2015 · adventure · horror · comedy
Goosebumps
Directed by Rob Letterman1h 43m2015
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Our read: Goosebumps (2015) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive adventure · horror · comedy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured adventure / horror, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
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“You want kid-friendly monster chaos with Jack Black energy and R.L. Stine nostalgia.”
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