Regular Ghosts Are Bad Enough, but Nothing’s Worse Than Lazer Ghosts!

This hilarious faux-trailer for Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove is quite possibly the best thing I’ve seen all week.

God bless those folks at Twitch. They’re always turning up new gems, and this one just made my week: Lazer Ghosts 2: Return to Laser Cove. Here’s the synopsis:

In this spectacular sci-fi sequel, the emotionally-fractured Trance (Matthew Kennedy) must overcome the demons of his past and once again wage war on the evil spirit of Einstein and his army of laser-wielding ghosts. Together with the ghost of his dead comrade (Conor Sweeney) a rogue cop (Adam Brooks) and a sultry scientist (Meredith Sweeney), Trance must return to Laser Cove and make a final stand against the technologically-advanced forces of evil.

The folks behind this trailer do a bang-up job of capturing the look, sound, and feel of all of those crappy direct-to-video sci-fi/horror gems that you used to be able to find in the back corners of your neighborhood video shop. You know, the kind of stuff that companies like Golan-Globus and American International Pictures churned out in the 1980s.

The whole thing is just a ton of fun, and it’s pretty obvious that the filmmakers had a blast doing it. Be sure to watch out for all of the movie references (Ghostbusters, Terminator 2, Evil Dead) — with a lazer-centric twist, of course. And be sure to prepare yourself for the introduction of the Lazernomicon, replete with mindblowing special effects. ILM, eat your heart out.

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