Just watched this for first time in way to long, but what I love most is that the character of Spengler is my dad! He looks just like him and acts like him to. He loves that scientific type of thinking and he is the head of the science of division at our local community collage. The line "i collect spores molds and fungus make me think of him. When i tell him he is like him he cant help but agree for the most part.

I guess in a post-Room 237 world there's slightly less reason to doubt that it's a real trailer. When I watched 237, I kept wondering if it was itself some kind of satire or lampooning of something or other; I kept waiting for that other shoe to drop. But, as people have said, the movie essentially just says "Yeah, so, you know... some people think these things. Kthnxbye."

When Ghostbusters 2 came out it was playing in the hotel I was staying at (the hotel was the local cinema) and if you stayed at the hotel you got to go in for free.  We stayed at the hotel for 7 nights, I went and watched Ghostbusters 2 six out of those seven nights.

I was twelve, I did not know better.

As for Ghostbusters... I had the story on a cassette tape which came with a readalong book (when I was even younger). I did not see the film Ghostbusters until waaaaay after I had seen the second one.