The first Ghostbusters trailer has just the right amount of ectoplasmic barf

We've got our first glimpse of the new Ghostbusters reboot, which takes place 30 years after the last film and gives us a whole new generation of weird scientists battling the ghosts of New York City. So far, it looks promising.

The first Ghostbusters movie became an iconic piece of 1980s pop culture for two simple reasons: the cast was a comedy dream team, and the concept was a new take on the old-school monster hunter story. Plus, it was a horror fantasy set in a city, which was also a relatively new idea in the early 1980s. That decade was a milestone in the popularization of urban (and suburban) paranormal horror, a genre-busting phenomenon that became its own genre. It's going to be hard for the updated Ghostbusters to reinvent a story that was beloved for being a reinvention.

But is it a sequel or a reboot? Here's what's weird. Director Paul Feig and writer Katie Dippold have repeatedly emphasized that this movie is not a sequel. It's a complete reboot, set in a universe where nobody in New York has seen a ghost before and the city was never destroyed by a giant marshmallow. Yet, the trailer absolutely presents it as a sequel by saying that "30 years ago four scientists saved New York." That seems to disagree with Feig and Dippold's interpretation of the movie as a reboot or reimagining and appears to sell it as a sequel. Or maybe the text is just a reference to the previous movie and not the plot of this movie? Either way, it's a confusing way to introduce the trailer if the creators want us to be clear on the fact this isn't a sequel.