Review #263: Goosebumps (2015)
This review was originally written in October 2023. Gabe's Horror Movie October Review #17 - Goosebumps (2015) Ermahgerd! Gersberms! In case it wasn't obvious, Goosebumps is a film adaptation of the wildly popular series of children's books of the same name. The plot follows Zach, a teenager who just moved into a small town, when he begins to suspect the next-door neighbor of hurting (or possibly killing) his daughter. After sneaking into the neighbor's house, Zach learns that the neighbor is none other than famed horror writer R.L. Stine, creator of the Goosebumps series- but the series turns out to be more than simply fiction, and all of the monsters from the various books start coming into the real world. First things first, I'm not going to be super harsh on this film because it's clearly meant to be (more or less) a children's movie, so I'll give it a pass for being more action- and comedy-oriented than strictly horror. The only bad thing I have to ...