Midnight Screenings - Goosebumps

Doug and Rob Walker join Brad to talk about the Goosebumps movie.

[@Yogaji]

Oh wow Midnight Screenings and Sibling Rivalry has combined! Midnight Rivalry!

[@Dimensioneer88]

+No_One Important Love that title

[@CB-qg3yh]

Stop! You're blowing my mind

[@futuremovieactor]

+No_One Important or Sibling Screenings. ...Midnight Rivalry is better.

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

OMG yes!!!!

[@StudioInkblot]

But no title sequence.

[@Persian1313]

As a huge fan of the books and the show when I was a kid, I loved this movie. To me, it felt like a movie-length episode of the show, with better effects.I saw so many great references! I'm a bit sad that they didn't make a reference to "One day at Horrorland" with that amusement park, but I just loved Slappy, he was awesome!

[@adamtherock2008]

Just got back from the movie. I didn't read much Goosebumps growing up, but I thought that it was a perfectly serviceable and fun time for kids and families. It had a brisk pace, some great atmosphere, and a surprisingly heartfelt twist. I even thought that a lot of the jokes were great. My only problems with it were some spotty CGI and the ending was a tad hokey and didn't make logical sense. Still, I highly recommend it. On a side note, in regards to the dad joke: basically Champ sees his who he thinks is his father frozen by the aliens. He starts freaking out until he realizes that it isn't actually him. Champ then calms down and shrugs it off. The joke is that he was totally fine with someone else being frozen and suffering. Really surprised that he didn't get it.

[@Actar_Raikit]

Just got back from seeing the film and I'm actually perturbed by their comments. Doug and the gang said that it would have been much better if it didn't try to take itself seriously. Were they? From what I saw, it never took itself seriously, wasn't trying to be genuinely scary and had a ton of fun with the idea and characters. It was very, very self-aware, had very well-written humor and was an intelligent movie from start to finish.

[@Knightmessenger]

Yeah, I'm surprised they didn't like it. It was totally aware of where it was going. I thought it was really funny.

[@GrobmotorikJones]

just saw it on netflix and it went better than expected. i don't think this movie takes itself serious at ALL. I am saying this as a 90s kid from germany, whose contemporary critics are literally DESTROYING good shows like "Dark", so my ability to suffer must be pretty low, anecdotal to the fact that i grew up with german exploitation gore movies like "Schramm" by Jörg Buttgereit and "The german Chainsaw Massacre" by Christoph Schlingensief. But i really enjoyed Goosebumps, it had some over the top humor, it was cheesy, but not bad made at all. EDIT: they just said that the jokes were lame. i agree. but they were so intenseley lame, it was just hilarious making fun about how bad the jokes were. we have a saying in germany: "So Scheiße, dass es wieder gut ist" (so bad, it's actually good again).

[@kevinthepilgrim]

I've come to love Brad Jones more and more while my enjoyment of the Walker brothers has been in a big nosedive in the last few moments.

[@diddyknux]

+Kevin H. Pilgrim Moments? Did you mean to say months, or over the course of this review did you come to say "Fuck these guys?"

[@kevinthepilgrim]

+diddyknux Hahaha, it was a typo. I meant months. Your comment was pretty funny, btw.

[@theblocksays]

+Kevin H. Pilgrim Yeah, I was already expecting Doug to make another clipless NC episode for this in a short amount of time, seems after him ripping on Event Horizon that he's finally running out of nostalgic movies to review. I wonder when he breaks his vow and actually DOES review Toys for some Robin Williams tribute.

[@charlescopeland5330]

Kevin H. Pilgrim his comedy is more cynical and mature. the critic comes off as kind of cartoony these days.

[@talynhastime9343]

I freaking loved Skyhigh. That was a great-ass movie.

[@miaria2049]

Talyn has time Agree! Love Steven Strait

[@maxtheaxeiswax]

I'm one of those guys who loved Goosebumps as a kid even though I never found them scary or even funny. I don't know what it was that kept me reading them. It's one of those things where my only thought was "I dunno, I just like it".

[@perplacymp]

+maxtheaxeiswax that would be the definition of a succesfull childrens book.

[@gratuitouslurking8610]

+maxtheaxeiswax Eh, in my case it was less scary and more... creative. They did some REALLY off the wall stuff with some of them that lead to interesting reads.

[@jokerhalo1]

+maxtheaxeiswax I found them well written for a kid book and the creatures were interesting. They scared me but I got scared really easy as a kid

[@ColetheAero]

Haunted Mask is actually the closes the series ever got to being legitimately scary.

[@joegrace5419]

+ColetheAero And from what I seen there was no cameo of the mask at all.

[@ColetheAero]

Joe Grace awwwwwwwww !!!!!!!

[@karmasarmy1748]

+Joe Grace Apparently the Mask was in it, it's just a hidden cameo for some reason. The credits list the girl from the book, so it must be in the crowd scene or something. I'm more disappointed that they didn't say the theme park was Horrorland, nor did they introduce the 'Horrors' at any point... But at least we got the Cucco Clock of Doom :3

[@crimsonblade25]

I dunno I always thought the Slappy books were hela creepy. Then again I find dolls creepy so that might influence it

[@sebastianemond5313]

​@@crimsonblade25 Maybe if they had played Slappy like Billy the Dummy from Dead Silence.

[@crimsonblade25]

There were some RL stone books that were pretty creepy. The one where the main girl has fire powers, the one about the sentient killer car, the Slappy books, the mystery one where the characters are killed off one by one and the main girl has amnesia. There are tons of fun or great RL Stein books and it was fun to meet the man and get a series signed by him

[@marcoskain7104]

I'm sorry, but I disagree with your comments. You don't need to be a certain age to enjoy something. I was 10 when the books first came out and they captivated me immediately. I have all 62 of the original books and several of the off shoots like the 2000 series and the choose your own ending ones. I also enjoyed the show even though it butchered some of the books. As for the movie, I highly enjoyed it. It was written like a Goosebumps book and that is what I liked about it. It isn't anywhere near the best movie ever, but Jack Black was easily the star of the show and really drove the movie. Way better than Crimson Peak. Oh, and it feels like a 90s movie because it was made to be that way, which makes sense since the books were from the 90s. The kid who played Zach is from Agents of SHIELD.

[@ronanepic2457]

This movie surprised me. I thought it would suck and it definitely had low points but overall I liked it (not like there's anything else spectacular these days for Halloween)

[@DeadManSinging1]

+Marcos Kain When you were ten, did you also read actual horror novels? Because they said thats why they didnt like the books.

[@marcoskain7104]

+Uncle Fester No, my parents didn't let me do any of that until I was 15, but that isn't my point. My point is you don't need to be a certain age to enjoy something.

[@DeadManSinging1]

Marcos Kain Well some people do need to be the right age. It's dependant on the person. Besides, they said they didn't like Goosebumps because they were allowed to read horror novels at a young age so it didn't scare them. They didn't just say "Oh we were too old for those books".

[@frogmad13]

The snob and critic unite!

[@FullMoonHowl2233]

+Al Hoyt re-unite

[@SsnakeBite]

+Al Hoyt Seems like it would just make The Critic from the cartoon of the same name.

[@packmentalitymedia]

+Al Hoyt And Santa Christ too!

[@FullMoonHowl2233]

+Hongye Dong They reviewed Leprechaun together

[@Foxpawed]

+Scott West and Sharknado

[@dylanwax7756]

I sooooo want to see that Stephen King movie you described. And the twist at the end: The entire movie is a book written by an alien who is the stephen king equivalent on his planet.

[@dylanwax7756]

+Nutmeg Coney And the alien is played by Jack Black

[@futuremovieactor]

+Nutmeg Coney I thought this movie was gonna end with the reveal that the whole thing was written by the real R.L. Stine since I knew he made a cameo. his actual cameo was funnier though.

[@perplacymp]

+Nutmeg Coney creepy considering every Stephen King character is "based on" Stephen King.

[@JustinSimpson]

I usually agree with you guys for the most part, but I liked it. I read the Goosebumps books and this movie was just a nice homage.

[@kiruppert]

I'm always a little weirded out when it's pointed out that Rob is the elder of the Walker Brothers. He just looks younger than Doug.

[@mariannebossu]

Now I want the Stephen King version SO BAD!!!

[@PictureProductStudio]

Wasn't expecting Doug and Rob Walker. How come videos of Brad Jones sitting in the car after the screening are that entertaining? Magic.

[@japeth3213]

I think I just figured the difference between 80's and 90's kids. I grew up in the 90's and I loved movies like Jumanji and Small Soldiers, but I don't go around and act like they were a miracle of nature, like "what the hell are you doing watching Mad Max Fury Road? This Robin Williams shit is where it's at." No, they are my own nostalgia and mine only. However, kids from the 80's are the exact opposite, they act like it never got better than their era, in some cases their right (John Carpenter's The Thing, Ghostbusters) others not so much. For example, I've talked with certain people who laugh and brush off stuff I loved as a kid, yet turn around and say with a straight face that The Running Man and Top Gun still totally hold up.

[@MarkyMatey]

The Running man holds up Hell I'm a millennial. I agree that when gen x kids look down at gen y and millennial nostalgia like Power rangers(even though it had strong seasons).

[@JBWarner86]

+JodoKastRules321 Oh good, so I'm not the only one who notices. Doug and Rob sing the praises of the '80s like they brought the second coming of Christ or something, and always bitch and moan about the '90s as if they were the collapse of western civilization. Heads up, guys, just because you snuck into R-rated movies about people's heads exploding every two seconds when you were in grade school and we didn't doesn't mean your generation is inherently superior to ours.

[@japeth3213]

+JBWarner86 I might have come off a little stuffy, what I was trying to say is there are undeniably great things that came out of the 80's, but that's also true for any other decade. I'm missing where it was a decade where everything was great (like do you know how many people have said Spaceballs is Mel Brooks' best movie. Really? REALLY??)

[@DeadManSinging1]

+JodoKastRules321 Yeah, I like SpaceBalls but it's pretty dumb compared to other Mel Brooks movies.

[@leethompson-kolar6333]

Agreed. Worst part is, the media has noticed this and won't let it go. Guardians of the Galaxy, Pixels, Regular Show, and all the remakes of movies from the '80s... all these and more play the '80s card like their trump card. It's gotten old. It's hard having nostalgia for the 2000s...

[@KiraMustDie26]

About time you do one of these with Doug. It'll be interesting to see you do one of these with him on a movie where you're both split on, like Unfriended.

[@rotblitzkrieg]

Where the fuck is Doug's beard?! I don't like change!!!!!

[@DigiRangerScott]

In the newest Gravity Falls vlog he said it has something to do with whatever happens in the review released this upcoming Tuesday

[@SsnakeBite]

+rotblitzkrieg He donated it to Brad so he can glue the hair on his head.

[@brianstraight9308]

+Scott Sandler "review released this upcoming.." Gah! Time-loop paradox! Or poor understanding of verb tenses.

[@captcrais101]

+rotblitzkrieg I like it

[@fhb3]

+rotblitzkrieg He lost The Goatee AGAIN!

[@tenchiofJurai67]

THANK YOU! Im glad I am not the only one who saw the Jumanji parallels in this stinker of a film!

[@futuremovieactor]

+tenchiofJurai67 it wasn't a stinker to me. I caught the Jumanji parallels a year in advance when I first read the plot summary summer 2014.

[@sillygrl23]

+tenchiofJurai67 I am not going to lie, that is what made me want to see it in the first place. I love that movie! :D

[@RobotnikHolmes]

Can it just be known that its nice seeing these usually critical people all cheerful and laughing together?

[@jacobmatthewcrawford2120]

+Connall Trott ...Agreed!

[@B.-T.]

Are You Afraid Of The Dark was way scarier than Goosebumps. How come it doesn't have its own movie?

[@everettvonscott]

+B. T. Money.

[@JohnOmniviz]

+Bryton Cherrier But their both Canadian....

[@DigiRangerScott]

…Because the series finale was one…

[@JohnOmniviz]

***** iirc the show is "Made in Canada"

[@mythbuster43]

+B. T. Popularity/Financial success =/= quality

[@bsgtrekfan88]

as a LONGTIME fan of TGWTG.com Its always cool to see these "cameo" reviews in the natural element. Case in point...the behind the scene vidoes...the "official" videos with a crossover......thene these kind of videos...a side project thats popular that features A-list tallent from the site! Hats off to you three...Qapla! Never get tired of you all! Cape Cod,MA

[@M1GR1]

Rob looks like a creeper with the shadowing and being in the back with almost no expression.

[@StudioInkblot]

Rob's a hellspawn. I thought that was common knowledge.

[@petewadesays12]

I said this already on Brad Jones Facebook Page, I'm really happy we finally got Doug and Rob in a Midnight Screenings. One of those weird, "said it all the time, finally happened" Kudos on yet another hilarious and awesome video together guys.:)

[@DeniseFaraday]

I love these kinds of crossovers when members of Channel Awesome get together to do something...well, awesome! LOL

[@williamallcock2222]

Ernest scared stupid, Hocus pocus, Small soldiers, & Jumanji, this movie is perfect for me.

[@MrGMANStudios]

Holy crap, I've always wanted Critic and Snob to do a Midnight Screening together. Aweome

[@mecha5409]

This combination of midnight screenings and sibling rivalry makes me really happy

[@APPictures9]

Nice to see you, Doug. :)

[@MarceloRBottaro]

About time Doug and Rob Walker joined in the Midnight Screening videos.

[@shillanna]

That was a nice surprise, having Doug and Rob with you. :D

[@tomato_dragon9585]

Wow, from the thumbnail, that guy next to Brad looks a lot like Doug. ...OH MY GOD

[@MrsMojoRisinBlues]

I got excited when Brad compared Jack Black to John Belushi in Neighbors, because that means he actually saw the movie and he's the only person I know of who's also seen the movie. It's a hidden gem.

[@chinniepie]

+MrsMojoRisinBlues Neighbors was actually the first movie to freak me out (watched it around 3 years ago). Everything was so surreal and dreamlike. More people need to know more about the movie.

[@culwin]

+MrsMojoRisinBlues I've seen the movie plenty of times. Comedy Central used to play it pretty frequently so I'm sure other people have too.

[@MatthewHomolka]

i was waiting for a midnight screening with rob and doug, strange choice for a movie to see together with brad

[@jonasking9587]

Love that I rediscovered these. I've watched far too many of them.

[@VirtualBoy500]

Was not expecting a Midnight Screenings crossover with the Walker brothers, but so glad to see it. :) (Oh, hey, Doug shaved)

[@DocterPink333]

This is a format that really suits Doug & Rob actually

[@grobanlover292]

Jontron would disagree with you about Goosebumps being scary

[@thewraithwriter22]

Was that cut at 22 minutes supposed to be a commercial break?

[@StonedGremlinProductions]

+TheWraith Writer Nah, I was just flicking something away from the lens.

[@GrinningMarionette]

+TheWraith Writer Ohey, it's you! Hiii!

[@thewraithwriter22]

Stoned Gremlin Productions Ah, gotcha

[@thewraithwriter22]

Harmania Indeed!

[@GrinningMarionette]

TheWraith Writer I didn't know you liked Cinemasnob.

[@funnydude595]

Goosebumps: the best movie Joe Dante should've made

[@TVsTewi]

Oh, what a twist! Doug and his brother with the snob!

[@ikillomega]

Rob's floating Bohemian Rhapsody head in the back seat is scarier than Goosebumps.

[@homerco213]

I was 12 when Goosebumps came out. I avoided it like the plague and read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy twice by the time I graduated. Also Calvin and Hobbes. Although I heard Stein talk about writing the series and he was targeting specifically boys who don't read. The broad and simple humor stems from that motivation.

[@reednaylor1894]

HOLY SHIT NOSTALGIA CRITIC

[@fhb3]

+Aaron Harville (DarkArrow) Without "The Goatee"...

[@c.skyrie3434]

and his brother, they are all friends and work together

[@lakituscamera1508]

Great to see Doug and Rob on the movie I've been looking forward to for a while!

[@MsTinkerbelle87]

You guys should hang out more, this was awesome!!!!

[@CinephileStudios]

I thought this movie was pretty good. Yeah I thought they should've been more self-aware, like 21 Jump Street, but I laughed at most of the jokes, Jack Black is always fun, and the movie was well-paced. Would've liked to have seen more characters from the books though. It was a tribute to the series, and it did it's job well

[@thecriticalgamer8462]

gotta admit, when i was a little kid, those slappy episodes of goosebumps scared the living shit out of me for like 2 weeks

[@noobsybot9926]

Oddly enough, you had to have read a good number of the books to have understood the movies structure and even the twist with Hana took me like ten minutes to piece together. To those who hadn't figured it out, Hana is in reality The Ghost Next Door. It was when Stine said that Hana was different than the other Monsters.

[@JYJnKumi]

I enjoyed this movie. My fiance and I had so much fun, because we grew up reading the books. I started reading them when I was in preschool (I was born in 1990), so seeing this movie just dragged me back to my childhood. Goosebumps was never scary, but it was fun and tacky - exactly how this movie was. (^ ^*)

[@Firehawk873]

OOOOHHH what a twist with Doug and Rob.

[@nathanhall9345]

The first thing you learn reading Goosebumps as a kid: How scary they are varies WILDLY from book to book. Some are more of an H.G.Wells-lite. But a couple still kinda creep me out today. (Coming from a long-time Horror lover)

[@EpicMickey777]

+Nathan Hall Definitely. They shouldn't have gone if they aren't Goosebumps fans. That's like eating vegetables if you aren't a vegetarian.

[@nathanhall9345]

Hahaha Looking at the trailers, I got the vibe that the film didn't capture the legitimate creep factor that some books had.

[@EpicMickey777]

It's still a pretty good film. And funny at times too.

[@MrKaywyn]

A review with Brad; Doug and Rob. Excellent!

[@xfronwenzyoucamex]

I seriously didn't recognize Doug for a minute. I recognized his voice before his face.

[@JBWarner86]

From 1995 to 1998, I was the world's biggest Goosebumps fan - I read every book, I watched the show every week on FOX Kids, I collected the trading cards, I had the Pogs, for God's sake...and even back then, there were rumors that a movie might be in the works. I waited twenty years for this thing to be a reality. And obviously, when I wait that long for an event like this to happen, my expectations are going to be way too high to actually be met. Don't get me wrong, it absolutely has its moments. I love seeing all of R.L. Stine's monsters ganging up to attack the world. Slappy is appropriately creepy, and they even did a fine job taking antagonists like the lawn gnomes or the Abominable Snowman who weren't at all scary in the books and making them suitably threatening. Hell, even Jack Black does well as R.L. Stine - it's an odd casting choice, to be sure, but he's still pretty funny ("Let me tell you something about STEVE King, okay?"). But the rest of the cast is a big detriment. Zach is dull as a damp mop, and the monster-free first 25 minutes drag by at a snail's pace. Until the Goosebumps stuff kicks in, it's basically just a run-of-the-mill kids' movie that doesn't try very hard to make an identity for itself. And as much fun as it was to see so many classic Goosebumps creatures and villains wreaking havoc together, most of their rampages were pretty generic - you could have put any kind of monster in there and it would have been the same thing. Like, the Abominable Snowman may be more vicious in the movie than he was in the book, but he's still basically just an ape. What about his weakness for trail mix, or his ability to melt ice and snow by touching it? You coulda worked that in somehow. And I really wanted to see the protagonists of the books show up too - Carly Beth and Steve, Evan and Andy, Gabe and Sari, Billy and Sheena, all those guys. How great would it be to have the heroes turn to them for support, since they're the ones who fought these creatures in the books and know how to take them down? But like I said, I can't fault the movie too much just for not being the holy-crap-stop-the-world epic movie that I, a humongous Goosebumps dork, had been writing in my head for the last 20 years. It was far from perfect, but it was still pretty fun, and once it got past all that cliche teen movie crap at the beginning, it more or less quit taking itself seriously and just had a good time letting monsters wreck shit up. At the end of the day, it's a harmless little nostalgia trip for '90s kids like me.

[@captcrais101]

That amusement park reminded me of a park I want to when I was young which is now closed.

[@merpo2806]

I like how the monsters were represented in the movie, especially Slappy.

[@viddergrapho8488]

Dear Brad, if you're tired of zombie films you're gonna LOVE The Girl With All The Gifts

[@Azreal231916]

Holy shit it's Doug and Rob! Neat

[@galaxa13]

I remember in third grade my classmates talking about how good the Goosbumps books were. "They are sooo scary! These are the books that us kids can read and not get in trouble!" I stayed away from them because I didn't like horror, but then everyone just kept talking about them so I picked up one of the books in my classroom bookshelf and started reading it. I couldn't even get through that one book. Not because it was too scary, but because I thought it was stupid. I'm glad to know I didn't miss much by reading that series or by not watching this movie.

[@gmoney66]

I loved Goosebumps when I was a kid, but I can in no way defend it. Especially when there would be "twists" in them, and they'd be completely spoiled by the cover art.

[@Thebucketfulorats]

New challengers have risen in the "midnight screenings" nice to see Doug lower energy then in his videos

[@hassaanmirza4628]

Going from watching stuff on Channel Awesome to this, the comment section whiplash is confounding. Is this due to them bashing Goosebumps? I mean, I love Goosebumps and was scared by them as a kid, but I acknowledge that they don't like it because it was past their time.

[@RyansChannel0203]

Wtf? The Martian, The Walk, and even Goosebumps all had amazing 3D!

[@Happaning_tube]

glad to see the Walker Brothers on with you

[@shmickmik]

Does anyone have a link to that Abandoned Disney Park video Brad was talking about?

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

+katie c There's actually two of them. Disney's Discovery Island and Disney's River Country water park.

[@cannibalisticrequiem]

+Rosesquirrel Nah. Although I believe the creepypasta was inspired by the actual abandoned parks.

[@JustinSimpson]

+Shmick_ It's the old "River Country" water park in Florida. There is the Creepypasta audio video "Abandoned by Disney" and then there is the actual video of "RIver Country" abandoned.

[@roberteaston42]

there is also an abandoned park in New Orleans that disney was supposed to open the day after Hurricane Katrina

[@miaria2049]

Robert Easton wasn't/is there a Six Flags that was abandoned after Katrina?

[@scottyredfox2982]

an explanation for the invisible boy sticking around is the proximity range thats needed for the monsters to be sucked into the books thats brought up in the ice rink

[@jarvis8708]

I love how ironic he’s statement “it really thinks it’s funny and scary”

[@Mayeur000Donz]

I checked out a few Goosebumps books earlier this year while I was putting together a book collection. I really didn't dig all the fake-outs... I couldn't believe how often there's be a great build-up in an early chapter and then it would turn out to have been a dream...

[@ThePoperock]

I abandoned place Brad was mentioning is called Discovery Island. It shut down in 1999. The story behind its shutdown is pretty interesting.

[@jdzencelowcz]

Baby face NC!!!! PS, Goosebumps was, is, & always will be, AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!

[@Quincy_Morris]

As someone who doesn't like scary movies I really enjoyed it.

[@ackbarfan5556]

Oh my god! You even got Rob here!

[@KyProRen]

Rob: "I'm not gonna say this was great, but then again it wasn't Alvin and the Chipmunks The Ro- Brad: "The Road Chip?" Doug: "Yeah." Brad: "Norm of the North." Norm of the North? *[Looks it up and watches the trailer]* Wow! That looked incredibly stupid.

[@RomrotMechanikos]

Rob is just a disembodied head in the back

[@UndeadNerdT800]

This movie is 7 years old wow.

[@idiot_wins]

I liked it for what it was. I wasn't expecting too much out of it, so it was somewhat of a pleasant surprise.

[@ivanflores2683]

AN ALL-STAR CAST!

[@DamjanPlamenac]

I was kinda hoping the movie ends with the camera zooming in on the towers just as WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM !!! PLANE! BLAMMO! Cut to black. Jimi Hendrix - All along the Watchtower starts playing. Roll Credits.

[@Celicagame13]

Too much awesome happening in this video

[@Rocketboy1313]

"Goosebumps" is not supposed to be scary. It is silly. It has always been silly. For god sakes.... Gnomes.

[@adidas198]

I seriously didn't recognize Doug for a second there without his beard.

[@mikigirl18]

I enjoyed the RL Stine series Fear Street. It was like the high school horror series and I know I'm older than these guys.

[@kurvos]

I simply want one single thing to be answered - does the theme from the Goosebumps TV series appear in this movie?

[@kurvos]

Joe Grace Oh... well, if that's so, then fuck this movie. XP lol

[@kurvos]

Joe Grace That's really sad, man. :( Oh well... good to know now then I should avoid this movie like the plague. "Good kids movie" doesn't really cut it for me. XP

[@WalterUnglaub]

+Joe Grace There actually was a Haunted Mask cameo, but it's extremely easy to miss...when they're being chased through the woods towards the end, one of the shots is of the monsters running towards the camera, and the girl wearing the haunted mask can be seen on the right. I'm amazed I caught it, lol. The camera cuts away pretty quickly, which was kinda annoying since I really wanted to see more of the monsters from the series be featured, rather than simply a few like Slappy, the werewolf, gnomes, and the mantis from Shock Street. Regarding the theme, I agree. I was thrilled when I found out Danny Elfman was doing the soundtrack. but pretty disappointed that he completely disregarded the theme from the TV series. Someone like Elfman should have had no trouble incorporating the theme throughout the score, so I can only imagine that legal/licensing issues prevented him from using it...or perhaps no one involved really cared to use it :/

[@kurvos]

+Walter Unglaub I guess that further goes to show this movie was sadly only made for the money... :(

[@pjsmith97]

+kurvos It really wasn't some shallow cash grab. I watched it, and my thoughts can be summed in Jeremy Jahns' video and Chris Stuckman's video.

[@BradShadowDog]

The way how these guys explained it, makes me think of nostalgia critic reviewing this movie in that live action reviews of his. Or what I mean is I could see that happening is all.

[@kaneinight]

Believe it or not, there's a reason Goosebumps is one of the most popular and successful book series of all time. The movie is intentionally celebratory of Goosebumps, because it's more than worthy of celebrating, and is loved by millions of people. I'm honestly really surprised to see Doug this way in this video, as he's not usually this ignorant and close-minded. The movie was definitely not creepy enough though, and for me, didn't come anywhere near close enough to capturing the feel of the books or the TV show. The idea is great, it just wasn't executed as well as it should have been. Not to mention the love story thrown in was horrendous and pandering way too much to the Twilight tweener crowd. Overall, it's certainly not horrible, but I hope they do better with the inevitable sequel.

[@Morgil27]

I loved Goosebumps as a kid. Not so much the TV series, but I loved the books. I always thought of them as like a kids' version of the Twilight Zone. They weren't always scary, but they still usually had some interesting senarrio with an equally interesting twist ending. As for the movie, while I do kinda agree with these guys on some of the movie's humor, i still found it to be very entertaining. Now I just wish I still had some of my old books, but I sadly sold them all years ago.

[@Traillblazer]

I didn't notice Doug without his goatee.

[@caitlinrobinson6812]

i was interested in watching this, but Crimson Peak is this week. I am going to see it. i am shocked this is getting slighly better reviews than Crimson Peak.

[@dragoncatoverload]

Actually being a total wimp goosebumps not being scary was what drew me in as a child XD Same with the Michigan/American chillers books and a few other books. And yeah the books weren't adult level well written but for simple writing meant for elementary school kids the books had engaging stories and interesting ideas. It played a lot with typical childhood fears that I don't think a lot of scary kids' books do such as fear of the basement, fear of getting separated or loss from your parents/your group, fear of your parents not believing you about something, fear of weird creepy objects like lawn gnomes, etc., As for the movie, I went in expecting dumb fun and that's what I got. Also Slappy was the best part of that movie.

[@AFCoulthard]

Sweet: doug and brad..................and linkara.

[@AFCoulthard]

Hongye Dong yea i don't know his actual name xD

[@Logan912]

+Alex Coulthard Rob Walker isn't Linkara though. That's Lewis Lovhaug.

[@dukespubber741]

I have seen this happen before. Why do people keep thinking Rob is Linkara?

[@AFCoulthard]

TBH I saw him in the background in the shadows while mostly listening to the video in another window.

[@culwin]

Brian looks different without the beard

[@Ghost1926]

Brad makes reference to abandoned Disney water park - pauses video, goes and looks up footage of said abandoned park...2 hours later watching videos of people wandering around abandoned motels...yep that seems about right

[@FritzMonorail]

I was really scared of that dummy when I was little.

[@blue3616]

+Fritz monorail Same, when I was little my mom officially grounded me from reading Goosebumps books after I ran into my parent's room crying that I had a nightmare where the dummy tried to kill me....so yeah, I kind of disagree with them saying that the books were "not scary"

[@CynderSpirit]

The Dummy ones I always thought did a good job. I mean if you think about there is a legit threat. Slappy is suppose to be a demonic spirit who lives inside a wooden dummy his purpose is to make people his own personal slaves and if you don't do what he wants he will try ruining your entire life and then he turns you into a dummy or he posses you. Slappy is also known to be violent I think I remember he abused the family dog in one of the books. Yeah Slappy left me nightmares for years.

[@HippieGoddess142]

The werewolf story of goosebumps was pretty scary but then again, I had a stint of being scared of werewolves as a kid lol

[@marcen12]

I liked this movie because it never takes itself seriously....just like the books!

[@videogamehunter820]

Oh my God. WHO WANTS TO SEE A LIVE ACTION FILM ADAPTATION OF "SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK"?! FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

[@FritzMonorail]

I use to read those all the time. That would be awesome.

[@kartoonfanatic]

I like the idea. How would it be approached?

[@videogamehunter820]

kartoonfanatic Shit if I know. But it would probably have to be a pure cgi or animated film just caption the surreality of the drawings (since they were not drawn very realistically). The kind of smokey-like look as well as all the dripping blood effects all over Stephen Gammell's drawing could not be done in a realistic looking movie. Maybe something like Sin City; where everything is exaggerated with shadows. That's just my guess.

[@kartoonfanatic]

videogamehunter820 Neat. :3

[@ValkyrieCain123]

So what's with the Doug Walker hate and what are people talking about with Lupa and Doug? :o Can someone please fill me in?

[@kartoonfanatic]

These guys don't realize that the consequences in the books were much higher than the series. They were a little more lenient with the scares with the TV series, but there's also the factor that watching a show or movie doesn't accurately convey the stress or thrills of reading the book and wondering if the protagonist was going to live or not. Stine's books are easy for kids to put themselves into, and that makes it scarier. Particularly one scary adaption of the horror genre was was one with a guy taking pictures of his family with an old camera from an abandoned house and seeing the car they were in totally wrecked--turns out the camera predicts bad future events. That book was terrifying.