With any documentary, especially a labour of love about a decades-old genre favourite, you expect that there will be plenty that has been left on the cutting room floor to ensure that the feature can align with an agreed running time.

With 2019’s Cleanin’ Up The Town: Remembering Ghostbusters, fitting every story from the set, every special effect that was created in a world before CGI, every talking head reminiscing about their experience, into a two-hour runtime was always going to be a difficult ask.

And so it turned out to be the case. However, a few years after the documentary release, the sister and brother team of Claire and Anthony Bueno have returned with this Stay Puft Marshmallow Man-sized tome of the same name, which checks in at over 550 pages and aims to give us access to every interview they undertook for their film.

From the stars themselves – Dan Ackroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson, although both Bill Murray and Rick Moranis are still notable by their absence – to some new interviews with Jason Reitman and Reginald VelJohnson, as well as those lesser-known names of the people that made it all look so good in 1984, this book is an absolute treasure trove of information.

Sure, some of the technical stuff regarding how they created certain effects comes across as a little dry, but the pure enthusiasm that they have for telling these stories really shines through and gives a feeling of being there and understanding what they did as a team to conceive this fan favourite that has had us all coming back for more for over 40 years.

There are some lively personal anecdotes from Clare Bueno about their adventures in filming the documentary littered about, and it is really impressive that considering the breadth of information covered here, it all feels so smoothly edited together and nothing appears out of place. Add to this the pictures from both personal photographic collections of those who worked on the original film and those from where the Buenos met some of their interviewees and got to see their own collections of items from the original production, and you’ve got one hell of a book.

Who ya gonna call? Hopefully, your local bookstore to see if they have this in stock!