Ghostbusters: Curse of the Poltergeist

On the set of a movie, actors and actresses stood in their required positions acting out their parts. The film director sat in his chair watching the scene play out. He held a wrapped up booklet in his hand and lightly batted it against his leg. The movie itself was obviously supposed to be a horror film due to the actresses screaming and the setting on the set. The director stood up from his chair with a pleased look on his face.

"CUT!" He called.

The performers stood down from their roles and looked at the director.

"I like what I see so far. Everybody take ten."

Everyone stopped what they were doing went on to do their own thing for their ten minute break. A few actors and actresses were covered in mud or had torn clothing. They pretty much looked like they've just been through hell. One of the actors grabbed a cup of water from the table and began drinking it. As he stood there he noticed a cup fall over. It kinda aroused his curiosity seemingly how no one had knocked it over. It was like it fell over on its own. He then he saw two more cups on the other end of the table fall over.

"What the hell?" He said.

He looked around to see if anyone else had noticed and no one had. Then the air was filled with a loud scream. Everyone turned towards the direction of the scream to see one of the actresses being held in midair. People gathered underneath of her in hopes that they'd catch her if she fell. After a few moments of kicking and screaming the actress fell or more like dropped. The people under her caught her.

"Are you all right? What happened?" The director asked.

"It felt as if something grabbed me and held me in the air."

Then an older man wearing all black appeared. "You all will be judged. Do not finish this movie or else you'll all feel the wrath of the beast. BE GONE." He said as his eyes glowed with a bright white light.

At that moment every person part of the movie ran out off the set. The man laughed heartily.



At the Ghostbusters firehouse, Roland, Kylie and Dustin were sitting in the living room watching a horror movie. The current scene caused Kylie to practically jump onto Dustin's lap. Suddenly, the phone rang. Roland reached over and picked it up.

"Ghostbusters. Griffin Dunne, huh? You have a ghost on your set? You sure it's not one of your props? We'll be right over."

Roland hung up the phone and looked to the other two.

"What was his name?"

"Griffin Dunne?"

"Where have I heard that name before?" Dustin asked.

"He must've thought that one of his own props was the real thing." Dustin joked while getting up.

"Where is the place?" Kylie asked.

"Upstate New York."

While the Ghostbusters were on their way, Dustin sat in the back trying to figure out where he had heard that name before. It was driving him crazy. Kylie looked back to see Dustin's perplexed look.

"What's wrong?"

"I can't think of where I've heard that name before." He replied.

"He said he was a director." Roland said.

Suddenly, it came to him. "Ah, Griffin Dunne the director slash actor. He's the son of writer Dominick Dunne and the brother of Dominique Dunne who was murdered back in nineteen eighty two. Did he give a description on what the ghost looked like?"

Roland shook his head. "No. All he said was that there was a ghost on the set of his new movie."

"Did he say what movie he was directing?"

"Poltergeist Four."

"He's making a fourth one after the hell that the first three went through?"



"What do you mean?" Kylie asked.

"It's rumored to be that the three Poltergeist movies are cursed."

"Cursed? How?" She asked.

"I'm not sure how or why they would be cursed but from the stories I heard that people say the movies are cursed because of the deaths of the people who have been involved with the movies."

"It's just a coincidence that the people died right?" Roland asked.

"That's what a lot of non believers think. But remember that we are Ghostbusters and we see things that a lot of people don't believe in. They say the curse started back in nineteen eighty two with the death of Dunne's sister Dominique, then it continued in eighty five with the death of actor Julian Beck from stomach cancer. He played Kane, the antagonist of the movies. Will Sampson, who played a medicine man in the movie died in eighty seven of post operative kidney failure and finally in eighty eight Heather O'Rourke died of Crohn's Disease. Even though that these deaths are explained and normal, it's led to believe that the death of these four with in six years was part of the Poltergeist Curse."

"How do you know this stuff?" Roland asked.

"I came across it when I was going through American folklore." Dustin said.

"So no one knows why these movies are cursed?"

Dustin shook his head. "Not to my knowledge. But if anyone were to know it would probably be Griffin Dunne."

A short while later, the three Ghostbusters arrived. The three of them stepped out of the car and geared up. Dustin put on his original proton pack while Kylie attached the circular trap on her back and Roland put on his newer proton pack. They looked around to see no one around.

"It seems pretty dead here." Roland said.

"Careful on the use of the word dead, Roland." Dustin said.

"Ghostbusters?" A voice called out.

They turned around to see an older man with lengthy dark brown hair that didn't go past his neck. He had to be at least in his late forties early fifties.

"That's us." Dustin said.



"Griffin Dunne. It's a pleasure to meet you." Griffin said shaking the hands of the three Ghostbusters.

"On the phone you mentioned a ghost of some kind haunting the set." Roland said.

"That's correct. I really didn't get a great look at him. I was more worried about the production crew to get out of the building."

"Was anyone hurt?" Kylie asked.

"Not really. One of the actresses was held in the air for a brief period of time."

"So this thing can attack the living." Dustin said. "Do you think that this has anything to do with the Poltergeist Curse?"

"I didn't really think about it but now that you mention it, I would say so."

"Do you know what caused the curse?"

"No one knows for sure but if you have seen the first movie and remember the scene of when JoBeth Williams' character was forced outside and into the hole where the pool was going to be and all of those skeletons started popping up. They weren't props. They were real skeletons."

The eyes of the three Ghostbusters widened.

"You mean to tell us that those skeletons were real?" Kylie asked.

Griffin nodded.

"That's asking for trouble. What possessed the crew to do that? No pun intended."

"They said it was cheaper to use real skeletons than to make fake ones."

The four of them walked inside to the set to see everything a complete mess. The Ghostbusters pulled out their blasters waiting for something to happen. There was no sign of any ghost or poltergeist. Dustin pulled out his P.K.E. Meter and its tower extended with two antennas folding out with their tips flashing.

"I'm definitely picking up psychokinetic energy."

"Where?" Kylie asked.

"Straight ahead."



They looked ahead to see a figure appear. A man dressed in black, pale skin and bone white hair covered by a black hat. His face was covered in wrinkles and his mouth was could reach ear to ear if he smiled. It was Reverend Henry Kane.

"They're heeerrreee." Dustin said.