Exclusives
‘Ghostbusters’: Slimer to Make an Appearance?!
Update: Bloody Disgusting has exclusively confirmed with three separate sourced that Slimer will in fact be in the film. On the other hand, Paul Feig took to Twitter to debunk the Dan Castellaneta IMDB credit.
Made of pure ectoplasm, Slimer haunted the Sedgewick Hotel in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters, and is famous for being the first spook Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis ever caught.
While this puppet was a fun character who slimed Murray’s Dr. Peter Venkman in the original’s debut, Slimer didn’t become a household name until being featured in the 1986 animated spinoff, “The Real Ghostbusters.”
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Flash forward to 2015, where Paul Feig is currently in post-production on his Ghostbusters, which is being pegged as a reboot. While many remakes play the same universe card (see Friday the 13th, Poltergeist, Jurassic World, Evil Dead, etc.), the new Ghostbusters is clearly starting fresh; Feig has filmed cameos for many of the original Ghostbusters cast – Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and even Sigourney Weaver – in new roles.
This left a single question unanswered, one that I seriously can’t believe nobody asked: what about Slimer?
The IMDb cannot be trusted but, according to the site, “The Simpsons” voice actor Dan Castellaneta will be lending his talents to Slimer. Who might “Little Spud” sound like? Castellaneta is best known for voicing both Homer and Abe Simpson, as well as Barney. I think it’s safe to assume there’s truth here, considering the rash of cameos that also include Ozzy Osbourne.
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I’m personally juiced to see Slimer return to the franchise, but this news only leads to a series of new questions. Will this Slimer live in the same universe as the original films? Will Onionhead look the same/similar? Will Slimer talk?! The latter is the biggest head-scratcher of all. Will Castellaneta be mumbling weird, unintelligible dialect, or will he actually be communicating directly with the cast, which now includes Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones as the new ‘busters?
I keep going back and forth on if I’m excited for the film or not, so I’ve just decided to reserve my judgement for opening night…
We’ll be strapping on our Proton Packs and crossing the streams July 15, 2016.
Exclusives
Katharine Isabelle Battles Cosmic Horror in Exclusive ‘Junction Row’ Teaser Trailer [Fantasia 2026]
Among Fantasia 2026‘s massive final wave of programming this morning is Raven Banner’s Lovecraftian creature feature Junction Row, starring Canadian horror icon Katharine Isabelle, and we’re exclusively unveiling the teaser trailer.
Junction Row will celebrate its World Premiere at Fantasia on July 28.
Watch a housing compound fall under siege from Lovecraftian creatures more dangerous than drug dealers in the trailer below.
Junction Row follows “Juno, a recovering addict who leaves a fringe housing compound for a better life, leaving her beloved Ruby behind. When she learns that Ruby has gone missing, Juno returns, only to find Junction Row has become a hotbed of criminal activity, but she encounters much more than menacing drug dealers on her mission to find Ruby.”
Isabelle stars as Juno, with Natalie Brown (FX’s The Strain) as Ruby.
The creature feature marks the feature debut by director Ashlea Wessel, who has directed festival-favorite shorts like 2018’s “Tick” and 2020’s “Weirdo”.
Wessel co-writes Junction Row with Clown in a Cornfield author Adam Cesare and Matt Serafini.
Katharine Isabelle is coming off a brief appearance in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms, and more recently appeared in holiday horror It’s a Wonderful Knife. The horror icon is arguably best known for her turn as the eponymous werewolf in Ginger Snaps and for her roles in American Mary and Freddy vs Jason.
Fantasia teases that Junction Row tells “a story where the fear of the unknown isn’t confined to what lies above, but what waits beneath.”
Stay tuned for more from Fantasia as the festival gets underway later this month.
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