Peter recoiled briefly before giving her to the count of three to release Dana.
The Keymaster finding the Gatekeeper at last. As Peter asks once more, Zuul (in Dana's body) begins panting desperately before announcing in a deep, demonic growling, voice that "There is no Dana, only Zuul!". Peter restrains her and insists on speaking with Dana which makes her visibly irritated. Peter asks to speak to Dana and Zuul playfully tells him “there is no Dana, there is only Zuul” then tries to kiss him. His persistence began wearing on Zuul and made her increasingly angry and frustrated. At first Zuul dismissed his efforts before resuming her wanton seduction but Peter repeatedly refused and restrained her to the bed instead. However, he did not reciprocate her lustful intentions and instead focused on trying to talk to "Dana". Zuul laid down on her bed, seducing Peter aggressively. Zuul introduced herself as "The Gatekeeper" and told Peter of their plans to prepare for the coming of Gozer, "The Destructor". Zuul roaring monstrously, demonstrating her demonic powers.
When Zuul asks once again if he is the Keymaster, he lies to gain entry to the apartment, telling Zuul he was a friend of his. Peter is taken aback and initially responds negatively when Zuul seductively asks if he is the Keymaster, this prompts Zuul to slam the dookr furiously in his face. Peter immediately noticed the radical change possession had caused in Dana, who was now wearing a very revealing red dress and was aggressively seducing him from the moment she opened the door. While lying in wait of The Keymaster, Zuul was visited by Peter Venkman, who had previously arranged a date with Dana. Dana now took on the identity of The Gatekeeper and proceeded to wait for Vinz Clortho, The Keymaster, another minion of Gozer who had possessed the body of Louis Tully, Dana's neighbor. While possessing Dana's body, Zuul was able to speak in Dana's voice but could not access her memories or knowledge. Peter meeting Zuul (in Dana Barrett's body).Ī horrified Dana screamed as her sofa slid into the kitchen where The Gatekeeper attacked and inhabited her. Before Dana could react, demon claws ripped through the sofa arms pinning her as the kitchen door swung open, revealing Zuul. She noticed a bright light seeping through the kitchen door frame and saw the door warping, as if being clawed at by a large beast. Later that night, Dana arrived at her apartment exhausted and laid back on her sofa after talking to her mother over the phone.
Some time after this incident, during a fierce thunderstorm, Zuul manifested itself physically by "hatching" out of one of two dog-like gargoyles sitting atop the Shandor Building in front of the Temple of Gozer. It laid in front of Gozer's Temple and growled the name "Zuul" at a terrified Dana, causing her to seek the Ghostbusters help. Zuul had originally sought out Dana as an apparition inside of her refrigerator. Zuul later attacked and possessed her inside of her apartment and began seeking out Vinz Clortho, the Keymaster who had likewise possessed Louis Tully's body - the union of these two demons would spark the necessary power to release Gozer into the mortal world and begin the apocalypse.ĭana attacked and then inhabited by Zuul. Zuul was worshipped by the Sumerians and Hittites in 6000 BC, along with Gozer before he and his followers were overthrown by the Babylonian goddess Tiamat and her followers and thus banished to another dimension.Ĭenturies later, Zuul rewakens from its statue-like hibernation after a spirit was seen in a strange temple within another dimension by Dana Barrett from her refrigerator at her 55 Central Park West apartment calling out for her. While possessing Callie Spengler in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, she was physically portrayed by Carrie Coon, who also played Proxima Midnight in Avengers: Infinity War, and voiced by Shohreh Aghdashloo, who also portrayed Sunny Quadri in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Whilst possessing Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters, she was portrayed by Sigourney Weaver, who also played The Director in The Cabin in the Woods. Zuul is known as the " Gatekeeper of Gozer" and is considered by many to be a female entity due to the fact it possessed a female victim and its role as the "Gatekeeper". Zuul the Gatekeeper, or better known as Zuul, is one of the two main minions of the powerful demonic deity known as Gozer and one of the secondary antagonists of the original Ghostbusters film, and she and her male counterpart Vinz Clortho are part of the demonic race of hellhounds known as Terror Dogs.