Goosebumps (2015) (2015)

September 21, 2024 10:11 AM

[Trailer] 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. - IMDb

78%/62% at RottenTomatoes.

posted by johnofjack (3 comments total)

No one's posted this? Huh. Okay.

I finally caught up with this last night (it just ... wasn't a priority for me? I wasn't the target audience for Goosebumps when it came out) and was surprised how much I liked it.

As a horror movie for grownups? Abject failure. But a) it's for kids, and b) it's mostly a comedy, and c) unlike most comedies I've seen, most of the jokes landed for me. My partner and I were just delighted by this. It was good fun.
posted by johnofjack at 10:13 AM on September 21

This was a surprisingly fun romp for my wife and I, who are both too old to have read the original books. Jack Black dials it back enough for it to avoid being The Jack Black Show, and the rest of the cast is allowed to stretch their comedic legs.
posted by mrphancy at 7:29 AM on September 22

Surprisingly good cinematography.
posted by zardoz at 3:48 AM on September 23