Ghostbusters: Afterlife Trailer Review - 7 Ups & 4 Downs

4. Not Going Too Heavy On Effects

While there are some effects in there, there's nothing too overtly distracting, so we get more of a focus on the family - well, the kids anyway - with little flashes of the set-pieces that will have eaten up the CGI budget.

Crucially, the ghostly blast from the mineshaft and the proton cannon energy blasts are things we've seen before in Ghostbusters visual vocabulary. It's not like the marketing team have chosen to go bold and introduce entirely new things - which Feig's teasers did.

The ghostly presences are mostly kept off-screen in service of building atmospherics and it has the added benefit of not giving ammunition to anyone who loves to pick apart unfinished trailer effects work. Like me.