GHOST HUNTER MOVIES BESIDE GHOSTBUSTER

Ghostbuster movie was phenomenal because when another horror movie describes how ghosts or monsters scare us in their many ways it showed us that human can be terrifying them too with our science, knowledge, and hi-tech tools.

I’m one of Ghostbuster’s film whose crazy for the act of the couples, Peter Venkman, Ray Stanz, Egon Spengler, and Winston Zeddemore and as I remember the latest movie of Ghostbuster was Ghostbuster 2 that runs on 1989 which cast by Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Dan Akroyd, and Ernie Hudson, where Harold Ramis and Dan Akroyd were the scriptwriter for those two.  

Melissa McCarthy

After 30 years without any news, Ghostbuster finally released again but this time the cast replaced by the girls. A set of smart and brave woman who was the interest of Hollywood movie industry to showed girl’s power and feminist hegemony at present days, and they are Melissa McCarthy as Abby Yates, Kristen Wiig as Erin Gilbert,Kate McKinnon as Jillian Holtzmann, and Leslie Jones as Patty Tolan

Leslie Jones

Kate McKinnon

Kristen Wiig

The hunting for the ghost was such a cool theme indeed, not to mention the crazy thing those women does till the end of the story but for your information Ghostbuster is not the only film that had ghost hunting theme, at least 8 films I had in mind and they are :

1. Thirteen Ghosts (2001)

It was the story of eccentric conglomerates named Cyrus who collecting 13 ghosts in a giant machine called Ocularis Infernum (Eye of Hell) to generate its engine, but he only manage to capture 12 ghosts. In his effort to catch the last one Cyrus was killed by 11 ghosts who he had collected before.

2. The Exorcist (1973)

The film is one of the oldest films that started the era of hunting the ghosts or spirits topic. Two protagonist, Father Karras and Father Merrin, tried to help a 12-year-old girl, Reagan MacNeill, who possessed by the devil by performing devil ritual exorcism which forbid by church. Though they succeed to cast the devil away from the little girl but both ends up dead horribly.

3. Poltergeist (1982)

Bowen's family moved into a house that haunted by ghosts who terrorize the emergence of a number of the family. Only then Eric and Amy know that their house stood in a mass burial ground of the Indians, but it was too late until the ghost kidnaps their youngest child, Madison. Bowen Family brings paranormal to escaped Madison from the spirit world by connecting the unseen world with the real world. 

Check out my review of Poltergeist 2015

4. The Conjuring (2013) 

It was the experience of Ed and Lorraine Warren, known as the ghost repellent in 70-80s eras where Conjuring story inspired the famous horror movie titles Amityville Horror. 

Check out review of Conjuring1

5. Constantine (2005)

The near death experience experienced made John Constantine lived in parallel worlds. His ability to know the ins and outs of the spirit world makes him ultimately help people plagued by ghosts. Uncommon ways to enter spirit world was practiced by Constantine and one of them which made me astonished was when he’s drowning himself in the bathtub to get into the spirit realm. And his trick to put ghost move from the girl to the mirror…it was something beyond imagination…

6. Deliver Us From Evil (2014)

Taking from real life event of veteran police officer at NYPD (New York Police Department) named Ralph Sarchie who switched his professions to become a pastor who specialize in exorcism. 

Check also my review for Deliver Us From Evil 

7. The Sixth Sense

Had a sixth sense ability to see the other world is incomplete if you do not have the ability to catch a ghost. 'Catch' in this case is a term of Malcolm Crowe, a psychiatrist who tries to help Cole Sear who’s always plagued by ghostly apparitions. Through the science of parapsychology and mental Dr. Crowe manages to make Cole built some relationship with the ghost that haunt the kid and assist Cole to help them so they no longer bother him.

8. The Possession (2012)

It was the story of an old box of Israel which is used to lock the existence of ghosts. When the box was held by people who do not know about the spirits inside, especially a child, they slowly mastered by it and it try so hard to take the soul of a child. Releasing the spirit only could be done by performing a ritual ceremony in Jewish custom. 

Check Out my review of Possession