Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
It is the film's scariest turn: the flirtatious banter drops away and a horror film takes its place. The line replaces a person with a role, and it became fandom shorthand for a possessed friend or for any moment when the person you know is gone.
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In context
Spoilers for GhostbustersShow the scene
In Ghostbusters (1984), directed by Ivan Reitman, the demon Zuul, a minion of Gozer, has possessed Dana Barrett in her apartment. When Peter Venkman arrives for what he thinks is a date, Dana greets him as a seductress and says her name is Zuul, 'the Gatekeeper'. Peter keeps asking to speak to Dana until she answers in a monstrous demonic voice, and levitates above her bed. Peter later sedates her. The demonic voice was provided by Reitman himself, while Sigourney Weaver plays the possessed Dana.
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- Zuul, Ghostbusters WikiZuul in Ghostbusters (1984); infobox castReference checked
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