37 years ago

In 1984, Ghostbusters was a truly massive hit. Bigger even than Custom Car. Despite its enormous budget, for the time, of $30m, it grossed ten times that at the box office, making it the highest earning comedy film ever at the time, and one of the most successful films of the 1980s. So much so the film’s friendly ghost logo even made it onto the front of CC, along with a freebie sticker inside and a competition to win a Hitachi 330 stereo radio / cassette player and a tape of the film’s equally successful soundtrack.

Continuing the film thems, also made an was a literary dollar sign”, the film cost $10m to make and grossed just twice that, relegating it almost immediately to the ‘cult classic’ corner.