R.B. Farraday is the main antagonist of the eighth Goosebumps Series 2000 book, Fright Camp.
History[]
Fright Camp[]
Farraday is a renowned director of many horror films, which has earned him the title of "The Scariest Man on Earth. He opened a camp called "Fright Camp" so that his fans, including Andrew and Tyler Herman, could experience the scares of his movies in real life.
Soon the scares he had cooked up started to seem too real, with his assistant going too far with some of them. Eventually things got so out of control that he ran away due to guilt. It turned out that everything going on was fake, and he created everything to get authentic footage for a documentary on fear.
The kids were upset but even after they pulled a scare of their own, he pulled one in return and told the kids they had two more weeks of Fright Camp left.
Goosebumps HorrorTown[]
Farraday was a student of Mrs. Maaargh and a trouble maker during his youth. A decade later R.B Farraday returns to HorrorTown just after Slappy the Dummy became the king of HorrorTown.
Farraday is assigned by Slappy to make a film about him and Farraday desgins a horror-themed amusement park in the promenade with the help of Professor Shock. When Marty Ricardo breaks into the Amusement park before it opens, Farraday hides in his garage and encounters Erin Wright a creation of Professor Shock.
Farraday starts filming Marty and Erin though is interrupted by Slappy several times. After Marty discovers that Erin is a robot, he tries to escape the park and Farraday ends the film. He reveals to Slappy that he used him for funding the film and that he was filming Marty and Erin for his movie, angering Slappy before Farraday scares him by threatening to put him to sleep by using some magic words. Later Mrs. Maaargh threatens R.B Farraday, saying she will call Mr. Chameleon to turn his film black and white, to which she does.
Filmography[]
It is stated that Farraday created thirty-five films. The following is a list of films named throughout the book:
- The Beast with Three Brains
- The Carnival of Disgusting Horrors
- The Cavern of No Return
- Crab Monsters vs The Leech People
- Conquerors of the Gorilla Planet
- Go-carts from the Evil Kingdom
- Kunga the Animal Vampire
- Lake of the Water Zombies
- Night of the June Bugs
- Prisoners of the Vampire King
- The Revenge of Dr. Cruel
- Vacation of Endless Doom
General information[]
Personality[]
Farraday is obsessed with scaring people, to the point where he set up tons of real looking scares to get genuine reactions out of the campers. He wanted to capture real terror for the kids. While they were all fake, some of them felt too real to the kids and he didn't care that they were upset about being used.
Physical appearance[]
He is very short and skinny, with a closely trimmed beard and black hair. HorrorTown shows him to be pale and without a beard.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He is a possible parody of Roger Corman, who is known for making cheap B-movies.
- The style of his name might be a reference to R.L. Stine.
- His design in Goosebumps HorrorTown is similar to that of The Director from Halloween Horror Nights.