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"Goosebumps" official movie poster released
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OrlanisWorks
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Looks more like a fun kids adventure from that poster. No hint at anything scary. Just a terrible poster, maybe.
thetrin
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That's like, the ONLY episode I remember. It still makes no sense to me. What planet are they on, if they can see Earth that close?
Probably why Jack Black is R. L. Stein: when you do this you may as well go fuck it all in the process.
Discotheque
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Forreal, has anybody watched the series lately? Slappy's fuckin hilarious. Also kind of a dick
I mean, the dude only wants to enslave the human race.
That makes him a huge dong.
Jason Frost
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Will the green slime be in the movie?
The Silver
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and I don't care if I haven't watched it since I was a kid but the Werewolf of Fever Swamp had some legit atmosphere.
SatoAilDarko
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There was Goosebumps episode where some girl was investigating a haunted house for a school project and discovered some invisible kid. They become friends but their relationship sours.
Invisible kid begins to mess with her and scare her. In the end her parents, scientists, use a device to reveal him. They are surprised to find he is just a human boy.
The family then reveals their true forms as aliens. Apparently aliens took over Earth and sent all the humans away. The boy's parents turned him invisible so he could stay. At the end he's crying hunched over as the aliens stand over menacingly.
The plot doesn't make much sense other then for misdirection but the idea that everyone around you could be an alien or that your reality could be completely false struck and cord with very young me (less than 9 is as specific as I can remember).
I still have a but of paranoia and it could explain why Philip K. Dick is my favorite author.
Read all of those. I remember a scene form a last book where the alien teachers and the students were on a ship and they flew to a starving village and the aliens were like how could you humans let this happen. The students responded there was enough food but then the ship flew to a warehouse full of food and the Aliens basically rebuked them for not come up with more equality.
The book was fucked up. He basically rewrote his little sister from existence and didn't bother fixing it. Another case of me thinking about the cosmic meaning of things causing me to get down as a small kid.
Invisible kid begins to mess with her and scare her. In the end her parents, scientists, use a device to reveal him. They are surprised to find he is just a human boy.
The family then reveals their true forms as aliens. Apparently aliens took over Earth and sent all the humans away. The boy's parents turned him invisible so he could stay. At the end he's crying hunched over as the aliens stand over menacingly.
The plot doesn't make much sense other then for misdirection but the idea that everyone around you could be an alien or that your reality could be completely false struck and cord with very young me (less than 9 is as specific as I can remember).
I still have a but of paranoia and it could explain why Philip K. Dick is my favorite author.
*Calls Universal to cancel some scripts*
Read all of those. I remember a scene form a last book where the alien teachers and the students were on a ship and they flew to a starving village and the aliens were like how could you humans let this happen. The students responded there was enough food but then the ship flew to a warehouse full of food and the Aliens basically rebuked them for not come up with more equality.
The book was fucked up. He basically rewrote his little sister from existence and didn't bother fixing it. Another case of me thinking about the cosmic meaning of things causing me to get down as a small kid.
WordAssassin
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This is now a "goosebumps memories" thread.
Because fuck that poster and premise makes the film look awful.
The one Goosebumps plot that sticks with me was the Theme Park one (shock street or something) when they had that theme park where the frights and monsters were real. It follows a brother and sister as they try to reach their dad to tell him and in the end one of them died. The dad then simply revives them and basically reveals they are actually both just androids that don't know they aren't human. As the girl bot then struggles to deal with this revelation, the dad basically zaps her to reset her memory. What a bummer.
Another case of a dumb twist ending that came out of nowhere but my young brain still got mindfucked.
Because fuck that poster and premise makes the film look awful.
The one Goosebumps plot that sticks with me was the Theme Park one (shock street or something) when they had that theme park where the frights and monsters were real. It follows a brother and sister as they try to reach their dad to tell him and in the end one of them died. The dad then simply revives them and basically reveals they are actually both just androids that don't know they aren't human. As the girl bot then struggles to deal with this revelation, the dad basically zaps her to reset her memory. What a bummer.
Another case of a dumb twist ending that came out of nowhere but my young brain still got mindfucked.
You're dead.
mariachi507
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The movie should incorporate the TV show's theme song. I remember it being good.
thecouncil
Banned
I think it'd be fun to watch in a "I remember that book / reference!" kind of way. (I mean, watching the trailer kinda already was.)
Probably fun for kids too. It's around Halloween.
Who knows?
Doesn't look awful.
turned me off when the pop song came on, but I'll still watch it.
Looks fun
My Best Friend is Invisible was one of my favourite Goosebumps books when I was a kid. I think the plot, and twist, work better in the book as you can't obviously see what any of the characters look like, and I think it pretty much avoids describing what anyone looks like until the very end of the book.
Doesn't look as terrible as I thought. Feel at most it'll be a fun average movie.
Poker Face
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So not trying to be scary? Like at all? Seems kind of strange, lol.
I find funny that a lot of the books have that as the plot twist, like "the girl who cried monster" and that one with the kid who goes to a camp where there is a monster and the councellors kill kids where it turns out they were aliens an the camp was supposed to train the kid for a mision to invade Earth.
"Main character was a monster all along" is a fun trope tho.
digitalrelic
Banned
Wow. Surprised by the responses to the trailer. I think it looks absolutely awful.
sti4thewin
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Looks bad.
We need a hbo goosebumps television series
We need a hbo goosebumps television series
EroticSushi
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Looks like some straight to DVD Nickelodeon movie.
thecouncil
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Some of you are really looking for a lot of a Goosebumps movie. It's for kids, folks.
Yeah, I know that, but it looks bad with the awful humor and such. I'm just hoping the movie isn't entirely like this as it could do poorly on release.
Exterminieren
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Some of you have atrociously skewed memories of how scary Goosebumps actually is.
They're messing with the gravitas of horror classics like Egg Monsters From Mars and Secret Agent Grandma!
Another trailer, this one is a bit better as I did laugh actually.
Forsaken82
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You must never have read the books... they are meant for kids... they aren't scary.
friskykillface
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Trailer was meh but it's for kids so it'll get a PG rating , smh when that pop song came on, will watch it with my little cousins I guess
We need superior afraid of the dark with Zeebo , grinner, dr vink with a va va the God , that human doll thing from the basement music episode to be in a movie
Let's get afraid of the dark x goosebumps wars back on
We need superior afraid of the dark with Zeebo , grinner, dr vink with a va va the God , that human doll thing from the basement music episode to be in a movie
Let's get afraid of the dark x goosebumps wars back on
To be fair the tv show did have a dark tone even if it wasn't that scary. The show also wasn't a comedy either like this movie will be.
ITT: a bunch of grown adults complain that a movie based on a book series for kids isn't scary looking.
The books were never really scary, I don't know why some of you are expecting some kind of rated R shit from the movie. Looks like a fun movie for kids, like Jumanji as a someone above said
The books were never really scary, I don't know why some of you are expecting some kind of rated R shit from the movie. Looks like a fun movie for kids, like Jumanji as a someone above said
You know what, I actually forgot about how many of them do use that twist, haha.
Who is expecting this to be R rated like? It's Goosebumps, that would kill the movie if anything since it's meant for kids. I expect no higher than PG for a movie like this.
Gambit 1138
Banned
Yeah lol, what did you people expect?
Actually it's probably the best way to go about doing this kind of thing. It might even be nostalgia for some people seeing all those monsters in live action again.
Ninja Scooter
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Hollywood going hard after that 90s kid demo, aren't they? We getting a live action Doug movie next?
I guess none of you have seen the TV show?
The show was scary(at least, tonally speaking, that was its intent). I was expecting something more in line with that instead of an action flick, and evidently I'm not the only one.
StormyTheRabbit
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Dunno, I'm not saying make it R rated...but you could at least try to make it somewhat of a children's horror film...because you know...thats what the books are literally about.
This literally has zero resemblance to the books at all, minus a few characters being in it.
Theres clearly a problem if seeing Slappy the Dummy doesn't freak you out.
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