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Ghostbusters in Concert

  • Film, Special screenings
Ghostbusters 1984
Columbia Pictures
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Time Out says

Get your dose of freaky ghosts with the MSO playing the soundtrack music live

Gatekeepers and keymasters, save the date. The original 1984 Ghostbusters is returning to scare up the big screen at Hamer Hall with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra performing Elmer Bernstein's orchestral score live, conducted by Benjamin Northey (expect Ray Parker Jr's hit themesong to be given a live twist as well). 

Directed by Ivan Reitman, from a script by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, Ghostbusters brings together the classic comedy team of Aykroyd, Ramis, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson, together with Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis. A smash hit that inspired a sequel and a remake, the movie balances scares with urbane, oddball humour in a unique and rare alchemy.

Time Out wrote in 2014: "Bill Murray’s sweetly sardonic performance is a treasure for the ages – that little plaza pirouette when he scores a date with Sigourney Weaver is a moment of transcendental bliss. The script is literally word-perfect, at once crude (‘this man has no dick’), weird (‘many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!’) and packed with timeless silly-smart one-liners (‘Listen... do you smell something?’)."

There'll be three performances at Hamer Hall over two days, and tickets go on sale Friday February 8. Be quick – you don't want to end up with slime on your face.

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