Spook Central Trailer: A Room 237-Style Documentary About Ghostbusters

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The release of Rodney Ascher’s documentary Room 237 earlier this year seems to have inspired a whole new brand of non-fiction filmmaking. His movie is an analysis of the themes and hidden messages in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, an essay in film form consisting of clips of Kubrick’s films with voiceover narration from several crackpot film theorists. Now director Ivo Shandor Michael H. Beck gives us the first trailer for Spook Central, a similar overexamination of Ivan Reitman’s horror-comedy hit Ghostbusters.

While it should come as no surprise that there are plenty of obsessive Ghostbusters fans out there, what may surprise you is that some of these people have delved pretty deep into what seems like a fairly straightforward popcorn flick. If you thought Room 237 got a bit too ridiculous at times, Spook Central crosses that line almost immediately. In fact, the whole thing seems to be played for laughs. While I have to admit it looks like fun, I also have to ask… are these people for real? The release date for Spook Central is still TBA; check out the trailer after the jump and see what you think.



  • devolutionary

    Ivo Shandor? Wow. His name alone sounds like a potential character to be used in a future Ghostbusters movie (Vigo Von Homburg, Janohz, Gozer the Gozerian).

  • Kurt

    Ivo Shandor built the building (*SPOOK CENTRAL*) in the original Ghostbusters.

  • Sean

    Hmm yeah it’s starting to sound like a viral joke to me. I got the name of the director from the YouTube video info, but according to the credits at the end of the trailer, it’s directed by Michael H. Beck.

    http://www.imdb.com/name/nm5486077/

    The character Ivo Shandor apparently played a major role in the Ghostbusters video game:

    http://ghostbusters.wikia.com/wiki/Ivo_Shandor

  • devolutionary

    Haha, that makes a lot more sense. I was thinking that maybe his parents were bigger fans of Ghostbusters than he was himself.