Goosebumps (film)

Goosebumps is a 2015 American fantasy computer-animated live-action horror comedy film directed by Rob Letterman, based on the best-selling children's book series with the same name by author, R.L. Stine. The film stars Jack Black as R.L. Stine, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Ryan Lee, Amy Ryan, Halston Sage, and Jillian Bell. The film was released in theaters on October 16, 2015 by Columbia Pictures. The film has received mostly positive reviews by critics, and was a hit at the box office. The Digital version was released in the United States on January 12, while the Blu-Ray and DVD was released on January 26, 2016.

Plot

After moving into a small town of Madison, Delaware, a teenage boy named Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) meets Hannah (Odeya Rush), his new neighbor. Hannah's father, R.L. Stine (Jack Black), who writes the Goosebumps stories, keeps all the ghosts and monsters in the series locked up in his books. When Zach unintentionally releases the ghouls and the monsters from the storybooks, Zach, Hannah, and Stine team up in order to put the monsters back where they came from, before it's too late.

Full Synopsis

Teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) and his mother Gale (Amy Ryan) move from New York to the small town of Madison, Delaware. His new neighbor is a girl named Hannah (Odeya Rush). They introduces themselves to each other, then her father, Mr. Shivers (Jack Black), tells Zach to stay away from them. That night, he watches a video of him and his dad playing baseball, Zach's dad died last year.

The next day, Gale gets a job as the vice-principal at the high school, Zach is a student there himself. The day skips to an after school assembly, where Gale tells everyone about tomorrow's fall dance. A boy named Champ (Ryan Lee) sits next to Zach and befriends him.

That night, Zach takes out the garbage, then Hannah says hi. They go to an abandoned amusement park, and climb to the top of the Ferris wheel. They talk to each other for a while, and Zach is happy that he found a friend, and he may like Hannah more than a friend. When they arrived home, Shivers warns Zach again to stay away from them.

On the very next night while Zach is doing his math homework, he sees Hannah and Shivers arguing in the window, followed by Hannah screaming. He rushes over to make sure she's okay, but Shivers tells Zach that there was no scream. Zach calls the police and Officer Stevens (Timothy Simons) and Brooks (Amanda Lund) arrive at Shivers' door. He explains that Hannah went back home with her mom in London, and the scream was from a horror movie that he was watching on his HDTV which has surround sound. After the police officers tell Zach the pitfalls of wasting the police's time, Gale reprimands Zach and tells him to go home. When Gale leaves to the chaperone dance, she asks her sister Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to watch Zach.

Later, Zach sees Hannah in the window. He tells Lorraine not to go in his room because he has a test to study for, but he's actually going to sneak in Shivers' house. He calls him pretending to be a cop and asks him to come to the station for further questioning. Zach meets up with Champ, who goes with him in Shivers' house. When they make it to the office upstairs, they see a bookshelf full of manuscripts, each one is titled a book in the Goosebumps book series. Champ grabs the one titled, The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena and Zach unlocks it. Hannah comes in the room, wondering why they're there, Zach explains the situation, and grabs the book by the cover. The real Abominable Snowman pops out of the pages, then leaves the house, knocking the other manuscripts to the ground, the one titled, Night of the Living Dummy is unlocked as well.

Zach, Hannah, and Champ follow the Abominable Snowman to a local ice rink, where it attacks them. Luckily, Shivers sucks it back into its book. On the way home, Zach realizes that Shivers is actually R.L. Stine, the author of Goosebumps. Stine tells Hannah to start packing, but Hannah doesn't want to move since she's grown attached to Zach. Stine explains to the kids what's going on. He says that when he was a kid, he had terrible allergies that kept him indoors. The other kids would make fun of him, so he created his own friends, monsters, demons, and ghouls. They all became real and unstable, so Stine wrote the Goosebumps series to lock them up and made a harmless copy to sell around the world making him a famous author. While picking up the books, one is missing. Sitting in the chair is Slappy the Dummy (voiced by Black) from Night of the Living Dummy, who was angry about being imprisoned. He burns his manuscript, and flees the house with the others. He opens the book The Haunted Car that releases the titular car and then releases the Lawn Gnomes from Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes. Zach, Hannah, R.L. Stine, and Champ battle them, but the gnomes come back together, so they escape from the gnomes, and began to search for Slappy.

Slappy begins rampaging through Madison with the Haunted Car and opens You're Plant Food! releasing the E. Ville Creeper Plants which destroys the telephone towers. Then he opens six more books and throws them in different locations. The Body Squeezers from Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part One and Part Two freeze Officer Stevens, Officer Brooks, and the entire Madison Police Department. Fifi the Vampire Poodle from Please Don't Feed the Vampire! attacks Lorraine. While looking for Slappy, Zach tells Stine that maybe they would capture the monsters if Stine wrote one story. Stine says he can only do it with his special typewriter, which is at the high school on display. While driving to the school, they get attacked by Brent Green (also voiced by Black), the Invisible Boy from My Best Friend is Invisible, and then The Giant Praying Mantis from A Shocker on Shock Street. Will Blake's werewolf form from The Werewolf of Fever Swamp follows them into the grocery store. Luckily, Lorraine hits the werewolf with her car where she's covered in poodle fur after escaping from Fifi. Zach tells her to get help. Lorraine goes to the police station where she gets frozen by the Body Squeezers.

R.L. Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Champ cut through a cemetery, where Hannah gets caught on a statue and Zach sets her free. They were about to kiss when Zach sees Hannah glowing ghostly blue in the moonlight, revealing her to be a ghost. Before he questions Hannah, the four get chased by the Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls. They barely escape and make it to the high school. Stine grabs the typewriter and goes to the auditorium to finish the story, while Zach, Hannah, and Champ warn everyone.

Outside on the football field, Slappy and the Lawn Gnomes release almost every monster in the "Goosebumps" series including Murder the Clown, Carly Beth Caldwell's Haunted Mask form, the Bog Monster, the Scarecrows, the Creeps, the Mummy of Prince Kho-Ru, Nila Rahmad, Madame Doom, the Pumpkinhead, and many more. They all have a bonfire of the burning books while Slappy tells them that the only way they'll be free forever, is if they kill R.L. Stine.

Zach warns the students about the monsters. At first, they don't believe him, and someone jokes about how monsters are taking over, everyone laughs, and then the person says the giant praying mantis is coming and they finally do believe Zach when the giant praying mantis takes the student close to the window. Zach tells his new friends to calm down and tells them that they have to barricade the doors to protect the school since he is in charge of helping protect the students. In the library, Zach battles the Bees from Why I'm Afraid of Bees and the rest of the monsters get in the school with the help of the Annihilator 3000s from Toy Terror: Batteries Included in the hallway. Taylor (Halston Sage) and Davidson (Steven Kruger) are attacked by the werewolf. Davidson abandons her, but then Champ saves Taylor from the werewolf by biting it with his silver teeth fillings. Taylor repays Champ by hugging and kissing him and becoming his new girlfriend, but the plant monster and the giant praying mantis are still attacking the school.

In the auditorium, Slappy breaks Stine's fingers, by slamming the typewriter on his fingers preventing Stine from finishing the story as the students run from the monsters. Hannah starts glowing again. Zach privately questions Stine about this and he tells Zach that Hannah is not real, but a Goosebumps character created after his wife left him, most likely Hannah from The Ghost Next Door. Zach, Hannah, R.L. Stine, and Champ leave Madison High on a school bus, and the monsters follow, now the students and staff are safe. The mantis knocks the bus over, and the Werewolf and the Abominable Snowman open the door, but Stine isn't driving, it's a tackle dummy. Stine and the kids are on a different bus.

They go to the abandoned amusement park, and Stine tells Zach what to write, but then Slappy finds them since the werewolf tracked their scent, and Slappy opens the book titled The Blob That Ate Everyone. Once the Blob came to life, it devoured the fun house, where they were hiding and Stine tells the kids to finish the story while he distracts the monsters. The Blob swallows Stine, but he's still alive as Slappy watches and begins tormenting Stine, saying that being trapped in the blob is like being locked inside Stine's manuscripts, then Slappy notices that Stine doesn't have the manuscript that's going to defeat them, and sees that Zach has it, Slappy then sends the monster army after them. Zach, Hannah, and Champ climb the Ferris Wheel avoiding the monster army below. Zach finished the story and put it in a leather bound manuscript. The mantis chews the bolts, causing the wheel to roll down the hill and crash, luckily, they survive. As Zach was about to open the book, he realized that if he did, Hannah will be sucked in too. Hannah tells Zach that she knew she wasn't real and she opens the book herself. All of the monsters are then sucked back to the book one by one. When the Blob gets sucked in the book, it spits R.L. Stine out. Slappy then begins to strangle Stine only for him to kick Slappy into the vortex. Slappy vanishes saying "See you in your dreams!". As Zach holds onto Hannah, she accepts her fate. Zach and Hannah kiss goodbye, then she lets go of him. Hannah was sucked in the book as well, and Champ closes the book.

Sometime later, Madison High School is repaired and reopens and Stine gets a job as the new English teacher as well as him dating Lorraine. Zach and Champ have Stine's class the last period of the day and he gives them his first lesson. After class, Zach walks with Stine in the hallway. The drama teacher Mr. Black (the REAL R.L. Stine) says hi to Stine and he says hi back. Zach asks Stine if he misses Hannah. Then Hannah appears in the hallway. Stine told Zach that he wrote her back into existence with another book. He sets her book on fire and puts it in the trash. Zach and Hannah kiss and leave school holding hands. Stine just stares at them and smiles. A few minutes later, Stine grabs his suitcase and is about to leave school himself, but then sees the typewriter typing "The Invisible Boy's Revenge". It turned out that Brent Green had evaded capture as he quotes "You forgot about me!". Stine screams in horror as Brent's hand print appears on the cabinet glass while Brent maniacally laughs.

Alternate Opening

The film was originally going to start this way:

Two movers (Kumail Nanjiani and Luka Jones) are packing a house, they put the boxes in the moving truck. One of them accidentally drops a box. The Goosebumps manuscripts appear inside, and the Night of the Living Dummy manuscript's lock breaks. As they drive, one of the movers begin talking about how a lady was flirting with him, then they hear a box fall over. The two movers check it out, and they see the books lying on the ground. Slappy the Dummy reveals himself, and one of the movers refer to him as a "Ventriloquist Dummy". Slappy gets offended and replies to them saying, "Who you calling Dummy? Dummy!" the two movers scream in terror as the trucks back door shuts on them.

A possible reason why this opening was cut may be because this beginning was used in Goosebumps: The Game.

Alternate Ending

The film was originally going to end this way:

Zach and R.L. Stine are walking down the hall. Zach asks Stine if he misses Hannah, which he says yes. Then a girl called Anna (also Odeya Rush) asks Zach if he could help her, since is her first day at school. Zach thinks is a creation of Stine, and he moves the girl next to the window, to see if she is also a ghost. Anna walks away, thinking that Zach is crazy. Stine explains that he didn't write anything, and that he should go with her. Zach runs next to Anna and tells her it was just his way to say hi. Zach waves at Stine and gives a tour to Anna.

Stine walks the other way to see his typewriter. Then he sees the typewriter typing "Slappy's Revenge." Stine screams in horror as Slappy's reflection appears and says "Hello, Papa."

In this last scene, Slappy was replaced by The Invisible Boy because that made more sense.

They deleted this ending because everyone in the test audience hated it, according to R.L. Stine.

Cast

• Jack Black as R.L. Stine
  • Jack Black as the voices of Slappy the Dummy and Brent Green
• Dylan Minnette as Zach Cooper
• Odeya Rush as Hannah Stine
• Avery L. Jones as Slappy the Dummy (puppeteer and voices him in the, "All About Slappy" special feature)
• Amy Ryan as Gale Cooper
• Ryan Lee as Champ
• Ken Marino as Coach Carr
• Jillian Bell as Lorraine Conyers
• Halston Sage as Taylor
• Steven Krueger as Davidson
• Timothy Simons as Officer Stevens
• Amanda Lund as Officer Brooks
• R.L. Stine as Mr. Black (credited as Hallway Player)
• Nate Andrade as Bog Monster (credited as Monster #1)
• Melissa Brewer as Clarissa (credited as Monster #2)
• Sheldon Brown as the Muglani (credited as Monster #3)
• Marshall Choka as Murder the Clown (credited as Monster #4)
• Melissa Cowan as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #5)
• John Deifer as Professor Shock (credited as Monster #6)
• Everett Dixon as Body Squeezer (credited as Monster #7)
• Brian Gabriel as Mummy of Prince Khor-Ru (credited as Monster #8)
• Kevin Galbraith as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #9)
• Maryann Gorka as Countess Yvonne (credited as Monster #10)
• Clare Halstead as Carly Beth Caldwell wearing the Haunted Mask (credited as Monster #11)
• Devin Hampton as Body Squeezer (credited as Monster #12)
• Rory Healy as Count Nightwing (credited as Monster #13)
• Vivian Kyle as Snake Lady (credited as Monster #14)
• Drew Lamkins as The Lord High Executioner (credited as Monster #15)
• Charlie Leach as Body Squeezer (credited as Monster #16)
• Katie Lumpkin as Brenda's Creep Form (credited as Monster #17)
• Larry Mainland as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #18)
• Lucky Mangione as Ricky Beamer's Creep Form (credited as Monster #19)
• Justin Natic as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #20)
• Josh Phillips as Cronby (credited as Monster #21)
• Mickie Pollock as Madame Doom (credited as Monster #22)
• Steve Quinn as Captain Long Ben One-Leg (credited as Monster #23)
• Ashley Jo Sizemore as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #24)
• Jeff Tenney as Body Squeezer (credited as Monster #25)
• Jennifer Trudrung as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #26)
• Ashton Lee Wolden as Wart's Creep form (credited as Monster #27)
• Coleman Youmans as Graveyard Ghoul (credited as Monster #28)
• John Bernecker as Will Blake (uncredited)
• John Herndon as Scarecrow (uncredited)
• Luka Jones as Mover #2 (alternate opening)
• E. Roger Mitchell as Mayor of Madison (uncredited)
• Kumail Nanjiani as Mover #1 (alternate opening)
• Benjamin Papac as Seth (uncredited)
• Nick Stanner as a Pumpkinhead (uncredited)

Crew

• Music by Danny Elfman
• Costume designer: Judianna Makovsky
• Editor: Jim May
• Production Designer: Sean Haworth
• Director of Photography: Javier Aguirresarobe
• Executive Producers: Tania Landau, Bill Bannerman, Ben Waisbren, Bruce Berman, Greg Basser
• Based on the Goosebumps book series written by R.L. Stine
• Story by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski
• Screenplay by Darren Lemke
• Produced by Deborah Forte, Neal H. Moritz
• Directed by Rob Letterman

Monsters and Villains

The following monsters and villains appear in this film:

• Slappy the Dummy from the Night of the Living Dummy Saga
• Carly Beth wearing the Haunted Mask from The Haunted Mask
• Hannah Fairchild from The Ghost Next Door
• The Abominable Snowman from The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
• Will Blake in his Werewolf form from The Werewolf of Fever Swamp (Referred to as his book title in the movie.)
• The Lawn Gnomes from Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
• A Giant Praying Mantis from A Shocker on Shock Street
• Madame Doom from Help! We Have Strange Powers!
• Captain Long Ben One-Leg from Creep from the Deep
• The Scarecrows from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
• The Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls (Reffered to simply as, "Ghouls" in the film, however, they are referred to as, "Graveyard Ghouls" in Night of Scares)
• The Creeps (Ricky Beamer, Wart, and Brenda) from Calling All Creeps!
• Count Nightwing (referred to as The Vampire) from Vampire Breath
• The Swamp Monster from How to Kill a Monster (referred to as the Bog Monster in the movie and accidentally identified as a Mud Monster from You Can't Scare Me! in the Goosebumps Activity book Slappy's Revenge and the Monster Survival Guide)
• The Lord High Executioner from A Night in Terror Tower
• The Mummy of Prince Khor-Ru (referred to as The Mummy) and Nila Rahmad from Return of the Mummy
• Pukrah the Great from The Mummy Walks
• A Pumpkinhead from Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns
• Murder the Clown from A Nightmare on Clown Street
• Professor Shock from The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock
• A Muglani Witch Doctor and Cronby the Troll from Deep in the Jungle of Doom
• The Body Squeezers from Invasion of the Body Squeezers: Part One and Part Two (referred to as the Bug-Eyed Aliens in the movie)
• The Snake Lady from Escape from the Carnival of Horrors
• Clarissa (referred to as The Witch) from Be Careful What You Wish For...
• Fifi the Vampire Poodle and Countess Yvonne (referred to as The Vampire Bride) from Please Don't Feed the Vampire!
• Brent Green from My Best Friend Is Invisible (referred to as the Invisible Boy in the movie)
• E. Ville Creeper Plants from You're Plant Food! (referred to as the Man Eating Plants)
• The Haunted Car from the book of the same name
• The Annihilator 3000s from Toy Terror: Batteries Included
• The Blob from The Blob That Ate Everyone (Reffered to as the name of it's book)
• The Bees from Why I'm Afraid of Bees
• The Cuckoo Clock from The Cuckoo Clock of Doom (seen as a decoration in Stine's basement)
• The Shrunken Head of Baladora from How I Got My Shrunken Head (two of them appeared on the Muglani's staff)

  

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Scrapped Monsters

These monsters were originally going to appear in the film as shown in a second draft of the film, but were cut out:

• Monster Blood from the book of the same name  (Though the title is mentioned, and replaced by The Blob)
• Mr. Wood from Night of the Living Dummy (Though he appeared in the game)
• Sabre from Welcome to Camp Nightmare (Though the title is seen on Stine's bookshelf)
• Cuddles the Hamster from Monster Blood II (Appears in the second draft of the film)
• The Masked Mutant from Attack of the Mutant (Though the title is seen on Stine's bookshelf)
• Ghosts from Ghost Camp (They do appear in the movie novel)
• Bell Valley Students from The Haunted School.
• The Gargoyle from I'm Telling! (It does appear in the movie novel)
• A Centipede Tattoo from Attack of the Tattoo. (Photo of the centipede appeared in the Goosebumps Activity Book)
• The Vampire Bats from Trapped in Bat Wing Hall (Though they are just mentioned by Stine at a point in the film)
• The Knight in Screaming Armor from the book of the same name (In a second draft of the film)
• The Monster Police from Monster Blood for Breakfast (In a second draft of the film)
• The Beasts from The Beast from the East (In a second draft of the film)
• Splatters from Earth Geeks Must Go! (In a second draft of the film)
• Giant Spiders from Night of the Giant Everything (In a second draft of the film)
• Andrew Craw from The Headless Ghost (In a second draft of the film)
• Arcturian Alien from Zapped in Space (In a second draft of the film)
• The Sea Monster from Deep Trouble (In a second draft of the film. Though the title is seen on Stine's bookshelf, its's Seen in concept art, proving that it was going to appear in the film, but it was replaced by E. Ville Creeper Plants)
• Dr. Brewer's Clone from Stay Out of the Basement (Though he appeared in the game and the title appeared on the book shelf)
• Jared and David from Calling All Creeps (The other three appear)
• In one concept art, there were going to be three more Werewolves:
  • Hannah from Werewolf Skin (Her name was going to be changed to Anna so she couldn't be confused with Hannah Fairchild)
  • Aaron Freidus from The Werewolf in the Living Room.
  • Monroe Sternom from How I Met My Monster.

Music

Score of the film performed by Danny Elfman.

See Goosebumps Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for a complete song listing.

Songs:

• "Racketeer" by The Blue Van
• "Headlights" by OPIEN
• "Get Ugly" by Jason Dervio
• "Everybody have Fun Tonight" by Ryan Perez - Daple
• "Better Than the Rest" by Shock Diamonds
• "Heads Will Roll" (A-TRAK remix) by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• "Break the Rules" by Charli XCX (Trailer only)
• "Bumps Gonna Goose Yeah!" by Jack Black (Nerdiest Video only)

Box Office

As of March 22, 2016, the film has grossed $80.1 million in North America, and $76.3 million in other countries, for a worldwide total of $156.4 million, against a budget of $58 million, While in theaters, it was the #1 movie in America in October 2015, and was The fourth film to reach the top of the box office in the fall of 2015, the other three being War Room, The Perfect Guy, and Hotel Transylvania 2, Mexico has $7.1 million. Australia at $6.3 million, it was the #1 movie in the United Kingdom and Ireland at $4.0 million and is currantly at $6 million, and #2 movie in Russia at $1.27 behind In the Heart of the Sea, futhermore, it opened in France at $1 million, making the film a box office success.

Videos

GOOSEBUMPS - Official Trailer (HD)

Trivia

• The movie was originally going to be released on August 7, 2015, but was pushed back to April 15, 2016, then once more to October 16, 2015, most likely to fit the Halloween spirit, or make it close to the 20th anniversary of the TV adaptation of The Haunted Mask.
• Tim Burton was originally going to produce the film in 1998 and was attached to it. However, the project fell through.
• The movie was first advertise on the back of the books when Zombie Halloween was published.
• Stine fixes the gap in his fence to keep Zach out; however, he would have been able to hear Stine hammering on the fence, even with his headphones on.
• The subtitles stop referring to Stine as "Shivers" after Zach makes Stine snap at him insulting his books.
• Some of the manuscripts weren't burned; Slappy just threw them out of The Haunted Car.
• This movie marks the first theatrical debut of several characters in the series:
  • The Giant Praying Mantises never appeared in the television version of A Shocker on Shock Street.
  • The books starring the Abominable Snowman, The Body Squeezers, The Graveyard Ghouls, Pukrah the Great, The Haunted Car, the Snake Lady, the Muglani and Cronby the Troll, Professor Shock, Fifi the Vampire Poodle, Countess Yvonne, The Annihilator 3000, the E. Ville Creeper Plants and The Bees, were never made into episodes. Most of those monsters all came in Give Yourself Goosebumps, while the rest, excluding the Abominable Snowman and Bees, were in Goosebumps Series 2000.
  • Captain Long Ben One-Leg, Madame Doom, and Murder the Clown never appeared on TV considering the television series was made long before their releases, because their books were from Goosebumps HorrorLand and Goosebumps Most Wanted.
• The titles The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The Ghost Next Door, Night of the Living Dummy, The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, Monster Blood, Go Eat Worms!, and Little Shop of Hamsters are mentioned.
• You might say that The Werewolf of Fever Swamp and The Blob That Ate Everyone are mentioned titles as well, but Stine is referring to Will Blake and The Blob as the names of their titles.
• The titles Chicken Chicken, The Ghost Next Door, Under the Magician's Spell, Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls, The Mummy Walks, Weirdo Halloween, Zombie School, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, Night of the Living Dummy, The Haunted Car, Creature Teacher, The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, You Can't Scare Me!, Beware of the Purple Peanut Butter, Deep Trouble, Return of the Mummy, Planet of the Lawn Gnomes, Revenge of the Living Dummy, Escape from Camp Run-For-Your-Life, Checkout Time at the Dead-End Hotel, Say Cheese and Die!, Attack of the Mutant, Beware, the Snowman, Attack of the Beastly Babysitter, Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes, Let's Get Invisible, Toy Terror: Batteries Included, Escape from the Carnival of Horrors, The Horror at Camp Jellyjam, Stay Out of the Basement, The Blob That Ate Everyone and Monster Blood for Breakfast! are seen in the bookshelf.
• Some monsters have new appearances:
  • Slappy the Dummy has brown eyes instead of blue.
  • Hannah Fairchild is sixteen instead of twelve. She also had long, dark hair instead of short, brown hair, (though in the book she thought about growing it out which may explain why she has long hair in the movie) and she wears dark colors instead of bright neon colors.
  • Will Blake is seventeen instead of twelve. Also, in his werewolf form he was more "Wolf-like" than human-like.
  • The Lawn Gnomes are "cute" instead of ugly.
  • The Abominable Snowman has white fur instead of brown.
  • The Body Squeezers wear blue space suits and have freeze ray guns.
  • The Mantis is a real insect instead of a robot and is fifty feet tall.
  • The Haunted Car is a black 1969 Lincoln Continental Mark III instead of a blue Sports Corvette.
  • Captain Long Ben One-Leg doesn't have a skeletal appearance in the film.
  • The Cuckoo Clock's bird is a black crow, instead of a cuckoo bird.
  • The Blob is more of a liquid, similar to the 1958 film, "The Blob".
  • Clarissa looks younger in the film, and she and Madame Doom are two different characters.
  • The Swamp Monster looks like a monster made out of moss.
  • The Annihilator 3000 are smaller in the film.
  • Fifi the Vampire Poodle has white fur instead of black fur, like on her book's Classic Goosebumps cover.
  • Murder the Clown has white makeup instead of red.
  • TheHaunted Mask did not had a pointy chin or big ears.
• The movie plot is similar to the plot of The Blob That Ate Everyone, in that monsters created by a writer with a magic typewriter come to life. Incidentally, The Blob serves as Slappy's secret weapon.
• The oldest monster to appear in the film is Slappy, with his book published in May 1993, and the most recent monster to appear in the film is Murder the Clown, with his book published in February 2015.
• Goosebumps: The Game and the mobile title Night of Scares were released as a tie in to the film. As well as a Goosebumps Keyboard app available on Google Play.
• The scene where Will Blake is about to attack Taylor is a reference to the 2004's film Van Helsing, where the werewolf is about to attack Princess Anna.
• References to Stephen King and The Shining are made in the movie. There are also references to Gollum, a character from The Lord of the Rings, References to Dracula and Phantom of the Opera (Posters seen in the school's auditorium), 2004's Van Helsing, Saturday Night Live (SNL), Frosty the Snowman, the classic 1950's Blob movie, and Steve McQueen.
• Although the movie is a family film, it has hidden inappropriate material, for example, Gale mentions Twerking, which is dancing sexually (she had no clue what she was talking about and says she meant to say tweeting) Zach says ,"What the Hell man!" When Champ goes down in the basement and scares him, and the angel statue that grabs Hannah, if you look closely, you can see the angel statues breasts, and Champ suggests him and Zach go to the semi formal together.
• Slappy the Dummy, the Invisible Boy (both voiced by Jack Black), Hannah Fairchild, the Lawn Gnomes, a Scarecrow and the Annihilators 3000 are the only monsters who talk in the movie. The person who voiced the Annihilators 3000 remains unknown. The other monsters only growl, shriek, and moan (although some of them spoke in the books). Murder the Clown laughs, but doesn't speak.
• Hannah Fairchild, Carly Beth Caldwell (under theHaunted Mask's control) and Ricky Beamer (in his Creep form) are the only protagonists of the book series to appear in the movie.
• The reason why The Blob is more liquid-like is because it was supposed to be the Monster Blood. But instead of changing the appearance of the monster, they just changed the color from green to pink.
• This is the first Goosebumps story with a love story in it.
• A video reveals that there are over 50 references in the film of other action, horror and comedy movies.
  • The same video reveals that they had stopped recording because Dylan Minnette (Zach), twisted his ankle when they were recording the scene of jumping the fence.
• Although Stine was in the Police Station during the moment where the monster escapes, if you look closely, you can see Stine's car parked at one side of the house during the scene where the Abominable Snowman escapes.
• The second Movie Poster shows the main characters with a giant book, with the hands of Slappy, Will Blake, the Pumpkinhead, a Lawn Gnome, the Giant Praying Mantis, the Abominable Snowman and the Invisible Boy. This poster was only for Latin America.
• The end credits feature many of the different Goosebumps covers including Welcome to Dead House, Ghost Beach, Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes, A Shocker on Shock Street, Lost in Stinkeye Swamp, The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight, The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, Attack of the Jack O'Lanterns, The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena and Night of the Living Dummy. The Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls and the skeleton cook on the cover of Say Cheese and Die! are seen during Welcome to Dead House's animation, and during A Shocker on Shock Street's animation, there's a street sign that says, "The Reality Police Department" referencing the villains from Don't Go to Sleep!
• It appears that the film was originally going to be a PG-13 film, because in the second draft there are some cursing words and extreme horror scenes. Still, they kept the comedy escence.
• In the second draft it says there was a misspelling in the book The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, and it should say "The Abominable Snow-Woman of Pasadena."
• There was originally going to be more werewolves, including Hannah from Werewolf Skin, Aaron Freidus from The Werewolf in the Living Room and Monroe Sternom from How I Met My Monster. Hannah's name was going to be change to Anna to not be confused with Hannah Fairchild. (It's unknown why they were scrapped from the movie and they only used Will Blake).
• A sequel has been planned by Sony, and has been speculated to be released between 2017-2019.
• The most seen monsters in the film are Slappy the Dummy, Will Blake, the Lawn Gnomes, the Giant Praying Mantis, and The Abominable Snowman.
• Many books were made as tie ins to the film like The Goosebumps Movie Novel, Night of the Living Monsters, Goosebumps Activity book, Slappy's Revenge, and the Monster Survival Guide. Stine mentions the title, 'Slappy's Revenge' at one point in the movie.
• Goosebumps the Board Game was released for the film, and included six playable monsters.
• A Goosebumps Original Motion Picture Soundtrack was released for the film, with music by Danny Elfman, who did the score for the film.
• Slappy is R.L. Stine's alter ego in the film, he represents Stine's evil side of him, and Slappy has a similar resemblance to Stine, when their reflections touched in the fun house mirror, they almost looked the same, only difference is that Stine wears glasses and a black suit, and Slappy doesn't wear glasses and wears a black tux with a red bow tie and a red carnation.

Blu-Ray/DVD

Blu Ray DVD

The movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray January 26, 2016. The digital download was released on January 12, 2016. The movie has a total of nine special features on the blu-ray version:

1. Beginner's guide to surviving a Goosebumps creature- in this special feature, Zach and Champ show us how to survive the following monsters: Lawn Gnomes, The Werewolf, The Haunted Car, Abominable Snowman, and The Giant Praying Mantises.
2. Strange things are happening... on set- During the filming of Goosebumps, Dylan Minnette recorded a video diary, and he shows us the strange videos in this feature.
3. Alternate opening- The film's original start... starring Slappy.
4. Alternate ending- On R.L. Stine's website, he said that this ending was cut because everyone hated it, so they changed it.
5. Deleted scenes- scenes that were cut out. Including R.L. Stine going to the police station, and more.
6. Blooper reel- This feature shows all of the hilarious mistakes that the cast and crew made during filming.
7. Casting gallery- This feature shows screen testing from Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, and Ryan Lee.
8. All about Slappy- Slappy the Dummy tells us how the crew made him for the film, R.L. Stine's thoughts on him, as well as his books, and how much Slappy loved playing in the film.
9. Creaturefield!- Two of the FX creators for the monsters, Steve Prounty and Fiona Cush, show us how to make ourselves into our favorite monster's, they show us how to make fake blood, and a realistic Mummy mask.

• The DVD version only has the first two special features.
• The Digital version has an extra special feature.
• The movies previews that play before the film starts, plays the trailers to The Goldberg's Season 2, Pixels, Hotel Transylvania 2, The 5th Wave, The Angry Birds Movie, and Open Season: Scared Silly.
• Goosebumps was the #1 most purchased blu-ray on the week of January 26th-February 2nd.
• The Invisible Boy may be included on the cover art of the packaging, because Champ's tie is held up
• On the Blu-Ray version, excluding the rental, before the movie's main menu shows up, Slappy gives the viewers a special message.
• Goosebumps is also released in a DVD 3-pack, with Zathura and Jumanji.

Sequel

On September 2, 2015, it was reported a sequel was in the planning stages, and on April 25, 2016, it was confirmed that Rob Letterman and Darren Lemke will return to direct and write the film.

Gallery

Jack Black as R.L. Stine

A majority of Goosebumps monsters.

Slappy the Dummy

The Goosebumps monsters at the 2014 San Diego Comi-Con.

The Bog Monster, the Graveyard Ghouls, the Executioner, Murder the Clown, the Muglani, the Mummy, Captain Ben, Professor Shock and Count Nightwing

Murder the Clown, the Executioner and Professor Shock attack Jack Black

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Murder the Clown, the Muglani and the Mummy at Comi-Con

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Jack Black as R.L. Stine with the Graveyard Ghouls

Slappy the Dummy

A Pumpkinhead.

Murder the Clown

Madame Doom

The Mummy

Captain Long Ben One-Leg

A Scarecrow

The Lord High Executioner

Count Nightwing

A Graveyard Ghoul.

The cast of Goosebumps with several of the monsters from the books.

Cronby

Professor Shock

The Bog Monster

The Haunted Mask

Clarissa the Witch

The Mummy

The Pumpkinhead

A Graveyard Ghoul

Snake Lady

Creep

A Graveyard Ghoul

A Graveyard Ghoul

The Mummy of Prince Khor-Ru

The Bog Monster

Slappy The Dummy

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A Pumpkinhead

The Haunted Mask

Murder The Clown

Cronby The Troll

A Scarecrow

Captain Ben One-Leg

Professor Shock

Count Nightwing

The monsters of the film are unleashed

Abominable Snowman

Will Blake

The Lawn Gnomes

Jack Black with the Bug-Eyed Alien, Count Nightwing and Professor Shock

Slappy with the monsters

E. Ville Creeper Plants

The Bees

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Goosebumps movie novel

Goosebumps movie: Slappy's Revenge

Goosebumps movie: Night of the Living Monsters

R.L. Stine and Hannah

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R.L. Stine

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R.L. Stine VS. Slappy

R.L. Stine with Hannah

R.L. Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Champ

Jack Black during filming

Brent Green

Goosebumps movie: Monster survival guide

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Slappy, Haunted Mask, Cronby, Count Nightwing, Murder the Clown, and a Creep

Goosebumps Movie Logo

The Giant Praying Mantis

The Blob Monster consuming a Funhouse.

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Fifi

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The Bog Monster, Pumpkinhead, Murder The Clown, a scarecrow, The Snake Lady, and Graveyard Ghouls

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Zach and Hannah as a ghost

After them ghouls

The Haunted Mask

Cue the credits!

Here we come kitties, we monsters are on your tail.

Oh No, You Monsters Aren't Getting In

Run For Your Lives

Thought you could barricade us out scaredy babies ?

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Hannah Fairchild

Concept Art

External links

• Goosebumps (2015 film) at Internet Movie Database