Category: "Spook Central"
Ghostbusters Vintage Magazine Collection Completed
By Paul Rudoff on Apr. 11, 2015 at 5:57 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Real Ghostbusters, Extreme Ghostbusters, Books
The rest of the Ghostbusters vintage magazine articles have been scanned, cleaned, and added to Spook Central. Here's a nice little list... Ghostbusters Books page: • Fangoria #36 • Fangoria #39 • Fangoria #40 (and poster image) •… more »
Ghostbusters Movie & TV Script Collection Completed
By Paul Rudoff on Mar. 12, 2015 at 3:50 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Extreme Ghostbusters
It took six and a half years, but it has finally been completed. Spook Central is now home to scanned PDF eBooks of every Ghostbusters movie and television script that I have in my personal collection. Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Real… more »
High-Resolution Ghostbusters Photos & More
By Paul Rudoff on Feb. 20, 2015 at 11:30 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Extreme Ghostbusters
More of the Ghostbusters stuff I scanned in over the past few months has been added to the site. First up, the first draft of "The True Face of a Monster" script has been added to the Extreme Ghostbusters Scripts page. A big thanks to Matthew Jordan for… more »
Spook Central Halloween Treat - Early Ghostbusters II Script & More
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2014 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Home Video, Books , Tags: halloween_treat
For the past few years, Spook Central presented a Halloween treat to the community in the form of a special eBook PDF. It was never intended to be a regular tradition, but it's turned out to be that way. Whether it stays that way...who knows. This year,… more »
Spook Central's Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Plans & Donation Thank Yous
For the benefit of those of you who haven't been playing along at home, a little history... Due to Hurricane Sandy destroying my old home and leaving my family homeless for over a month (we lived in a Red Cross emergency shelter for six weeks before we… more »
We're Back - Spook Central Reopening / Spook Central Halloween Treat - Ghostbusters II Novel PDF eBook
By Paul Rudoff on Oct. 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 2, Books, Preservation , Tags: halloween_treat
See, even Janine is thrilled - and she doesn't excite easily... unless Egon is around. It was pretty much a year ago that Spook Central was put into a hiatus state due to Hurricane Sandy, and I feel that it's time it was brought back to life MWAHAHAHA!… more »
Hurricane Sandy Recovery/Spook Central Status Update
By Paul Rudoff on Jun. 24, 2013 at 4:27 PM , Categories: Personal, Spook Central , Tags: hurricane-sandy
http://tinyurl.com/rudoff-hurricane-sandy For those of you who haven't been playing along at home... Hurricane Sandy flooded my home of 23 years in East Rockaway, Long Island, New York with five feet of water on October 29, 2012. As a result, my family… more »
Spook Central Elementary Coming Soon (April Fools)
If you came to this site on April 1, 2013, you would have seen this Spook Central Elementary replacement main page instead of the Ghostbusters fansite Spook Central. The Spook Central Facebook page was also altered, too. Clicking on the link at the… more »
Spook Central Soon To Lose Its Oldest URL
In the late 1990s Spook Central moved around quite a bit from free webhost to free webhost. As a way to give the site some stability, and prevent my regular visitors from having the hassle of constantly updating their bookmarks, I signed up for a free… more »
Spook Central On Hiatus / Spook Central Halloween Treat - Making Ghostbusters PDF eBook
By Paul Rudoff on Nov. 9, 2012 at 7:46 PM , Categories: Personal, Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Books, Preservation , Tags: halloween_treat, hurricane-sandy
Last updated on November 11, 2012. Please check the blog post "Updates on Paul since November 16th and onward" for further updates. Spook Central On Hiatus Hey Everyone. Paul here writing in from the Red Cross emergency shelter at Nassau Community… more »
Spook Central's Hand-Drawn Tristan Jones Ghostbusters #9 Comic Cover
It now exists! Into this world was born the very first (and so far only) piece of officially-licensed Ghostbusters Spook Central merchandise! The Spook Central patches were the first piece of Spook Central merchandise (not counting the Spook Central… more »
Spook Central Webmaster, Paul Rudoff, Appears In Ghostbusters Comic Book
IDW's Ghostbusters #11 comic book, which comes out this Wednesday, July 25, 2012, features a scene in the Belda'r Cafe in Roswell, New Mexico with Peter Venkman and a female FBI agent. On page 19, there's a very special onlooker to the events... Does… more »
Shot On Site - A Look Into The Future
By Paul Rudoff on Apr. 9, 2012 at 5:17 AM , Categories: Spook Central, Ghostbusters 1, Ghostbusters 2, Filming Locations
This isn't a regular Shot On Site article, so I'm not going to tag it as such. This is really a look into the future of the Shot On Site feature here at Spook Central, as well as a few odds and ends that wouldn't fit as regular SOS articles. Let's talk… more »
Limited Edition Spook Central 15th Anniversary Patch
It's hard to believe, but this month marks 15 years since I uploaded the first version of Spook Central to my tiny Geocities account. It's quite a milestone for a website to still remain online after 15 years. Interestingly, Geocities can't make that… more »
More Love From The Cross The Streams Podcast
Excerpt from Episode 17 (July 19, 2011) Your browser does not support the audio tag. Matt Prov and Brendan Mertens over at the Ghostheads podcast released their 17th episode last week, and they mentioned Spook Central's and Ghostbusters News' mention in… more »
Spook Central's Small Screen Debut
Looks like something strange is going on in a mall over in Italy... more »
Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime Script
Mrmichaelt from the Ghostbusters Wiki has not only transcribed all of the cinematic and level dialog from Ghostbusters: Sanctum Of Slime, but he also got in touch with the game's writer, Tom Waltz, and snagged a copy of Mr. Waltz's original script for… more »
The Ghostbusters Community Proton Pack
A few months ago I wrote about how GBMax from Ghostbusters Mania decorated his Christmas tree and his cute little Ghostbusters Mania Ectomobile with home-made Ghostbusters community decorations. Now he's taken that devotion to the community one step… more »
Exclusive Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime Developer Q&A
With Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime coming out this Wednesday, March 23rd, on the Xbox Live Arcade, the PlayStation Network, and PC digital download (price $10), Atari is working overtime to get more and more information out to the fans up to the very… more »
Ghostheads Podcast Mentions Spook Central 14th Anniversary
Jason Hughes and Luke Crisalli (with guest Pat Harmon) over at the Ghostheads podcast released their 16th episode this past Friday, and I am honored that they spent a couple of minutes talking about Spook Central's 14th Anniversary in the broadcast… more »
Spook Central's 14th Anniversary Prize Giveaway Winner's List
To help celebrate the 14th anniversary of Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion, one of the longest-running Ghostbusters fan sites currently online, I held a prize giveaway from August 1st to August 7th 2010 to honor the momentous occasion. I… more »
New Spook Central Title Logo And Site Design
As you've undoubtedly have already noticed... The incredible Tristan Jones has put together a collection of new Spook Central title logos in honor of this site's 14th anniversary this month. There's a whole bunch of them, which should display randomly… more »
Spook Central 14th Anniversary Prize Giveaway
It was fourteen years ago this month, in August 1996, that I created Spook Central in my rinky-dink Geocities account. It was nothing big - just a picture of the library ghost, on a banana yellow background, with some links below it - but it was a… more »
Ghostbusters 1 & 2 Limited Edition DVD Gift Set Unboxing (Stay Puft Statue, Cards, Slime)
I just purchased the newly-released Ghostbusters 1 & 2 DVD Limited Edition Gift Set. It should be noted that I didn't purchase it for the DVDs, which is the 2005 Double Feature Gift Set (complete with movie scrapbook). I bought it for the bundled… more »
From The Vault - Slimer 3:16
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 24, 2009 at 12:00 PM , Categories: Spook Central, Fans, Internet , Tags: from-the-vault
Ten years and two weeks ago today I spotted a pretty cool Ghostbusters reference on the August 9, 1999 episode of the World Wrestling Federation's flagship program Raw Is War. I promptly reported it to Chris at Proton Charging, and he posted the… more »
From The Vault - Ghostbusters Online Community History
By Paul Rudoff on Aug. 11, 2009 at 1:06 AM , Categories: Spook Central, Internet , Tags: from-the-vault
It was a lucky 13 years ago this month that Spook Central opened up at Geocities.com/Hollywood/7218. Oddly enough, in a turn of events that I never would have seen coming back in 1996, Spook Central is actually going to outlast Geocities, which is set… more »
Ghostbusters Home Video Comments
I just made a HUGE multimedia update to the site. I have added every single still image/frame from the Ghostbusters Criterion Collection laserdisc and the Ghostbusters 1999 DVD. You can view them on the site (though a fast connection may be required… more »
Spook Central's Ghostbusters 25th Anniversary Prize Giveaway Winner's List
To help celebrate the 25th anniversary of one of the greatest ghost movies ever made - GHOSTBUSTERS - the long-running website, Spook Central: The Ghostbusters Companion, held a prize giveaway from June 8th (the 25th anniversary of Ghostbusters' U.S.… more »
Ghostbusters 25th Anniversary - Contest Open & Online Movie Showings
THIS IS IT, THIS IS DEFINITELY IT!! It was twenty-five years ago today, on Friday June 8, 1984 (not June 3rd, as that was a Sunday back then), that U.S. moviegoers first saw the ugly little spud attack, a terrifying dog running wild through Central… more »
Ghostbusters Video Game Comparison Pics
With the release of the Wii Slime trailer a few weeks back, Has anyone else noticed that the car is "Ecto-1B" in the PC/PS2/X360 version and "Ecto-1" in the PS2/Wii version? And there's two different style license plates, too! That's just great. So if… more »
