Goosebumps (2015)

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.

Director:

Rob Letterman

Writers:

Darren Lemke (screenplay by), Scott Alexander (story by)

Stars:

Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush

4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Jack Black	...	Stine
Dylan Minnette	...	Zach
Odeya Rush	...	Hannah
Ryan Lee	...	Champ
Amy Ryan	...	Gale
Jillian Bell	...	Lorraine
Halston Sage	...	Taylor
Steven Krueger	...	Davidson
Keith Arthur Bolden	...	Principal Garrison
Amanda Lund	...	Officer Brooks
Timothy Simons	...	Officer Stevens
Ken Marino	...	Coach Carr
Karan Soni	...	Mr. Rooney
R.L. Stine	...	Hallway Player
Caleb Emery	...	Dumb Jock

Storyline

First this is all about monsters and any kind of supernatural .After going to a new small town,the teenager boy Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange... he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it's suddenly up to Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Zach's friend Champ (Ryan Lee) they all do their best to back all of the monsters in the book.

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Plot Keywords:

monster | ferris wheel | abandoned amusement park | ventriloquist dummy | based on book | 

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Taglines:

The stories are alive

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Genres:

Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for scary and intense creature action and images, and for some rude humor

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

USA Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

16 October 2015 (USA)

Also Known As:

Goosebumps

Filming Locations:

Conyers, Georgia, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$58,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$23,618,556, 16 October 2015, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$80,080,379

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$156,246,468

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation,Expedition Films,LStar Capital

Technical Specs

Runtime:

103 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Atmos Dolby Digital Datasat Auro 11.1 Dolby Surround 7.1 SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.39 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Was originally going to be a film by DreamWorks Pictures in the 90's when they were starting and had their interactive studio distribute two Goosebumps PC games. But lost the rights to Sony Pictures when production failed in 1998.

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Goofs

When Zach first enters Stine's Basement he is scared by a cuckoo. The cuckoo cuckoos four times but the hands on the clock show 2 o'clock. In R. L. Stine's 'The Cuckoo Clock of Doom', main character Michael Webster travels back in time and messes up the space-time continuum.

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Quotes

Zach Cooper: So, how did you...
Hannah: The cellar doors. I disconnected the alarm months ago.
Zach Cooper: Jeez... and I thought my house was a prison.
Hannah: You should try being homeschooled.

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Crazy Credits

One of the lawn gnomes laughing is heard in the middle of the end credits and another says "Woo-Hoo" right when the credits are finished.

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Alternate Versions

The theatrical version of the film is missing one scene of violence: a shot of the lawn gnomes throwing a knife in the kitchen. This scene is present on the Blu-ray release of the film, and may be the scene that the BBFC required cut.

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Connections

Featured in Film '72: Episode #45.3 (2016)

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Soundtracks

Headlights
Written by Alexander Schuster and Nikolaus Stoessl
Performed by Opien
Courtesy of Crucial Music Corporation

User Reviews

Mildly Entertaining Film

Goosebumps (2015)

*** (out of 4)

Zach (Dylan Minnette) moves to a new town with his mother and soon meets his neighbor Hannah (Odeya Rush). The two hit it off but she's being overly protected by her father (Jack Black) and soon Zach finds out why.

I guess I should admit that I've never read any of the Goosebump stories and I haven't watched any of the television episodes. I was someone familiar with some of the monsters due to hearing about them as my girlfriend talked about them. I still went into this movie with high expectations and for the most part I found GOOSEBUMPS to be entertaining in its own way. The film is certainly flawed and it could have been much better but there are enough good things to make it worth watching.

What really helps the film is the fact that Rush, Black and Minnette are so good in their roles as is Ryan Lee who plays the nerd. I thought all four of them did a great job with their roles and I thought they certainly helped keep the film moving and entertaining. The monsters themselves were also fun for what they were. The CGI effects were of good quality as you'd expect and I thought the film was creative in the way that it got all of them on the screen.

I did have some issues with the film including the fact that I thought most of the humor didn't work overly well. I also thought the film dragged a bit too much and I really didn't think there was any suspense or tension. Again, going off what I had heard, apparently the show and books were meant to scare people but none of that carried over to this film version.