Goosebumps
Short description
After moving to the small town of Greendale, teenager Zach Cooper struggles to adjust until he befriends Hannah, the girl next door, and Champ, a classmate. Hannah's father turns out to be R.L. Stine, the author behind a bestselling series of horror books for young readers. Stine's secret is that the monsters he writes about are real, and he has spent years keeping them imprisoned inside his manuscripts. When the creatures are accidentally released, they spread through the town, and Stine, Zach, Hannah and Champ have to work together to force them back into the books where they belong.
Rob Letterman directed the film, which came after Gulliver's Travels and before Pokémon Detective Pikachu in his filmography. Darren Lemke wrote the screenplay, and Neal H. Moritz and Deborah Forte produced. Jack Black plays Stine along with several of the creatures, including the ventriloquist dummy Slappy, while Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, Amy Ryan and Jillian Bell appear in supporting roles.
The film was released in August 2015 and runs 103 minutes. Made for a budget of 58 million dollars, it took in about 159 million dollars worldwide. Ratings sit at 6.3 out of 10 on IMDb, based on over 100,000 votes, and 6.3 out of 10 on TMDB, while critics gave it 6.4 out of 10 across 164 reviews, placing it close to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- In the film, Robert Lawrence Stine types his books on a typewriter, and they come to life. At the end of the film, Zach has to finish typing so that the fictional story becomes reality. This is similar to the plot of one of Stine's books, "The Beast," where the main character, Zeke, owns a typewriter that materializes the stories typed on it into life.
- When Stine is chased by a giant praying mantis, the car's high beams constantly turn on and off.
- The children in the Ferris wheel cabins would inevitably have been injured when it broke loose and started rolling. Moreover, the sudden stop when the wheel finally got stuck in the trees would have thrown the children out of the cabins, as there were no seatbelts.
- Some scenes of the film were shot in Madison, Georgia. Chosen by vote as the "best small town in America," Madison is often used as a location for filming.
- The film is based on the eponymous series of young adult books in the "thriller/horror" genre.
- The pseudonym "Mr. Shivers," under which Robert Lawrence Stine himself hides, may have been taken from the title of M.D. Spencer's "Shiver" book series, which was inspired by the hugely popular "Goosebumps" series.
- During the end credits of the film, you can hear one of the garden gnomes laughing, while another shouts "Ahoy!" as the credits finish.
- Stine searches for a secluded spot in the school to write another book and discovers an empty auditorium where the school drama club is rehearsing a production of "The Shining" based on the novel by Stephen King. The set depicts a hotel room. The set includes references to jokes that have already been made in the film, comparing Stine to "Stephen King," as well as a nod to the writer and the room number.
- Hannah is a character from "The Ghost Next Door," one of the books in the "Goosebumps" series. The plot of the book revolves around Hannah's suspicions that their neighbor is a ghost, when in fact Hannah and her family are the ghosts.
- When the gnomes tie up Mr. Stine, played by Jack Black, and prepare to put him in the oven, this is a so-called "Easter egg." This scene mirrors an episode from the film "Gulliver's Travels," which also starred Jack Black.
- After the first seminar, Jack Black, in the role of R.L. Stine, runs into another teacher who greets him with "Good afternoon, Mr. Stine," to which Black replies, "Hello, Mr. Black." He then tells Zach that Mr. Black is the new drama club leader. This is a reference to the film "School of Rock" (2003), which also starred Jack Black. In "Goosebumps," Mr. Black is played by R.L. Stine himself.
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