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Goosebumps (2015)

Directed by Rob Letterman

Fantasy | Horror | Adventure

Most recently watched by archstanton43, 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

Viewing History (seen 2 times)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
10/31/2021TVBlu-rayOwned7 stars
11/03/2015Movie ScreenDigitalTheater7.5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

Wish I would have seen this during October. Rather fun movie with a nice turn by Jack Black. I like the idea of RL Stine’s monsters coming to life with Slappy the dummy as his primary nemesis. A few nitpicks aside this is an ideal non-Halloween Halloween movie. It’s like a Cabin in the Woods family film a la “which monster is going to get them and how do they stop them all.” Nice teen actors too. I’d definitely watch this again.

Spoilers for my nitpicks:

If Stine + daughter are constantly moving from place to place bc of his creatures getting loose, why is his typewriter in the high school in that small town??? And even if, I’m guessing, this was his original HS, why would he give this “magical” machine to the high school???

The abandoned carnival on the hill in the forest is cool as fuck but where does the electricity come from to power it up completely??? And who’s paying for that???

If it’s so damn easy to unlock the original books to unleash the monsters, WHY THE FUCK WOULD STINE KEEP THE KEY RIGHT NEXT TO THE BOOKS.

If Stine is a recluse and always moving from place to place how do people in this town know him and how does his daughter know about the carnival?

**BIG SPOILER**

If his daughter knows she’s not real why does Stine even remotely believe that he’s keeping the truth from her esp. when she states she figured it out after celebrating the same “sweet sixteen” birthday over and over??? Then he brings her “back to life” yet she cannot age?? That’s fucked up.

peace out

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