Tag: Goosebumps
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This ‘Goosebumps’ Episode Is ‘An American Werewolf in Paris’ for Kids
Many kids at an early age are introduced to the horror genre from scary bedtime stories and horror movies. The popular middle-grade book series, Goosebumps, written by renowned author R.L. Stine, is a perfect entryway for kids to explore more of the horror genre. Stine’s campy horror books were adapted into a television series in…
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October TV Preview: 22 New Shows to Watch
October might be a season for thrills and chills, but at least one fear in Hollywood can be laid to temporary rest: The Writers Guild of America and AMPTP came to an agreement on September 24. Writers rooms will resume and SAG-AFTRA is set to return to the negotiating table and hopefully finalize a deal…
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The New Goosebumps Show Looks Like They’re Finally Getting The Books Right
One of the many shameful losses during the (not so) great Disney+ purge of 2023 was “Just Beyond,” the anthology series based on R.L. Stine’s graphic novel property of the same name. Created by Seth Grahame-Smith (“Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter“), the genre-blending show is probably the closest anyone’s come to creating a worthy tween-friendly successor…
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‘Goosebumps’ Series Trailer Is a Spooky Mix of Nostalgia and Thrills
From co-creators Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller comes Goosebumps, a new television adaptation of the popular series of horror novels for children written by R.L. Stine. The new series follows a group of five high schoolers on a “shadowy and twisted” journey to investigate the mysterious passing of a teen named Harold Biddle three decades…
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‘Zombie Town’ Trailer Sets Spooky Release Date for R.L. Stine Adaptation
In the YA horror space there’s no author as beloved as R.L. Stine. Best known for his critically acclaimed Goosebumps series, the author has been scaring genre fans of all ages for the last three decades. Now Stine’s latest adaptation Zombie Town just received its spooky first trailer which has revealed that the film starring…
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How a Midwest Teacher Went From Posting Scary Stories on Reddit to a Film Deal for His Debut Novel
Jimmy Juliano’s debut novel, “Dead Eleven,” has an unusual backstory.The book, out Tuesday, is a spooky tale of a remote island where inhabitants are obsessed with ’90s nostalgia, which earned a coveted jacket blurb from “Goosebumps” guru R. L. Stine and already has a film development deal with A+E Studios. But Juliano is the first…
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Underrated ‘Goosebumps’ Episodes to Bring Back Your Inner ’90s Kid
Goosebumps’ strange relationship with home media over the years has made it so that fans of the show will likely have seen some episodes much more than others. A select group of titles, including “The Haunted Mask” and “Stay Out of the Basement,” got VHS releases back in the late ‘90s, but this left viewers…
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The Haunted Mask is Goosebumps’ Finest Hour
R.L. Stine’s children’s horror book series Goosebumps was an uncontainable hit in the ‘90s. Kids all over the world were reading the books, it was breaking records, and to this day is the second bestselling book series of all time after Harry Potter. It was so wildly successful that when a TV series was pitched,…
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What’s Leaving Netflix in November 2022
Netflix is looking to have a huge month with a new season of The Crown, the highly anticipated series Wednesday, and new films like Enola Holmes 2 and Slumberland, but like all months, there will also be a handful of titles that will be leaving the service, at least for now. Fan-favorite movies like Clueless…
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Goosebumps Heads Back To TV With A New Live-Action Series At Disney+
There’s no end in sight for the R.L. Stine renaissance, as Disney+ has now ordered a 10-episode “Goosebumps” streaming series. A trilogy of films based on Stine’s “Fear Street” books made a big splash (or knife slash) on Netflix last summer, while Seth Grahame-Smith brought Stine’s “Just Beyond” graphic novels to Disney+ with an anthology series…