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Ghostbusted (18 min, MiniDV, 2001)
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Watch the Outtake Reel "Ghostbusted Zero"
(57.6 MB, 27.5 min, Quicktime MP4)
Watch Mike Stoklasa's music video "Born in South Dakota"
(5 min, 7.3 MB, Realplayer)
You should watch Ghostbusted 3 first, as this is the weakest of the three Ghostbusted films.
There's something stupid in the neighborhood ....
In 2001, I attempted to make a Ghostbusters movie. I failed. As actors left and didn't take the movie seriously on any level, the shoot spiraled out of control into a ridiculous nonsensical mess. This movie is that mess.
The results are more interesting than a "normal" movie would have been, due largely to amusing editing by Mike Stoklasa. This is an improv piece shot on vacation at the Camp Rewind Film Festival in South Dakota, 2001. All the "actors" are amateur filmmakers - directors and actors. They had come from all across the country.
The "story" of the Ghostbusted team was finally started and finished in Ghostbusted 3 - which was called The Real Ghostbusted since it finally had a story, and was about Ghostbusters - the movie I'd been trying to make all along.
Starring Jason Santo, Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, Natalie Sanders, Ryan Winford, Jon Ashby, Alan Winston. Directed by Garrett Gilchrist.
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Never before have directors and actors from so many different amateur movie companies been gathered together in one place, and in one movie. Pity the place had to be South Dakota, and the movie had to be this one.
Image Gallery
Watch at Youtube
Watch the Outtake Reel "Ghostbusted Zero"
(57.6 MB, 27.5 min, Quicktime MP4)
Watch Mike Stoklasa's music video
"Born in South Dakota"
(5 min, 7.3 MB, Realplayer)
Read the articles by Jason Santo that inspired the film:
"I ain't afraid of no ghost"
"Bill Murray doesn't even look like the real Peter Venkman"
Read part of the unfilmed script:
Ghostbusted Unused Script
Camp Rewind 2001 Image Gallery
Transients Image Gallery
Torgo Image Gallery
Born in South Dakota
REwindvideo.com, based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and headed up by Jon Ashby and Wally Fong, was a website and video magazine dedicated to the no-budget filmmaker. This was before Youtube, and for a lot of young filmmakers meeting in the forums there in 1999 or so, this was the first time we'd realized there were other people out there shooting movies for no money.
All that sounds naive and strange now in this era of Youtube - just a few years later - but it was a big thing for many of us to meet other amateur feature filmmakers online. I became a fan of comedy directors like Mike Stoklasa, Jay Bauman, and the Queequeg Films team. There always seemed to be a rivalry between the comedy people and the other folks - I felt the comedians were the better filmmakers and not being taken seriously. Mind you, I was quite young and clueless myself.
Marc and Michael Linn of Linn Productions, Rapid City, South Dakota, had been making movies for years - they had made some excellent amateur movies before starting a successful video production company, and filming features like Into His Arms (and later Imprint). They held the first ever Camp REwind Film Festival in Rapid City, South Dakota during July 2001. This was the first time that people from these amateur filmmaking groups, many of whom were already fans of each other's work, had met one another. It was Random Foo's Jason Santo who, showing an insane amount of generosity, actually bought Garrett a plane ticket to attend this amazing shindig. I gave Jason a Ghostbusters t-shirt as a gift, and immediately got an idea. You see, Jason had written an article for crazymofo.com about wanting to be a Ghostbuster for real.
Jason Santo filmed a short called "Transients" while he was there. I decided to film a short with a Ghostbusters theme. I wrote a script, but there wasn't time to film it once the fest got started - too much was happening. Jason himself walked off halfway through the film, as he had to edit "Transients" in time for showing at the fest.
It wouldn't be until 2003 that I would actually shoot a Ghostbusters movie at Camp Rewind - Ghostbusted 3, aka "The Real Ghostbusted." Jason Santo walked off halfway through that one too!
"Ghostbusted" became more of a documentary, since what was shot was so chaotic and random. With the exception of the first scene with Jason and April Cresey, the entire movie is improvised. The movie is considered unfinished, but has an off-kilter sense of fun to it, since the cast, while making it, were almost never totally aware what they were supposed to be doing or whether this was even a real movie or not. Pure vacation fun, a good tribute to this rare event.
I did have a clear idea of what this footage should be used for and what order it should be in. Editor Mike Stoklasa ignored this, however, and made his own sense of the footage. Known for comedically experimental editing in shorts like "Monkey Man Gets His," Stoklasa put his own stamp on the movie, placing scenes in a different order, making his own scenes out of outtakes and footage not intended for use in the film, cutting at odd points, not cutting at all during many scenes and overall turning the thing into a weird hazy trip that's almost certainly far more interesting than what I would have done with it.
Linn Productions, who hosted the Fest, actually had a working Ecto-1-like car and many great Ghostbusting props which would have come in handy in making the film, but there was no time to finish the film and include these items - not until Ghostbusted 3, two years later.
Mike, Jay and I were actually kicked out of Arby's for making fun of their calling horseradish "horsey sauce." We shot the scene at Shaky's instead.
I later edited together an outtake reel called "Ghostbusted Zero," featuring a full-length documentary where people at the fest are asked "What sort of Ghostbuster would you be?" Due to that, it's longer than the movie.
Inside Jokes
During the opening Orange Cow Productions logo, an animated man peeks out and says "Ow, my groin!" This is Rich Evans, star of nearly all of editor Mike Stoklasa's movies.
The opening scene was shot at the Dahl theater, where the Fest took place. Tempers flare when Marc Linn refers to Alan Winston as "Adam." In real life, Alan had been referred to as Adam in a newspaper article, and was then referred to as "Adam" for weeks, prompting him to create an episode of his local cable show "Delusions of Grandeur" entitled "My name is NOT Adam!!" (At the end of the film, [real-life girlfriend] Erin Arbogast also calls him Adam.) Refences are made to Alan playing a Jedi, referencing Scream, and making 60 episodes of a tv show (Delusions of Grandeur). Alan has done all these things.
The bathroom make-out scene with Alan and Erin is a spoof of a similar scene in Jason Santo's "Transients," also shot at the Fest. In both scenes, Erin asks, "It's only our second date. Am I a tramp?"
When Jason drives up to the ranch and meets Jon Ashby, Ashby refers to Jason as "Max Bookwalter." This refers to b-movie maker J.R.R. Bookwalter, and Max Von Sydow (who played Ming the Merciless in the 80s Flash Gordon movie - Santo's online nickname was Ming).
Jon Ashby is called "Jon Calgary," after his Canadian home. Count how many times Jon says "eh" in this film. His REwind co-host Wally Fong is called Jackie Lee, after Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee - Wally fancies himself an action star.The rest of the REwind/Infiniti team appear at the end to say "I love you, Canada."
Mike Stoklasa is referred to as "Eddie," or "Big K." This refers to a character Stoklasa first played in Jay Bauman's comedy "The Trouble With Her Uterus."
The evil doll known as "Mooshoo" was star of many of Mike's movies including the feature "Blunt Justice," always getting beaten up by Rich Evans.
Jay Bauman at one point is seen leafing through pictures of the cast from his movie "The Trouble with Her Uterus."
Quotes from the Movie
"What the plog?" - Jay Bauman
"I love it man, I love your stuff. I love you and I love your wife, she's so beautiful. In fact, if I could have her autograph too ..." - Marc Linn
"Parry, dodge, nmhf." - Jason Santo
"You've got the horsey sauce, and then you've got the horsey sauce. Horsey sauce." - Jay Bauman
"Would you stop saying horsey sauce? What?" - Mike Stoklasa
"What's wrong with laying anything?" - Garrett Gilchrist
"He can slime people, which I love to do." - Michael Linn
"Maybe you should speak before you think." - Mike Stoklasa
"Hey guys! Somebody say cock?" - Jon Ashby
"Helicopter. Chirp. Sand. Sand. Sand. Sand. Sand." - Ryan Winford
"Shut up!" - Garrett Gilchrist
"To Luke, uh, Perry." - Jon Ashby
"I'm a Japanese man." - Ryan Winford
"It's gonna be a bitchin' party!" - Anthony Stella
"Whaaaat?" - Mike Stoklasa
Review
"GHOSTBUSTED is a short movie shot at the first annual Camp REwind/REwind International Media Festival in Rapid City, South Dakota. Supposedly improvised completely, the movie doesn't really make much sense... but it's still really funny.
Director Garrett Gilchrist had a vision to shoot a Ghostbuster movie at the first Camp REwind... what resulted is a hodgepodge of scenes cut together with no real plot or story except that, every so often, Ghostbusters or ghostbusting is mentioned or alluded to.
The movie features talent from all over the United States and from the Infiniti Productions group from Canada. It is hard to review the movie because of what different turns it makes, but I will mention the parts I liked and didn't like.
Mike Stoklasa edited this comedic gem together, and I believe he is the sole reason that the movie is so funny. My favorite parts would have to be the Horsey sauce scene, the caulk scene, the Mt. Rushmore scene, and the "Did that doll talk?" scene. Each of those scenes would be nothing without the editing. I also really like the "spreading the love" near the end of the short, and the scene with Adam (I mean Alan) Winston and Erin Arbogast at the movie's opening. The scene I really don't like is the part where Jon and Jason walk around the Linn Ranch and run into Wally. This part of the movie is REALLY, REALLY boring and throws everything off when Wally looks directly into the camera and gives a thumbs up.
With the exception of that one part of the movie, the rest is genius. Or maybe not, but it's still really funny for some people, including myself. This movie really made me want to meet the gang from Queequeg, too (another group whose movies I haven't seen that I am dying to see). I heard GHOSTBUSTED 2 was shot at this year's Camp REwind. It's certainly got a lot to live up to."
- John Simpson, The Amateur Movie Database
Conceived and directed by Garrett Gilchrist
Interview cameraman and Editor: Mike Stoklasa
Jason Santo as Max Bookwalter
April Santo as Janine
Jon Ashby as Jon Calgary
Mike Stoklasa as Eddie "Big K" Gore
Natalie Sanders as Eddie's girl
Jay Bauman as Jay Bauman
Anthony Stella as Some Guy
Alan Winston as Alan Winston
Erin Arbogast as Erin Arbogast
Marc Linn as Marc Evans
Jeremy Gardner as Jeremy
Ryan Winford as Colby
Christian Stella as Charlie
Wally Fong as Jackie Lee
Jared Hargrave as Jared
Daniel Kelley as Daniel
Garrett Gilchrist as The Interviewer
Mooshoo as Himself
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Michael Linn as Michael Linn
Steve Gervais, Murray Boyer, Wei Quek as the Canadians
Chris Frommeyer as Football Guy
Rob Hastings, Garrett Forni as Spitting Guys
Jonathan Margheim, Bobby Brown, Thanh Tran as Guys Who Hate
18 min., 2001.
Image Gallery
Watch at Youtube
Watch the Outtake Reel "Ghostbusted Zero"
(57.6 MB, 27.5 min, Quicktime MP4)
Watch Mike Stoklasa's music video
"Born in South Dakota"
(5 min, 7.3 MB, Realplayer)
Read the articles by Jason Santo that inspired the film:
"I ain't afraid of no ghost"
"Bill Murray doesn't even look like the real Peter Venkman"
Read part of the unfilmed script:
Ghostbusted Unused Script
Camp Rewind 2001 Image Gallery
Transients Image Gallery
Torgo Image Gallery
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