Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

A comedy film Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021), directed by Jason Reitman and co-written with Gil Kenan, takes place in Summerville, Oklahoma. There, Egon Spengler captures a supernatural being at occultist Ivo Shandor’s mine near the town and lures another to his farm. Despite the failure of his elaborate setup due to a power outage, Egon manages to hide the ghost trap in his home before succumbing to a fatal heart attack. Following Egon’s death, his daughter Callie inherits the farm and moves there with her children Trevor and Phoebe after being forced out of their Chicago apartment. While Trevor becomes enamored with carhop Lucky Domingo, Phoebe attends a summer science class taught by seismologist Gary Grooberson as she shares her father’s scientific curiosity.

After discovering the farmhouse’s haunting, Phoebe follows the poltergeist’s lead to a ghost trap, which she then shows to Gary and her new acquaintance, Podcast. As a Ghostbusters enthusiast, Gary helps Phoebe uncover more about both the paranormal hunters and her own grandfather. Together with Podcast, they tinker with the trap and unintentionally release one of Gozer the Gozerian’s Sentinels. The Sentinel escapes to a nearby mine while the farm ghost leads Phoebe to her grandfather’s underground lab. Egon reveals himself as her grandfather and assists her in restoring their equipment. While testing out a proton pack with Podcast, they encounter a familiar ghost known as “Muncher”, who haunts Shandor’s foundry before fleeing into town.