IMDb plot summary: A teenager teams up with the daughter of young-adult horror author R.L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware.
Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, and Odeya Rush.
Goosebumps is a children's horror movie based on the books of the same name by R.L. Stine. In fact, Stine himself is a character in the movie, played by Jack Black. In this story, all Stine's terrifying creatures from his books are capable of coming to life, and the new kid in town accidentally sets them all free, so he, his friends, and Stine himself have to figure out how to lock them all back up. This is a fun creative concept for this story, although I'm sure it would have been much more interesting and effective for me if I had actually been a fan of the stories to begin with. I wasn't allowed to read them as a child, so I missed out on any nostalgia or Easter eggs that could have been hidden in this film. As a story in and of itself, it's actually pretty entertaining. The wide variety of horrifying creatures and the different ways they have to defeat each of them keeps the story moving quickly, and while the romance between the two leads doesn't really make a lot of sense, it does have a narratively satisfying ending. There aren't enough scary movies for kids these days, so it's probably worth checking out for younger viewers just as something different. And I bet adult fans of the books will get a kick out of it as well.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Goosebumps > The Gray Man
Goosebumps < Dark Passage
Goosebumps > Dan in Real Life
Goosebumps < Waking Ned Devine
Goosebumps > Logan
Goosebumps < There Will Be Blood
Goosebumps < Moonwalker
Goosebumps > The Horse's Mouth
Goosebumps < The Sound of Music
Goosebumps > Westfront 1918
Goosebumps < Men in Black
Goosebumps < Akira
Final spot: #1298 out of 3834, or 66%.
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