Ghostbusters: Afterlife
“Discover the past. Save the future.”
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
How Ghostbusters: Afterlife compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of Ghostbusters, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #2 of 4
- Rank in the series by rating
- 32 years
- Wait since the previous film
- 24%
- Share of the series audience
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) ranks 2nd of the 4 rated films in the Ghostbusters series, at 7.3/10 on TMDB against a series average of 6.9/10.
It arrived 32 years after Ghostbusters II (1989), the longest wait between any two films in the Ghostbusters series.
Its 5,437 TMDB ratings are 24% of the 23,063 cast across the series.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for Ghostbusters, comparing all 4 released films in the series. Last recalculated November 2026.
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is film 3 of 4. See the complete watch order.