Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 4K 2024 HDR 2160p WEB-DL

The Heirs is set around Egon Spenger's (Harold Ramis) grandchildren Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (McKenna Grace), who unwittingly become involved in yet another ghost story.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire 4K Review
Released in 2021, the sci-fi comedy “Ghostbusters: The Heirs,” directed by Jason Reitman, was a nostalgic postcard to all fans of his father, Ivan Reitman's immortal dildo, made in memory of the late Harold Ramis, an actor from the original cast. And despite a skeptical audience - the world still remembers Paul Feig's “Ghostbusters” - “The Heirs” managed to get a lukewarm reception and even beat the production budget at the box office. Reitman Jr.'s film, by and large completely unambitious, resurrected half-forgotten memories from childhood, spoiled the audience with passphrases and in every possible way claimed for not the most honorable title of guilty pleasure: “Ghostbusters”, on which you can go to the movies, but which certainly will not be revisited at home. For this reason, the decision of Sony Pictures to shoot another installment of the franchise already at the announcement stage seemed completely illogical, and what is there - unpromising, especially against the backdrop of a sluggish crisis at the international box office. Jason Reitman's departure from the post of the project's director only confirmed these fears.

The plot of “Chilling Horror” unfolds in New York. The descendants of Egon Spangler (Harold Ramis) - Phoebe (McKenna Grace), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), Kelly (Carrie Coon) - as well as Gary Grubertson (Paul Rudd) settle in an old firehouse, which was once bought out by their predecessors, the original Ghostbusters. As the most active and still underage member of the team, Phoebe antagonizes her relatives who want to keep her out of trouble. In an attempt to find support, Phoebe meets the ghost of a girl Melody (Emily Lind) who died in a fire. Meanwhile, Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd) buys a curious item from hoarder Nadim Razmaadi (Kumail Nanjiani), which turns out to be a dangerous artifact that holds the spirit of the evil demon Garrak. And while the Spangler family once again resolves the conflict with New York Mayor Walter Peck (William Atherton), Garrak organizes a real ghostly conspiracy and prepares a new apocalypse.

The sequel to “The Heirs” intentionally or accidentally echoes 1989's “Ghostbusters 2.” The action of the movie is again transferred to New York, ghost hunters again quarrel with the authorities, and sleeping centuries-old evil is again trapped in an ancient artifact. In terms of scale, “Chilling Horror” also tries to outdo “The Heirs” just as “Ghostbusters 2” once tried to outdo the original. The only problem is that Ivan Reitman's sequel anticipated the audience's expectations and raised the stakes considerably (what a scene with a giant marshmallow man!), while Gil Keenan's movie, the new director of the franchise, doesn't even try to leave the safe comfort zone, expanding only quantitatively, but not qualitatively.

While there is some incredible overkill with the number of main characters in “Chilling Horror”. Keenan is in a hurry to introduce new ghostbusters into the story (Phoebe, Trevor, Kelly Spangler, Gary Gruber, Lucky Domingo, Podcast), but at the same time can not say goodbye to the old team (Ray Stantz, Winston Zeddmore, Peter Venkman, Janine Melnitz). As a result, there's elementary not enough time for either. And if in the case of Finn Wolfhard such a “missing” role can be explained by the busyness on the set of the new season of “Very Strange Cases”, then for Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon becomes an elementary offense - none of them signed up to participate in the masses. “The Heirs” not without effort, but still created a core of charming characters, which “Ice Horror” should stick to, rather than turn into a cute background for a sci-fi attraction.

By the way, the attraction in the fourth installment of “Ghostbusters” was somehow unlucky, too. Keenan carefully brings back to the screen the beloved artifacts of Reitman's dilemma - the slimy Lizardman, the marshmallow men, the old Ecto-1 car - but forgets that the new film also needs fantasy, and the new generation of “Ghostbusters” - memorable ghosts. The scenes of contact with the supernatural in “The Ice Horror” are shot so lazily that you can't help but wonder if Keenan and Reitman really did it. The goat-horned demon Garrak as big bad could have been the perfect monster for a Supernatural episode, but he hardly qualifies as a full-fledged antagonist, and he only appears in the first third of the movie. Throughout the main timeline, Guinan tries to justify the family movie genre by intensifying the conflict within the Spangler unit, contrasting Phoebe's desire for independence with the mistrust and hyper-control of her elders, who, as is often the case, end up being right.

The most embarrassing thing about this situation is the fact that already in the first week of the box office collections of the frankly inert “Ghostbusters: Chilling Horror” bypassed ‘The Heirs’, which means that the reboot's threequel will be. This is transparently hinted at and the scene after the credits. We can only hope that next time Keenan and Reitman will take their passports from Sony producers and make a much more independent and less fanservice movie - for the sake of art and without looking at the audience.