For all of those joining me for the first time, welcome to the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters Halloween countdown here at Branded in the 80s! I had a blast last year, so again I’m counting down 31 of my favorite monsters from the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. All of these monsters come straight from my vintage animation cel collection, and my wife and I tried our best to put them in a not-so-scary to really-freaking-creepy kind of order with the creepiest falling on All Hallows Eve.
Like yesterday’s creep, today’s is from episode 86, Loathe Thy Neighbor. Though it’s only in about one and a half minutes of the episode, it’s a pretty freaky looking vampire/gargoyle…
Unfortunately, the only available cel I could get my hands on was one with his eyes closed. Even so this is still one freaky looking monster! It reminds me a bit of the gargoyles in the Tales From the Darkside movie, and a little bit like Man-Bat from the Batman comics…
This guy, though vengeful and kind of mean, was not the monster the Ghostbusters were hired to catch in the House they were exorcizing. Instead he was probably a family pet that Winston ends up vaporizing. C’est la vie.
Come back tomorrow for another Real Ghostbusters monster animation cel as I count down towards one of my favorite on Halloween day!
Also, if you feel inclined, I would love everyone to spread the word about the Return of the 31 Days of Monsters countdown, so hit up those social networks and tell a friend (my twitter handle is smurfwreck, and I’m on the Facebook as well.) If you’d like to read more Halloween-y goodness, you can also click on the Halloween Archive link to the left (the banner with King Kong), as well as heading on over to the Countdown to Halloween to check out lists of a bunch of other sites participating in this year’s Halloween blogging event…
