Synopsis
Be careful what you wish for. With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people’s trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a locked book that frees a supernatural nightmare – Slappy! Now, with the help of Sonny’s sister Sarah, they’re in a race against time to get the sinister dummy and all the creatures he’s brought to life back into the pages before he unleashes total pandemonium!
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Cast
- Jeremy Ray TaylorSonny Quinn
- Madison IsemanSarah Quinn
- Caleel HarrisSam
- Wendi McLendon-CoveyKathey Quinn
- Ken JeongMr. Chu
- Chris ParnellWalter
- Bryce CassTyler
- Peyton WichTommy
- Shari HeadleyMrs. Carter
- Christian FinlaysonCooper
Recommendations
- 78
Austin Chronicle
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween knows what its target demographic wants but also resonates with adult audiences, thanks to the zippy plot and across-the-board excellent performances from the totally game cast. - 63
San Francisco Chronicle
Beyond some network television-quality production values, the sequel to the 2015 film is completely satisfactory family entertainment. It's hard to imagine anyone putting "Goosebumps 2" on their end-of-year worst movie list. And not just because it's hard to imagine anyone even remembering this film beyond next Tuesday. - 59
IGN
The Halloween monster mash iconography is incredibly strong and the cast is excellent, but Goosebumps 2 is in far too much of a hurry – and perhaps too eager to be widely accessible – to be actually scary or wholly effective. - 58
IndieWire
The creativity may be lacking in other areas, but “Goosebumps 2” steps up the creature feature quotient with style and smarts. - 58
TheWrap
As directed by Ari Sendal (“The Duff”), the film keeps its low-key, harmless energy at a steady simmer. Every once in a while a joke is funnier than you might expect, or a monster looks surprisingly spooky, but overall this is a safe, by the numbers Halloween family film. - 58
Entertainment Weekly
The real magic of the movie comes in its echoes of the first — namely, Black’s performance as the Goosebumps mastermind. - 50
The A.V. Club
Though Sandel relies less on exasperating, rubbery digital effects than Rob Letterman, the DreamWorks Animation vet who helmed the original, his direction of the monsters and mayhem is never more than workmanlike, racing joylessly through a shaky plot that barely holds attention. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Although it provides a fair number of mild scares and laughs, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween feels more like a kiddie film than did the original.
