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For Halloween, a spooky scene from Ghostbusters 2.

Egon : [Looking at Pictures of Vigo that Peter took earlier] We were right, Ray. Multi-palaner kirilian emanations.
Ray : [getting another picture] Yeah, well here is your next month's cover of GQ, check out the aura on this sucker. Now there is definitely a living presence there.
Egon : We should get a deeper look.
Ray : Why not I run this wider shot through the spectral analyzer?
Egon : Good, I'll try turning up the Roentgens.
[Puts a picture into the spectrogram, now talks about dinner]
Ray : So, what do you think, Chinese?
Egon : Uh, how about Thai?
Ray : Nah, too spicy. Greek?
Egon : Uh, Mexican?
Ray : Pizza?
Egon : Thin or thick?
Ray : Chicago.
Egon : [Takes out a picture of Vigo] What the hell is that?
[picks up his giant maginfying glass]
Ray : I know what it is.
[Unbeknownst to Ray and Egon, the door is suddenly locked]
Ray : I've seen this before.
Egon : Where?
Ray : When you guys had me dangling like a worm on a hook 100 feet below 1st Avenue...
(the photo shows demonic Vigo and pans down to reveal...)
Ray : That's the river of slime.

And then the photos mysteriously are set ablaze and the fire spreads. Ray and Egon see the door is locked and yell for Winston to help. Thankfully, he bursts in, fire extinguisher in hand, in the knick of time.

From the wiki
"The Egon and Ray photo lab scene was filmed during reshoots to add a moment of danger." I say it worked.

"Egon mentions Multi-planar Kirlian emanations. Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. Semyon Kirlian believed it supposedly measured the "auras" of a living being."

"Egon mentions Roentgens, a unit of ionizing radiation or the amount producing one electrostatic unit of positive or negative ionic charge in one cubic centimeter of air under standard conditions."

Whenever that scene starts from Egon's question, I always get chills. And that shot of the demonic head of Vigo and panning down showing the river of slime. Eerie reveal IMO.

Here's an interesting snippet from GB2 Nightmare Fuel page :

The darkroom scene. Ray and Egon are in a claustrophobic room lit with red light (naturally), peering intensely at photographs of the possessed painting of Vigo, which suddenly all catch on fire at once after the doors silently seal shut without their knowledge. Not for the pyrophobic and/or claustrophobic.
Before all of that, their magnification of the photographs result in ever more hellish distortions of the paintings until it is just a closeup of Vigo in his demonic aspect, an enormous, severed horned head with red eyes and a mouth open in a silent scream of command, continuously dripping slime into a river flowing down an endless dark hallway of empty passages leading into infinity. That's some H. R. Giger shit right there. All the while Ray is ominously recalling his experience being dangled over the river of slime beneath the city, right before the pictures catch fire.

Made worse once you realize that Ghostbusters II is much more of a kid's film than the first movie (no one smokes except for Ray and even then he's only seen chewing on the end of an unlit pipe or cigar or holding one (he never has a cigarette); less swearing, far less sexual themes) and they still felt the need to include a scene where two of our main characters nearly die by being burned alive. The utter terror in Ray and Egon's voices as they start to panic and scream for Winston while banging on the door before resolving to run into the bathroom (though Ray questions what good that'll do)... What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?

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For Halloween, a spooky scene from Ghostbusters 2.

Egon : [Looking at Pictures of Vigo that Peter took earlier] We were right, Ray. Multi-palaner kirilian emanations.
Ray : [getting another picture] Yeah, well here is your next month's cover of GQ, check out the aura on this sucker. Now there is definitely a living presence there.
Egon : We should get a deeper look.
Ray : Why not I run this wider shot through the spectral analyzer?
Egon : Good, I'll try turning up the Roentgens.
[Puts a picture into the spectrogram, now talks about dinner]
Ray : So, what do you think, Chinese?
Egon : Uh, how about Thai?
Ray : Nah, too spicy. Greek?
Egon : Uh, Mexican?
Ray : Pizza?
Egon : Thin or thick?
Ray : Chicago.
Egon : [Takes out a picture of Vigo] What the hell is that?
[picks up his giant maginfying glass]
Ray : I know what it is.
[Unbeknownst to Ray and Egon, the door is suddenly locked]
Ray : I've seen this before.
Egon : Where?
Ray : When you guys had me dangling like a worm on a hook 100 feet below 1st Avenue...
(the photo shows demonic Vigo and pans down to reveal...)
Ray : That's the river of slime.

And then the photos mysteriously are set ablaze and the fire spreads. Ray and Egon see the door is locked and yell for Winston to help. Thankfully, he bursts in, fire extinguisher in hand, in the knick of time.

From the wiki
"The Egon and Ray photo lab scene was filmed during reshoots to add a moment of danger." I say it worked.

"Egon mentions Multi-planar Kirlian emanations. Kirlian photography is a collection of photographic techniques used to capture the phenomenon of electrical coronal discharges. Semyon Kirlian believed it supposedly measured the "auras" of a living being."

"Egon mentions Roentgens, a unit of ionizing radiation or the amount producing one electrostatic unit of positive or negative ionic charge in one cubic centimeter of air under standard conditions."

Whenever that scene starts from Egon's question, I always get chills. And that shot of the demonic head of Vigo and panning down showing the river of slime. Eerie reveal IMO.

Here's an interesting snippet from GB2 Nightmare Fuel page :

The darkroom scene. Ray and Egon are in a claustrophobic room lit with red light (naturally), peering intensely at photographs of the possessed painting of Vigo, which suddenly all catch on fire at once after the doors silently seal shut without their knowledge. Not for the pyrophobic and/or claustrophobic.
Before all of that, their magnification of the photographs result in ever more hellish distortions of the paintings until it is just a closeup of Vigo in his demonic aspect, an enormous, severed horned head with red eyes and a mouth open in a silent scream of command, continuously dripping slime into a river flowing down an endless dark hallway of empty passages leading into infinity. That's some H. R. Giger shit right there. All the while Ray is ominously recalling his experience being dangled over the river of slime beneath the city, right before the pictures catch fire.

Made worse once you realize that Ghostbusters II is much more of a kid's film than the first movie (no one smokes except for Ray and even then he's only seen chewing on the end of an unlit pipe or cigar or holding one (he never has a cigarette); less swearing, far less sexual themes) and they still felt the need to include a scene where two of our main characters nearly die by being burned alive. The utter terror in Ray and Egon's voices as they start to panic and scream for Winston while banging on the door before resolving to run into the bathroom (though Ray questions what good that'll do)... What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?

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