When it comes to “family” entertainment, the 90s are sort of a lost decade for me. Growing up in the 80s and then working in the entertainment world in the 00’s – the 90s were the decade where I was growing up, rocking out, and in the end – getting married. A ton of really popular stuff came out that I totally missed (lots of Nickelodeon/Disney Channel shows for sure), and one thing I totally would’ve been into had I been born a bit later is R.L. Stine’s GOOSEBUMPS series. Being more than a little into monsters and such, seeing Jack Black jump into the role of an author with potential to unleash werewolves and evil snowmen into the real world is something that’s pretty intriguing. Check out the trailer for SONY/Columbia Pictures GOOSEBUMPS below…
About GOOSEBUMPS: Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach’s comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange… he is a prisoner of his own imagination – the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the 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.
Appropriately, this one will be released just in-time for Halloween – October 16, 2015!
