Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Jack BlackR.L. Stine
- Dylan MinnetteZach Cooper
- Odeya RushHannah Fairchild
- Amy RyanGale Cooper
- Ryan LeeChamp
- Jillian BellLorraine Conyers
- Halston SageTaylor
- Ken MarinoCoach Carr
- Timothy SimonsOfficer Stevens
- Amanda LundOfficer Brooks
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
It’s a never-boring trip to a world, where stories and imagination are powerful tools, that just might inspire kids to do the scariest thing of all: pick up a book - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
The fulcrum to the success of Goosebumps, it must be noted, is the perfect casting of Jack Black as Stine. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Keeping the creepy/kooky mix entertainingly intact, Goosebumps translates R.L. Stine’s frighteningly successful young adult horror fiction series to the big screen with lively, teen Ghostbusters-type results. - 70
TheWrap
Goofily self-aware and wholesomely boisterous, it’s a children’s picture whose sense of spooky fun readily diverts from its quibble-worthy messaging. - 67
Hitfix
There's not an ounce of fat on the film. It feels like it moves forward in every single scene, and while it's a little mechanical about how it follows three-act structure, it's almost charmingly old-fashioned about it. - 63
Slant Magazine
Some of the wittier one-liners and more affecting emotional moments feel undermined by the frenzy of chaotic excess. - 60
The Guardian
There’s a streak of old-fashioned B-movie spooky playfulness here, and when actual, motivated characters are on screen it’s delightful. - 50
The Playlist
A film that assembles many of the author’s most memorable creations with noisy, tossed-off sloppiness.
