some of the best 3D imagery that I've seen in porn. Oh, and it also came with a free trading card! The special effects are both flashy and appropriate, the acting captures the spirit of the original film, and most importantly, the sex is solid."

Many Ghostbusters fan sites have also marveled at the quality of filmmaking, special effects, and especially the quality of acting coming from a group of trained adult performers.

"Let me just say that Evan Stone stole the show playing an over the top Dr. Peter Venkman," said the guys over at GhostbustersNews.com. "I have to gives kudos to Hustler on this one, as they did something that definitely wasn't easy."

"Evan Stone totally nails the character of Peter Venkman," agrees Paul, of SpookCentral.tk. "As you watch him weaselly hit on the female college student, you completely feel like you're watching the 'real' Peter Venkman."

One of the toughest critics in the adult industry, Don Houston, from XCritic.com, even handed the This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX parody the coveted award of being an "XCritic Pick!"

"The entertainment factor was off the scale with this one," said Houston, "Keeping in mind that even a few friends that don't like porn parodies found this one to be (and I quote) 'fucking great."

3D enthusiast and aficionado, Mark Kernes, thought that not only was the movie a stellar piece of quality filmmaking, but that the technical aspects of the 3D special effects were impressive and notable, giving the This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX parody a five star review!

"Beyond the terrific sex, though, we have to say a few words about the special effects, which are just fabulous," said Kernes. "Nearly all of the buildings are rendered in perfect 3D CGI...Likewise, the 3D camera work is flawless...All in all, it's a nearly perfect 3D XXX experience."

"The This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX parody is a hit!" said Drew Rosenfeld, Creative Director for Hustler Video. "We really showed both the mainstream and adult community what we're capable of. It's safe to say that you can expect to see a lot of high quality 3D product coming from Hustler Video."

The This Ain't Ghostbusters XXX parody is available now in a 3D DVD/Blu-ray combo pack.