The Ghostbusters are back from the dead.
In “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” the franchise that began with 1984’s surprise smash “Ghostbusters” and continued with the 1989 sequel “Ghostbusters II,” is resurrected. (The 2016 all-female reboot, now commonly referred to as “Ghostbusters: Answer the Call,” has been ignored completely.) This new entry in the franchise follows a single mother named Callie (Carrie Coon) and her two young children (Grace McKenna and Finn Wolfhard) as they take over her estranged father’s estate following his abrupt death. I
t’s while they are going through his things, in the middle of nowhere, that she discovers her connection to the original Ghostbusters and has a hand in avoiding a similar supernatural calamity.