Ghostbusters

Continuity mistake: After the meeting with the ghost of the mansion Erin hugs Abby and she gets the ectoplasm from her, but in the next shot it disappears.

Continuity mistake: When Patty is sitting in the booth and Kevin says she's there, in the next shot Kevin is messing with a rubber band and Erin asks him to answer the phone, in the next shot he is not holding the rubber band. (00:40:13 - 00:40:36)

Continuity mistake: Garret the tour guide gets burned on his hand. After he breaks the square his hand isn't burned.

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Continuity mistake: The position of the flashlight that Patty drops after seeing the ghost in the subway tunnel for the first time changes between shots.

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Continuity mistake: When they arrive at the concert and are taken downstairs, the guy is explaining about Fernando. If you look at the high voltage strap she is wearing the writing changes to right way up to upside down then back again between shots.

Continuity mistake: An early shot of the Chinese Restaurant shows an open garage and the white bonnet of the new Ecto-1, despite the fact the Ecto-1 had yet to be introduced into the movie at that point.

Continuity mistake: After the meeting with the ghost of the mansion Erin hugs Abby and she gets the ectoplasm from her, but in the next shot it disappears.

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Patty Tolan: [As a ghost leaves on the subway.] I guess he's going to Queens - he's going to be the third scariest thing on that train.

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Trivia: The "Demonic Balloons" that attack the Ghostbusters are almost direct re-creations of real Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons from the 1930's. The filmmakers decided to use the real designs in order to represent the "spirits" of New York's history... and also because they were quite eerie and unsettling.

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