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Rating: 3.5 stars

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All movies seen on 06/02/2016

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Goosebumps (2015)

Directed by Rob Letterman

Family | Horror | Fantasy

Most recently watched by sleestakk, sensoria, CaptainBigTime

Overview

After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.

Rated PG | Length 103 minutes

Actors

Jack Black | Dylan Minnette | Odeya Rush | Amy Ryan | Ryan Lee | Jillian Bell | Halston Sage | Ken Marino | Timothy Simons | Amanda Lund | Steven Krueger | Keith Arthur Bolden | Karan Soni | R.L. Stine | Caleb Emery | Gabriela Hernandez | Nate Andrade | Sheldon Brown | Melissa Brewer | Marshall Choka | Melissa Cowan | John Deifer | Everett Dixon | Brian Gabriel | Kevin Galbraith | Maryann Gorka | Clare Halstead | Devin Hampton | Rory Healy | Drew Lamkins | Vivian Kyle | Charlie Leach | Katie Lumpkin | Larry Mainland | Lucky Mangione | Justin Natic | Josh Phillips | Mickie Pollock | Steve Quinn | Ashleigh Jo Sizemore | Jeff Tenney | Jennifer Trudrung | Ashton Lee Woolen | Coleman Youmans | E. Roger Mitchell | Jason Davis | Ella Wahlestedt | Amber Thrower

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

I have a 7-year-old daughter. She’s amazing (full disclosure: i am biased). Super smart. Super funny. And a voracious consumer of the written word. I’ve slowly been introducing horror to her over the years with Edward Gorey, Roald Dahl (yes, his stories are often horrific), and even the first Harry Potter book with its unicorn blood, troll, ghosts, and two-faced professor. I’ve done the same with films. She’s seen Gremlins, Coraline, ParaNorman, and Monster House (among others). When I saw Goosebumps (the major motion picture, not the books, tv show, or the straight-to-video movies) show up on Netflix, I was pretty excited. I could watch something with the whole family while exposing my kid to more horror. It was win-win! So, here’s my review written from that perspective – a dad exposing his kid to horror. (the ideal outcome of which is that my girl becomes a horror fan and we have at least that to connect on during her inevitable embarrassed-by-her-parents teen years)

Read my full GOOSEBUMPS review here.

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