I have just mailed out a holiday gift to all eligible Spook Central VIPs, which is everyone who has been a VIP from this past January (or earlier) through December. If that includes you, and you want to be surprised when you receive the package, DON'T READ ANY FURTHER!!! Here's an animated gif of the Bug Eye Ghost from Ghostbusters: Afterlife to act as a buffer between you and the photos below of the holiday gifts.

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The recently-released book A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, which I reviewed a few days ago, includes four plot summaries of aborted Ghostbusters 3 scripts. Let's take a look at them...

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Lyons Press just released the book A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever, which I reviewed yesterday. In the back of the book, there are 67 pages dedicated to "Notes", which are footnotes/references to back up the information used throughout. A lot of these notes point to physical books and articles, but there are a lot that reference online resources. I thought it would be interesting to create a clickable linked copy of these Notes...

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Lyons Press just released A Convenient Parallel Dimension: How Ghostbusters Slimed Us Forever by James Greene, Jr. Let's take a closer look at it...

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When Ghostbusters II was released in June 1989, it was covered by the entertainment news program Entertainment Tonight. Some video of the television show's coverage of the movie has appeared online over the years, and I thought it was about time I added some of it to Spook Central. Read on to find out more...

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Insight Editions just released Ghostbusters: The Official Cookbook by Jenn Fujikawa and Erik Burnham. Let's take a closer look at it...

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Last week, the Sonic Drive-In restaurant chain added Ghostbusters spoons and a "straw buddy" to their Wacky Pack! kid's meal as the October and November 2022 promotion. Read on to find out more about it...

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I shop at a lot of thrift stores, yard sales, garage sales, white elephant sales, and flea markets to find dirt cheap physical media. I mainly buy DVDs and Blu-rays to add to my "I have way too many" collection (or to buy for friends), but on occasion I find a CD or book of interest. This past Summer, I found the Moans from the Mausoleum CD, originally released in 2007 by Digiview Productions. Let's take a look at it...

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The first assembly cut of Ghostbusters: Afterlife had a run time of 2 hours and 56 minutes, according to editor Dana Glauberman. As released, the movie ran for 2 hours and 4 minutes, with end credits. That means that there is almost an hour of footage that was removed. While the First Cut of the film has never been released, as it has for the original film, we do know what some of this deleted footage is. Let's take a look, with the obligatory SPOILER ALERT just in case you still have not seen the film already (and shame on you if you haven't by now), and an additional note that this article is VERY IMAGE INTENSIVE...

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Arsenio Hall was a stand-up comedian when he was hired in 1986 to provide the voice of Winston Zeddemore in The Real Ghostbusters animated series. Only a few years later, he would land the role of Semmi, best friend to Prince Akeem (Eddie Murphy), in Murphy's major motion picture Coming to America (1988). In a vintage EPK interview from around the time of the film's original theatrical release, Arsenio gives the real reason why he decided to take the role.

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