It must be great to be one of the Ghostbusters. You get to hang out with Bill Murray (or Kate McKinnon, or Mckenna Grace), wear those snazzy jumpsuits, and generally be the talk of the town. The only problem (well, apart from lugging an unlicensed nuclear reactor on your back, and coming into contact with the horrific spirits of the dead) is the hours. Nobody’s calling the Ghostbusters at lunchtime, which is exactly what Netflix wants to convey with the title of their new Ghostbusters series.
Netflix has now revealed that their new Ghostbusters animated series will be titled Ghostbusters: Night Shift. The announcement was made on Saturday, which has been declared “Ghostbusters Day” to celebrate the anniversary of the first film’s release on June 8, 1984. Showrunners Ben Hibon and Elliott Kalan, along with executive producers Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, unveiled the show’s title and underground zine-style logo at a ceremony at the Hook & Ladder 8 firehouse in New York City, where the original Ghostbusters and several of its sequels have been filmed. All other details about the series are being kept securely trapped in the Containment Unit, including which team of cinematic Ghostbusters, if any, the series will follow.
Collider Exclusive · Horror Survival Quiz Which Horror Villain Do You Have the Best Chance of Surviving? Jason Voorhees · Michael Myers · Freddy Krueger · Pennywise · Chucky
Five killers. Five completely different ways to die — if you’re not smart enough, fast enough, or self-aware enough to avoid it. Only one of them is the villain your particular set of instincts gives you a fighting chance against. Eight questions will figure out which one.
🏕️Jason
🔪Michael
💤Freddy
🎈Pennywise
🪆Chucky
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Something feels wrong. You can’t explain it — you just know. What do you do? First instincts are the difference between the survivor and the first act casualty.
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Where are you most likely to find yourself when things go wrong? Setting is everything in horror. Where you are determines which rules apply.
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What is your most reliable survival asset? Every survivor has a quality the villain didn’t account for. What’s yours?
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What kind of fear is hardest for you to fight through? Knowing your weakness is the first step to not dying because of it.
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You’re with a group when things start going wrong. What’s your role? Horror movies are brutally clear about who survives group situations and who doesn’t.
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What’s the horror movie mistake you’re most likely to make? Honest self-assessment is a survival skill. Denial is not.
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What’s your best weapon against something that can’t be stopped by conventional means? Every horror villain has a weakness. The survivors are always the ones who find it.
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It’s the final scene. You’re the last one standing. How did you make it? The final survivor always has a reason. What’s yours?
Your Survival Odds Have Been Calculated Your Best Chance Is Against…
Your instincts, your strengths, and your particular way of thinking under pressure point to one villain you actually have a fighting chance against. Everyone else — good luck.
Camp Crystal Lake · Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees
Jason is relentless, but he is also predictable — and that is the gap you would exploit.
He moves in straight lines toward his target. He doesn’t strategise, doesn’t adapt, doesn’t outsmart. He simply pursues.
Your ability to keep moving, use the environment, and resist the panic that freezes most victims gives you a genuine edge.
The Crystal Lake survivors were always the ones who stopped running in circles and started thinking about terrain, water, and distance.
You think like that. Which means Jason, for all his indestructibility, would face someone who simply refused to be where he expected.
Haddonfield, Illinois · Halloween
Michael Myers
Michael watches before he moves. He is patient, methodical, and almost impossible to detect — until it’s too late for anyone who isn’t paying close enough attention.
But you are paying attention. You notice the shape in the window, the car parked slightly wrong, the silence where there should be sound.
Michael’s power lies in the invisibility of ordinary suburbia — the fact that nothing ever looks wrong until it already is.
Your spatial awareness and instinct to map every room, every exit, and every shadow before you need them is precisely the quality Laurie Strode had.
You are not a victim waiting to happen. You are someone who already suspects something is wrong — and acts on it.
Elm Street · A Nightmare on Elm Street
Freddy Krueger
Freddy wins by getting inside your head — using your own fears, your own memories, your own subconscious as weapons against you. That strategy requires a target who can be destabilised.
You are harder to destabilise than most. You’ve faced uncomfortable truths about yourself and you haven’t looked away.
The survivors on Elm Street were always the ones who understood what was happening and chose to face it rather than flee from it.
Freddy’s greatest weakness is that his power evaporates in the presence of someone who refuses to give him the fear he feeds on.
Your psychological resilience — the ability to stay grounded when reality itself becomes unreliable — is exactly the quality that keeps you alive here.
Derry, Maine · It
Pennywise
Pennywise is ancient, shapeshifting, and feeds on terror — but it has one critical vulnerability: it cannot function against someone who genuinely stops being afraid of it.
The Losers Club didn’t survive because they were braver than everyone else. They survived because they faced their fears together, and faced them honestly.
You ask the questions others avoid. You look directly at what frightens you rather than turning away.
That directness — the refusal to let fear fester in the dark — is Pennywise’s worst nightmare.
It chose the wrong target when it chose you. You are exactly the kind of person whose fear tastes like nothing at all.
Chicago · Child’s Play
Chucky
Chucky’s greatest advantage is that nobody takes him seriously until it’s already too late. He exploits the gap between how something looks and what it actually is.
You don’t have that gap. You take threats seriously regardless of how they present — and you never make the mistake of underestimating something because of its size or appearance.
Chucky relies on surprise, on the delay between recognition and response. You close that delay faster than almost anyone.
Your instinct to treat every unfamiliar thing with appropriate scepticism — rather than dismissing it because it seems absurd — is the exact quality that keeps you breathing.
Against Chucky, not laughing is already winning. You are very good at not laughing.
What Other ‘Ghostbusters’ Animated Series Are There?
While Ghostbusters remains one of the most popular horror comedies in cinema history, it fully secured itself a place in the hearts and minds of 1980s kids everywhere via The Real Ghostbusters, an animated series following up on the events of the film. Any discontinuities between the series and the film were explained away in “Take Two,” an episode that revealed the movie was an in-universe picture about the exploits of the real Ghostbusters. Quips Winston Zeddemore, “Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis? What is this, a law firm?” The series was a massive success, running for six seasons and spawning a successful Kenner toyline. The series was revived in 1997 as Extreme Ghostbusters, with an older Egon leading a team of college-aged Ghostbusters.
The new animated series is set to hit Netflix three years after the franchise’s last big-screen adventure, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, debuted in theaters. A sequel is reportedly in development, as is an animated feature.
Ghostbusters: Night Shift will premiere on Netflix in 2027. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.
