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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 DVD was released in the United States on January 12, while the Blu-Ray was released on January 26, 2016.

Plot

After moving into a small town of Greenland, Maryland, 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 tomorrows 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's 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 chaperon the dance, she asks her sister Lorraine (Jillian Bell) to watch Zach.

Later Zach sees Hannah in the window, he tells Lorraine that he's going to bed, 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. a 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, 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 troughs 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 more book, 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 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 barley 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. 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, but they finally do when the giant praying mantis takes the student closet to the window. Zach tells them that they have to barricade the school. 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 becoming his new girlfriend.

In the auditorium, Slappy breaks Stine's 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, 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 laughs. 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 as 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, he spits R.L. Stine out. Slappy then begins to strangle Stine only for Stine to kick Slappy into the vortex. Slappy vanishes saying "See you in your dreams!" As Zach holds on to Hannah, she accepts her fate. Zach and Hannah kiss, then she lets go of him. Hannah was sucked in the book as well, and Champ closes the book.

Some time later, Madison High School 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.

Cast

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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:

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[1]:

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.

Trivia

DVD

Blu Ray copy

Blu Ray DVD

The movie's DVD and Blu-ray release date was released on 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, Will Blake, 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 Cursh, 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.
  • On the Blu-Ray version, excluding the rental, before the movie's main menu shows up, Slappy gives the viewers a special message.
  • Goosebumps will also be 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, with Sony looking for a screenwriter.[2]

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