Here's a bit of fun to kick off your Halloween festivities. Some middle schoolers recreated the original 1984 Ghostbusters trailer shot by shot. The results are anything but scary.
This trailer is so spot on, with every shot nearly identical to the original. The Ghostbusters crew zaps some ghosts, the Ecto-1 vehicle careens around the corner and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man walks among the New York City skyline. This is all done in a low-tech way, of course, but remember, they're only in middle school.
The accuracy of the trailer is certainly impressive, but what's really amazing about it is the fact that it subverts the gender roles in the film. That means the members of the Ghostbusters gang are all played by girls, and guys take on the female roles, such as Sigourney Weaver's character Dana Barrett. However, they still lip-sync to the soundtrack from the original trailer, with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis as the Ghostbusters, but it's still awesome.
This trailer was created by the Real to Reel Filmschool, a program of the arts non-profit based in Lynn, Mass. The program encourages young people to get into storytelling through film.
Real to Reel Filmschool posted this trailer on Vimeo three months ago, so maybe it predicted that there would be an upcoming female-led Ghostbusters reboot, which was officially announced by Paul Feig earlier this month. Before that official announcement, Murray famously offered up who he would like to see cast in the film, which included his St. Vincent co-star Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Linda Cardellini and Emma Stone.
Those lovely ladies would definitely be great in a Ghostbusters reboot, but maybe Feig should give these pre-teens a call instead.
[H/T The Hollywood Reporter]
Image: Real to Reel / Vimeo
