1984 was a great year for movies.

It’s then that Dana becomes possessed by the demonic Zuul, before turning into something much less human.

She added, “I misunderstood the script, because I thought the girl did turn into a dog.

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I’m an actor.

I really got into it.”

It turned out to be the wrong choice.

The Ghostbusters team, dirty and covered in marshmallow, in ‘Ghostbusters’

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Weaver continued the story with Graham Norton, giving Ivan Reitman’s reaction.

“He turned the camera off, he said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.

It’s so grotesque an editor might want to use it.’

Terror Dog in Ghostbusters: Afterlife

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InGhostbusters, Dana and Louis both do turn into dogs, and not like any dog we’d know.

These were creatures with red eyes whose only dog-like feature was that they moved around on all fours.

Their appearance is also the moment the movie goes from acomedy to pure horror.

Ghostbusters 1984 Poster

Three parapsychologists forced out of their university funding set up shop as a unique ghost removal service in New York City, attracting frightened yet skeptical customers.

Instead, they would have been seen as a joke.

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