#Film review: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

Film review #587

Director: Ari Sandel

SYNOPSIS: Teenager Sarah Quinn is struggling to write an essay for her college application. Meanwhile, her brother and his friend find a mysterious book at an abandoned house, which when opened releases Slappy, an evil dummy, to appear. Slappy is more than just a dummy though; he is alive, and sets about unleashing all sorts of monsters just in time for Halloween. It's up to Sarah and her brother (and his friend) to stop Slappy before he unleashes pure chaos on the town...

THOUGHTS/ANALYSIS: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is a 2018 film and a sequel to the 2015 film Goosebumps, based on the series of horror stories written by R.L. Stine. Set three years after the first film and in a different location, we see teenager Sarah Quinn trying to write her college essay, but is constantly distracted by her Mother wanting to babysit her brother and his friend, who is stopping with them over Halloween. The plot revolves around Slappy, the evil dummy who was the villain the previous film, being released from one of R.L. Stine's unfinished books, and does what he does best: unleashes monsters and horrors of all sorts to terrorise the town, leaving Sarah and the others to stop him. The plot is very similar to the first film, but while the first one managed to offer a twist that made things interesting with the Goosebumps books themselves forming part of the story, here that little unique twist is absent. The film revolves around an unfinished story by R.L. Stine called "Haunted Halloween," which apparently was an early book that was very rough and unfinished, so the monsters that are unleashed have that feeling of being unpolished. This does, however, have the feeling of making the film also rough and incomplete, with the story feeling very weak and uninspired. There's certainly a way to make the premise work without it bleeding into the quality of the film itself, but as it stands, the film ends up being feeling underdeveloped, and desperate in needing a good rewrite or two.

The characters are all fairly unremarkable: while the first film was the same, it had Jack Black as R.L. Stine to bring everyone together and inject enough energy to keep things interesting. Here, we get no such thing: Jack Black does appear in a scene halfway through and at the end to somewhat explain everything, but in teasing him in this way without actually doing anything probably hurts the film more than anything. While Jack Black was such a prominent role in the first film, here, it would probably have been better if he wasn't in it at all, if all he does is show up at the end and explain everything, leaving a feeling of disappointment you're not going to see him do anything interesting. The whole subplot about Slappy wanting a family wasn't something that was a part of the first film, so it just feel like it comes out of nowhere, and doesn't further his character in any way. Overall, Goosebumps 2 is a very unpolished film that fails to get going in any way: the enjoyable elements of the first film are gone and we are left with a predictable, low-stakes story that offers nothing that the previous film didn't.

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

Slappy escapes once again and attempts to create his own family by bringing Halloween to life.

 This felt different to the first film because there was a longer build-up which was focused much more on the development of the main characters and they got some time alone with Slappy before all the other monsters joined the plot and made it crowded. This made him a more effective villain and allowed the audience to invest with the characters more easily.

 The monsters weren’t as cool as the ones from the first film because they were just the basic Halloween clichés rather than all the iconic ones from the Goosebumps books. They also all seemed rather similar in terms of their abilities; the only notable ones were the gummy bears, witches, the jack-o-lanterns, and Slappy himself.

 It was good that Jack Black got a cameo because it would have felt too disconnected from the first one if he had been left out altogether. The main actors were able to hold the narrative together reasonably well and their interaction with the different monsters was interesting enough. There was a little reference to The Haunted Mask but it just became another henchman which was a little disappointing.

 The film could have leaned a little further into the horror genre and gotten away with it because there were times where the comedy got a little too much control and depleted the plot partially. It was also never explained why Slappy has a load of random powers in this one that he never bothers to use in the previous ones, TV series, or books.

 3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

 -R.L.Stine makes a cameo as the presenter of the science award near the end of the film.

-The extra part of the title was originally to be Horrorland, it was then changed to Slappy’s Revenge, until it finally became Haunted Halloween.

-The costumes the kids wear before the finale are a skeleton, witch, and jack-o-lantern. This is a reference to the three kinds of cursed masks in Halloween 3: Season of the Witch (1982).

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

I had a hard weekend. Wife and I foster dogs through our local animal shelter, and we have had the sweetest, most loving hospice foster for the past week. But the last couple days were really difficult for her, and it was clear her time was growing short, so we made the decision and brought her in to put her to sleep today. After we dried our tears and pulled ourselves together, we both needed a distraction so she did some work while I, obviously, went to the movies. But I wanted something that I could pretty much guarantee wouldn’t make me cry, and if you have been reading my reviews you know that’s uh...more difficult than you would think. This is a roundabout way of saying I’d like to take a minute so just sit right there, I’ll tell you how I became the only solo adult in a Sunday night showing of Goosebumps 2.

I didn’t hate the first Goosebumps, I really didn’t. I like kooky and paternal Jack Black as R.L. Stine, the basic premise is pretty sound, and there’s some very PG-friendly spookiness wrapped up in a blaring technicolor CGI package. I mean, I see the movies for free so...I have a pretty generous spirit. That being said, this sequel felt a little more gimmicky, a little less interesting, and a lot more money-motivated than its predecessor so I was verrrry skeptical. Does this one even live up to the mediocrity of the original? Well...

Meh? It feels a lot like the clearance aisle of CVS on November 1st. There’s some decent Halloween treats in there, but they feel a little bit stale and very cheap. The basic plot is pretty perfunctory: Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor, aka Ben from IT) and his friend Sam (Caleel Harris) find R.L. Stine’s first novel locked away in his old house, so they open it and unleash hell on earth which is how it’s supposed to work based on the internal rules of the first movie Slappy, the ventriloquist dummy. THEN they have to say some Latin-y phrase and Slappy comes to life! He wants to create his own family, and to do that he’s going to bring all of Halloween to life. Because in this movie, Halloween is made up of material objects and not an intangible concept like a unit or time or a cultural ritual made up of certain performative practices. 

Some thoughts:

The film’s weakness is just a general lack of thought or care about the rules of its own world-building. Nothing feels very high stakes because it’s all so...silly. Call me old-fashioned, but I grew up on classic Disney. Gaston was a rapey abuser, Aladdin faced off against a gigantic fire snake, and Mufasa DIED ffs. I want my peril to feel, you know, fucking perilous! Here, the most fraught thing that happens is when Slappy turns the kids’ mom into his own mom by making her look like a ventriloquist dummy. It just doesn’t have the same punch. 

See also: jokes that make no sense. A punch line at the end of a classroom scene has a girl who’s been electrified as a result of a science experiment gone wrong. She has the crazy bushed out hair and smoke marks all over her face and clothes, and she cries, “Today is picture day!” Um. Excuse the fuck out of me, but I can literally see a girl with her face painted like a tiger right behind you, and there are other students in the classroom wearing costumes. For the purposes of your lazy ass joke, you want to act like picture day is on actual Halloween? Also, writers, you’re telling me there’s not a better laugh line for that scene? CHICANEROUS and DEPLORABLE.

See also: You have an antagonist that you know can teleport. Your solution is to put him in a suitcase with chains around it and drop it in a lake. Do you...like are you guys even trying? I’m so embarrassed for you.

See also: a big turning point in the movie is the kids figuring out that the plot of the book they found is coming to life. But if the novel is unpublished and has been locked up for 30 years, how does Wikipedia know what the plot is? At this point it feels like you’re doing this shit to me on purpose. 

See also: How did that Grandma not wake up????? You make a big show of the fact that she almost woke up when Sam grabbed some candy from a bowl, but then plates are flying, gummy bears are attacking, and nothing?

Ok, now for some actually not so terrible things. I still love Jack Black as Stine, but he gets far too little screen time here because he was busy filming the far superior The House With a Clock in Its Walls. 

This is the second movie I’ve seen this week where a girl goes to a dance, sees the boy she’s dating kiss someone else, and runs away crying. That boy is no longer relevant or involved in her life after that, because instead she goes to focus on her family and her own goals. Maybe my favorite part of the ripple effect that #MeToo and Time’s Up is creating is that movies - even kids’ movies - are making it clear that girls don’t have to tolerate shitty boys being shitty. That boyfriends aren’t everything, and having a boyfriend isn’t the necessary default setting of adolescence. And most of all, we no longer have to devote any screen time to a crying girl saying “I was so stupid!” or “Why doesn’t he like me?” because we’re just now getting to a point where we can accept that girls deserve better than the bare fucking minimum of human decency masquerading as A Good Boyfriend.

I did dig the actual R.L. Stine cameo as he was giving the science award in the end.

I will say, sometimes in the middle of mediocrity, one really dumb funny thing will appear out of nowhere, and for me it was a super dumb pumpkin that was carved really clumsily, and when he came to life, he said “Hi! My name is Pumpkin. I’m round!” I’m still laughing about this, and I’m not sure why.

The performances are fine, and the message is fine, and seeing all the trappings of Halloween coming to life and rampaging on a town is fine. It’s all fine. However, if you have to choose a silly, spooky kids’ movie starring Jack Black to attend this Halloween season, you’re much better off choosing The House With a Clock in Its Walls.

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Hello Tumblr, I do apologise I said I would complete my reviews and then I never came back, oops!

So to set the record straight here we go….

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween was a feel good family film, with cheesy jokes and cheesy visuals, basically one of those films you put on for the kids and see snippets of because the rest of it doesn’t really make sense. So I viewed this on Halloween which made it seem better but that was probably the effects of the holiday, you want cheesy spooks to get you in the mood.

What annoys me is they didn’t credit Jack Black. Jack Black was very visibly in it, and he even voiced Slappy the Dummy, which makes me happy due to the rumours he wasn’t in it at all but I still feel he deserved a mention.

I feel like having a whole new cast was a bold move and one that worked, but  this film just seems like it was better suited as an original tv movie on nickelodeon rather than a cinematic spectacular. It just seemed like a waste of talent because the acting was brilliant but the story let it down and you could tell it was low budget, by all means low budgets normally produce the best stories but this was not the case.

The gummy monsters were fun, the dummy was fun, the superstore full of monsters was a nice touch it just didn’t hold any magic which was a shame, as although the first film wasnt *that* great it was still far better as a Stine adaptation.

Overall I give Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween a 5/10, it wasn’t terrible but for something that wasn’t a straight to dvd movie it should have been a lot better.

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018)

It’s shaping to be a good Halloween for kids. First, The House with a Clock in its Walls delivered some good, chilling fun and just 2 weeks later, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween comes out! The film is (once again) too spooky for kids under 7 but those who enjoyed the first picture will be amused by this sequel.

While rummaging through an old house, Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and Sam (Caleel Harris) discover an unpublished manuscript by legendary horror writer R.L. Stine (Jack Black). Out of it emerges the Dummy Slappy (this time voiced by Mick Wingert instead of Black), who seeks to create a family for himself by bringing Halloween to life. As decorations comes to life and run amock, the two best friends and Sonny’s sister, Sarah (Madison Iseman) are their small town’s only hope.

Haunted Halloween captures the spirit of the books and the television series. It contains mild scares as series favourite Slappy cackles maniacally while candy bags and jack-o’-lanterns attack the kids who aren’t being chased by skeletons, witches and mummies. It’s nothing that’ll frighten adults but those who are nostalgic for the books will enjoy looking among the crowds to pick out the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, Werewolf of Fever Swamp, and a few others. For the most part, however, it doesn’t feature that many cameos. That’s ok, we saw that in 2015 and the book the creatures are coming from predates the Goosebumps series. I’m still puzzled by the absence of Monster Blood, however.

This is an elongated episode of the show that contains the false scares who will make you chuckle as well as a number of family-friendly jokes, courtesy of Slappy. The film is like the series both for better, and for worse. The bullies who confront Sonny and Sam, for example, are generic and more plot devices than characters. Similarly, there are a couple of spots where the film could’ve been written smarter and I lament The Invisible Boy, who made an “appearance” at the tail end of the first film not returning. Twist endings that aren’t followed-up on in the sequels is kind of a trademark of the series but it’s a missed opportunity.

While Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween isn’t extraordinary in terms of writing or filmmaking and isn’t as good as the first, I can foresee it becoming a staple. It’d be the kind of thing you’d watch with the kids every other year while decorations are put up and costumes are being stitched together. It isn’t as good as the first but I’m sure children will have a good time with it. If you do see it, there’s a bit of an extra something at the end of the credits, so keep an ear out. (Theatrical version on the big screen, October 13, 2018) 

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The name R.L. Stine is probably most linked to ‘Goosebumps‘, with the books he wrote, the 90s TV series, the TV films and the cinematic films Goosebumps (2015) and Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018). However, it seems Stine’s other book series ‘Fear Street’ was almost forgotten about, the book series much like ‘Goosebumps‘ were horror tales but these were more for the teen audience. To see…

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Movie Review: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Movie Review: Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

critic’s rating:  3.0/5

Children are quite fascinated by the horror genre. Their curiosity makes them seek out things which their parents prohibit them to. Author RL Stine’s books are mostly considered safe passage to introduce kids to the genre and it’s…

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Goosebumps 2 Review

I liked the new Goosebumps film a lot, but I did feel like it fell a little short of the first film. I think it’s that a few characters could’ve been more fully utilized and the frights could’ve been scarier, but it wasn’t enough to hamper the fun I had watching it. 

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I liked the new cast! Madison Iseman (Sarah) was great and very likable as a very different type of teenager than she played in Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle, which was a nice surprise. I definitely expected her brother Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and his best friend Sam (Caleel Harris) to drive the movie with her being dragged along as an annoying older sister, but that wasn't the case at all. She has agency, we know what she wants out of life, and her arc is all about achieving those goals. It’s true that her quest to find something to write about for her college essay was a little cliché, but I liked that the adventure the film takes her on gives her more than an essay: it gives her a career. She also gets to be an active player in the climax, which was great. One of my few notes about the first movie was that while Stine's (Jack Black) daughter wasn't passive or a damsel exactly, she also didn't offer many ideas when she easily could've instead of the guys. Goosebumps has never been afraid to feature kids regardless of their gender or race, so it was awesome to see that continue with Sarah being so active here.

Sonny & Sam felt like true Goosebumps protagonists and I liked how Sonny’s science experiments and knowledge played into Slappy’s plot (making Slappy something of a twist on Sonny’s personality too, just like he’s Stine’s dark side). Sonny, Sam, and Sarah's problems being solved (initially) by Slappy felt like the first act of a classic Goosebumps novel (and the bully they boys were dealing with (Peyton Wich) felt like he was pulled right from those books), while all three kids readily accepting that Slappy was in fact a living dummy was a nice and realistic beat given what they’d seen. I liked both Sam and Sonny, but it would’ve been nice if Sam had more to do: after his moving/cleaning business gets them to Slappy and Sarah’s brought into the loop, it felt like he faded into the background somewhat. Maybe this is just because Sonny’s technological skills and Sarah’s growing writer identity were more integral to the ongoing plot, but I wish Sam had a role to play in the climax that was specific to him as well. Of the characters that weren’t used to their full potential, his felt like the biggest loss.

Wendi Mclendon-Covey was great as Sarah & Sonny's mother Kathy and I thought she brought a perfect awkward/embarrassing yet caring "mom" vibe to the role. Chris Parnell’s Walter, possessed by the iconic Haunted Mask, was unfortunately underwhelming. He got a few funny lines and I liked his awkward chemistry with Kathy, but didn't the mask in the book make the wearer meaner, not sillier? Mr. Chu (Ken Jeong) was a fun character, but I feel like they could've done more with him, particularly his excitement to be living a Goosebumps story. Send him out into the chaos to casually soak it in while everyone else is running and screaming in terror or something! I thought it was a little odd he had so much time to make the kids costumes in the middle of the crisis, but I guess the existing costumes might've been brought to life, so maybe there's internal logic to them not just using pre-made disguises (ultimately it doesn’t bother me either way, though). 

I liked Jack Black's return as RL Stine here (though I wish he also voiced Slappy again, even if Mick Wingert sounds enough like Black’s Slappy for it to not be jarring at all). Stine worked really well as a mentor/inspiration to Sarah, even though he didn’t have a lot of screentime (they definitely made the most of his time here). His return to his hometown—forcing him to face his monsters in the place that created so many of them for him—was well done (if not elaborated on). More of that definitely would’ve been appreciated, but I’m content with what they did give us. I'm also definitely down to follow the story where Slappy leaves it, with Stine locked in Slappy’s book (also making the dummy a dark mirror for Sarah, if they want). Maybe Stine's been put into Horrorland? If they're about to take us into the world of Goosebumps after letting it invade the real world twice now, I'm all for that! It would be awesome if the younger casts of both movies teamed up to save RL Stine and wrap up this trilogy! He does have a daughter who used to be a character in one of his books; combine that unique experience with Sarah taking up the writer torch and I think we’ve got a rescue party forming.

I liked that this felt like a lost Goosebumps story (whereas the first movie was more of a meta-celebration of the franchise) and Slappy’s twisted desire for a family worked really well for me. He’s a great villain and forcing people to be his family was a nice, understated tie back to his implied status as Stine's evil alter ego (Stine himself having been a lonely kid according to the first movie). I wish they’d played that up more, though. Using Slappy's incantation to bring all the Goosebumps monsters to life was a fun twist on the lore and made it feel like a sequel to “Night of the Living Dummy.” Slappy using Nikola Tesla's technology to achieve his goals was a nice touch too…and a possible reflection of Stine and his status as an ignored genius in comparison to his rival Stephen King (this features a great IT joke, btw!)? As for the rest of the Goosebumps monsters, it’s always nice to see them, but aside from being recognizable as the franchise’s villains, these monsters could’ve been any thugs. If they’re going to keep bringing every monster in, I’d like to see more Goosebumps-y twists on the classics with defined abilities and unique scares instead of mobs of essentially interchangeable creatures. The ravenous gummy bears were a real threat, but also a lot of fun (and cute!); they’re a good example of an original Goosebumps twist on monsters. I did like that these monsters seemed to be mostly practical costumes/makeup rather than CGI creations this time out.

I think the biggest drawback was the same as in the first movie: I wish these films were more concerned with putting more actual scares on the screen. Slappy does get a bunch of creepy moments, though, and Kathy has an extremely unsettling moment as a human ventriloquist dummy, but I wish it had gone on longer and/or amounted to more. The Goosebumps books and TV episodes had actual thrills and scares alongside Stine’s humor, so I wish the movies would dip their toes in frights just as much as they exist in the “horror adventure” space. Despite me wanting more scares, however, the comedy here landed more often than not and there's no denying that it's a great time at the movies.

I love Danny Elfman's theme and score, but I do wish they'd include the TV show's theme song at some point in this franchise too. The CGI was really good: there was only one shot that looked a little dodgy (when the pumpkins took flight), but otherwise I thought it was convincing. While not explicitly scary, there is a fun spooky vibe here that makes for an enjoyable watch. The pacing’s also on point and moves the story along at a brisk pace.

Goosebumps 2 is out in Blu-ray this week and I'll definitely be picking it up! I'm excited to see it again and it's definitely worth a watch if you're looking for a fun Halloween adventure. Whatever they do for the next movie, I love this series and hope it continues!

Check out more of my reviews, opinions, and original short stories here!  

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A little bit of my positive view of the first movie (Goosebumps), a little bit of the summer and the lunch relaxation that finds you with the remote control in hand and between sleeping and waking up, looking at the TV for something that can take you further to the first, I said to click Play on this Netflix option here, even if it didn't really fill my eye. I may not have fallen asleep as well as I had hoped, but that does not mean that the power of the film kept me from falling into the arms of Morpheus. I just was not so tired!

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My 118 in 2018 (goal achieved)

I did it! I achieved my goal of #118in2018 and I wanted to take this time to reflect on my cinematic journey over the past 365 days. 

Here are the absolute worst films I saw this year in which I hated every second and wanted to die. These are in chronological order rather than rank but honestly I think everyone knows Life Itself was the most truly, epically abysmal thing I saw this year. These are also some of my best reviews so like - you should really check those out (links below).

Phantom Thread

The Maze Runner: The Death Cure

Winchester

Early Man

Tyler Perry’s Acrimony

I Feel Pretty

Life of the Party

Life Itself

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Suspiria

Here are my favorite/the best films I saw this year. These ARE ranked, roughly, and usually are a combination of technically astonishing while also being entertaining, engaging, and rich in emotion and complexity.

Black Panther

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse

Eighth Grade

Annihilation

Paddington 2

A Quiet Place

Three Identical Strangers

Sorry to Bother You

A Star is Born

First Man

And here are the movies I thought I was gonna like only ok but actually loved beyond belief. They may not be the BEST, but they were among the most entertaining and endearing that I saw all year - the sleeper hits, if you will. Real salt of the earth stuff that you can happily spend a Saturday night with from Redbox. These are ranked in order of how surprised I was that I loved them this much.

The Hurricane Heist

Blockers

Den of Thieves

Upgrade

Alpha

Overlord

Venom

Christopher Robin

The House With a Clock in Its Walls

Widows

Anna and the Apocalypse

Love, Simon

For those of you interested in the performance of the blog, here are my top 10 posts in terms of engagement as of 12/31/2018 (people really love to talk about horror movies!):

Hereditary (499 notes)

A Quiet Place (458)

Widows (203)

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse (200)

Sorry to Bother You (145)

Blockers (110)

The Nun (106)

Halloween (106)

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (86)

Christopher Robin (81)

And finally, here is the list of all 119 movies I viewed in theaters along with links to all the reviews. Thank you to everyone who read, followed, liked, reblogged, subscribed, or otherwise helped with this journey. I love you all - here’s to #119in2019!

The Greatest Showman - seen 01/02/18 with Fiancee

All the Money in the World - seen 01/03/18 with Pug Girl

Insidious: The Last Key - seen 01/06/18 with Fiancee and Owl Friend

I, Tonya - seen 01/08/18 with Fiancee

The Post - seen 01/16/18 with Fiancee

Proud Mary - seen 01/18/18 with Sleepy Gay

Paddington 2 - seen 01/21/18 solo

The Commuter - seen 01/22/18 with Fiancee

Call Me By Your Name - seen 01/25/18 with Fiancee

Phantom Thread - seen 01/27/18 with Fiancee

Den of Thieves - seen 01/28/18 with Sleepy Gay

The Maze Runner: The Death Cure - seen 01/31/18 with Owl Friend

Winchester - seen 02/01/18 with Fiancee and Pug Girl

Hostiles - seen 02/10/18 solo

Peter Rabbit - seen 02/10/18 solo

Fifty Shades Freed - seen 02/11/18 with Fiancee

Black Panther - seen 02/15/18 with Sleepy Gay and Owl Friend

Annihilation - seen 02/25/18 solo

Game Night - seen 02/26/18 with Fiancee

Death Wish - seen 03/2/18 with Sleepy Gay

Early Man - seen 03/04/18 solo

Every Day - seen 03/06/18 with Fiancee

The Hurricane Heist - seen 03/09/18 with Pug Girl

The Strangers: Prey at Night - seen 03/10/18 with Fiancee

Gringo - seen 03/11/18 with Owl Friend

Thoroughbreds - seen 03/12/18 with Fiancee

Love, Simon - seen 03/17/2018 with Fiancee

A Wrinkle in Time - seen 03/18/2018 solo

Red Sparrow - seen 03/18/2018 with Pug Girl

Unsane - seen 03/26/2018 with WIFE

Flower - seen 03/30/2018 with Wife

Pacific Rim: Uprising - seen 3/31/2018 solo

Ready Player One - seen 04/02/2018 with The Writer

A Quiet Place - seen -04/05/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

Blockers - seen 04/08/2018 with Wife

Tyler Perry’s Acrimony - seen 04/11/2018 with Wife

Truth or Dare - seen 04/13/2018 with Wife, Owl Friend, Sleepy Gay, and Pug Girl

I Feel Pretty - seen 04/22/2018 with Wife

Rampage - seen 04/24/2018 with The Writer

Avengers: Infinity War - seen 04/26/2018 with Sleepy Gay, Owl Friend, Pug Girl, The Photographer, The Knitter, and The Guy Who’s Read the Comics

Isle of Dogs - seen 04/29/2018 solo

Tully - seen 05/08/2018 with Wife

Overboard - seen 05/10/2018 with Owl Friend

RBG - seen 05/11/2018 with Sleepy Gay

Bad Samaritan - seen 05/12/2018 with Pug Girl

Chappaquiddick - seen 05/12/2018 solo

Life of the Party - seen 05/16/2018 with Wife

Disobedience - seen 05/20/2018 with Wife

Deadpool 2 - seen 05/21/2018 with Sleepy Gay

Breaking In - seen 05/24/2018 with Wife

Solo - seen 05/27/2018 with Owl Friend

Book Club - seen 05/30/2018 solo

The Producers (1968) - seen 06/03/18 with Wife

Action Point - seen 06/04/18 with Wife

Upgrade - seen 06/06/18 with Pug Girl

Hereditary - seen 06/07/18 with Wife and Pug Girl

Ocean’s 8 - seen 06/09/18 with Wife

Hotel Artemis - seen 06/13/2018 with Owl Friend and Sleepy Gay

Tag - seen 06/14/2018 with Wife

Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom - seen 06/20/2018 with Pug Girl, The Writer, and The AMC Queen

Won’t You Be My Neighbor? - seen 06/30/2018 with Wife

The First Purge - seen 07/03/2018 with Pug Girl, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

The Incredibles 2 - seen 07/04/2018 solo

Ant Man and the Wasp - seen 07/05/2018 with The Writer

Uncle Drew - seen 07/07/2018 solo

Three Identical Strangers - seen 07/15/2018 with Wife

Hotel Transylvania 3 - seen 07/15/2018 solo

Sorry to Bother You - seen 07/16/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

Skyscraper - seen 07/18/2018 with Sleepy Gay

Unfriended: Dark Web - seen 07/23/2018 with Wife and Pug Girl

Mission: Impossible - Fallout - seen 07/25/2018 with Pug Girl, The Writer, and The AMC Queen

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again - seen 08/01/2018 with Wife

Eighth Grade - seen 08/06/2018 with Wife

Slender Man - seen 08/09/2018 with Wife

BlacKkKlansman - seen 08/10/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, Pug Girl, and Owl Friend

Christopher Robin - seen 08/11/2018 solo

The Meg - seen 08/12/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

Alpha - seen 08/25/2018 solo

Crazy Rich Asians - seen 08/25/2018 with Sleepy Gay, Pug Girl, and Owl Friend

Searching - seen 08/31/2018 with Wife

Juliet, Naked - seen 09/06/2018 with Wife

The Nun - seen 09/08/2018 with Wife

Destination Wedding - seen 09/10/2018 with Wife

A Simple Favor - seen 09/14/2018 with Wife

The Predator - seen 09/18/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

Lizzie - seen 09/26/2018 with Wife

Hell Fest - seen 09/27/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, Pug Girl, and Owl Friend

Life Itself - seen 09/29/2018 with Wife

Assassination Nation - seen 09/29/2018 with Wife

Smallfoot - seen 09/30/2018 with Sleepy Gay

The Wife - seen 09/30/2018 with Wife

Night School - seen 10/08/2018 with Pug Girl

A Star is Born - seen 10/09/2018 with Wife and Sleepy Gay

Venom - seen 10/14/2018 with Pug Girl

The House With a Clock In Its Walls - seen 10/15/2018 solo

Bad Times at the El Royale - seen 10/18/2018 with Wife, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend

Halloween - seen 10/19/2018 with Wife and Owl Friend

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween - seen 10/21/2018 solo

The Old Man and the Gun - seen 10/22/2018 solo

Colette - seen 10/23/2018 with Wife

First Man - seen 10/25/2018 solo

Johnny English Strikes Again - seen 10/28/2018 solo

The Hate U Give - seen 10/30/2018 with Wife

Bohemian Rhapsody - seen 11/02/2018 with Wife and Owl Friend

The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - seen 11/03/2018 with Wife

Suspiria - seen 11/03/2018 with Wife

Overlord - seen 11/12/2018 with Sleepy Gay, Owl Friend, and Pug Girl

Can You Ever Forgive Me? - seen 11/17/2018 with Wife

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - seen 11/18/2018 with Wife and Pug Girl

Widows - seen 11/20/2018 with Wife

Boy Erased - seen 11/26/2018 with Wife and Mother-In-Law

The Possession of Hannah Grace - seen 12/01/2018 with Wife

Ralph Breaks the Internet - seen 12/02/2018 with Wife

Robin Hood - seen 12/03/2018 with Pug Girl

The Grinch - seen 12/09/2018 solo

Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - seen 12/14/2018 with Wife

The Favourite - seen 12/15/2018 with Wife and Dad

Anna and the Apocalypse - seen 12/17/2018 with Wife, Pug Girl, Sleepy Gay, and Owl Friend - 118th MOVIE, 2018 GOAL MET

Mary Poppins Returns - seen 12/22/2018 with Wife and Mother-in-Law

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Halloween movies must watch 2018

Halloween is often remembered as the devil festival, on this day it would be uninteresting if you do not have a small experience of fear. However, the combination of gloom, horror, and humor is a good idea for Halloween, both the characteristics of the festival and bring laughter to give the audience a relaxed. most comfortable during this holiday. Here is a list of the horror and horror films Halloween theme. You can hardly leave the fruit in the 'Pumpkin Festival' every year. For the upcoming Halloween 2018, invite your friends to review the movie series on this subject:

1. Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

The film was released on October 13, 1993, by director Henry Selick of the horror film genre. Nightmare Before Christmas is not exactly a horror film, but it also has a lot of humor and humor in it when it comes to Jack Skellington, Prince of the Town of Halloween, with loneliness and emptiness in his soul.

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As a skeleton man in noble clothes, he sneaks out of his whereabouts to find the Christmas town. That's lovely, but there are scenes that make kids shiver at Jack's Halloween Town, where he kidnaps Santa Claus that is filled with bizarre ghosts, including kids who play balloons with their heads. the skeleton danceAuto.

2. Coraline (2009)

This is a film directed by Henry Selick was released on February 5, 2009. Animated feature films include Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Preeya Kalidas. Adapted from a famous children's novel of the same name, Coraline before is a work many viewers are looking forward to theaters.

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However, unlike the image of a loving family movie, Coraline can make young viewers afraid of drowning in the climax. The horror of the film lies in the ghost image, the horror of the villain and many mysterious happenings. It can be said, Henry Sellick's strange work is like a powerful medicine that brings us into the multiform world of his brain, along with the real lessons of gratitude as well. the value of the family.Current Time.

3. Goosebumps (2015)

Goosebumps is one of the three American films in the genre of humorous humor directed by Rob Letterman. Based on RL Stine's famous horror title of the same name, the film will feature a series of famous monsters from the neck of the preeminent features: snowman, ghost wolf, giant beetle, zombies, witches ... resurrected from a mysterious book.

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The movie will be "lighter" than the rest of the team because the horror element is moderate but Goosebumps will mix elements of humor, action, and mythology ... Along with the presence of comedian Jack Black will play Stine, along with young actors such as Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush and Ryan Lee.

4. Monster House (2006)

If compared to the Disney animated films or Dreamworks, the director's Monster House by Gil Kenan is actually a work beyond the traditional formula. It's unusual from the CGI style of the frame to the voice actors Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kathleen Turner, and Jason Lee.

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In addition, the content of the movie not only revolves around a haunted house, but it is a monster house ready to swallow everything going through it. Despite the look of a children's play, Monster House also offers a terrific atmosphere to enjoy at Halloween.

5. Corpse Bride (2005)

This is a comedy film directed by Mike Johnson and Tim Burton, released in 2005. It features Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse. The film tells the story of an oops when groom Victor (Depp) accidentally awakened female corpses.

On her return, Emily (Carter) believes she has married Victor and this "corpse bride" has caused a lot of resentment for this shy son-in-law. Corpse Bride was a triumph for Tim Burton, whose $ 117 million grossed three times the cost of Warner Bros. Pictures. have left.

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At the 2006 Oscars, the film also featured in the nominees for "Best Animated Feature". If you are worried about scary scenes, scary horror movies, Corpse Bride is not a bad choice to experience this Halloween.

6. The Babadook (2014)

Amelia's mother, a few years after the sudden death of her husband, had trouble raising his six-year-old son Sam when he was constantly talking about a mysterious creature clinging to both mother and child.

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Then one day in their house appeared a book titled "Mr. Babadook" about a horrible creature as if he was a snake. When Amelia reads Sam to the book every night, it seems that Babadook is slowly coming out of the pages and the threat from it also comes true. And that's where the horrors of the Amelia family's past have begun to unfold.

7. Let the right one in (2008)

Set in 1982, in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, the film "Let the Right One" based on the novel of the same name, revolves around two-year-old Oskar and a romantic friendship between him and her. baby 'vampire.

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One of the highlights of this film is the impressive image of a snow-covered Stockholm suburb. Contrast technology is also used very skillfully: the bloodshed on the snow is very beautiful and impressive. The film convinced moviegoers and critics, winning many international awards, became one of the most watched vampire films ever.

8. The Addams Family (1991)

Not too scary for young children, but not too shallow for adults, The Addams Family by director Barry Sonnenfeld is what makes Halloween complete. Deep in the movie is a bit dark, something a little silly, and a bit funny makes the kids laugh, but it also makes adults stop and think.

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9. The Conjuring (2013)

Based on real events in the United States in the 1970s, The Conjuring revolves around the diabolical psychopath husband Ed and Lorraine Warren. In their careers, they have investigated more than 10,000 cases, but the story they will never forget is the Perron family case in Harrisville in 1971.

When the couple Roger and Carolyn and their five daughters moved to the new farm, many strange things happened.

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Annabelle's fearsome doll in the movie is so popular that producers have to make this character a personal movie, it's hard to find the fun in this work but if it's not a Great loss for Halloween buy if you want to feel a little something characteristic of this festival.

10. It (2017)  

And lastly, the movie has recently hit theaters, shedding up countless numbers and officially becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time in North America.

Based on the famous novel of the same name by writer Stephen King. The story revolves around a group of seven little friends who call themselves "The Losers Club" with Pennywise jester in the town of Derry, Maine in the summer of 1989.

The film gives scary, frightening views to the viewer, but there are also humorous dialogues between the Losers boys. With what it has shown, it deserves to be a heavyweight candidate for the follow-up to Halloween this year.

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Then one day in their house appeared a book titled "Mr. Babadook" about a horrible creature as if he was a snake. When Amelia reads Sam to the book every night, it seems that Babadook is slowly coming out of the pages and the threat from it also comes true. And that's where the horrors of the Amelia family's past have begun to unfold.

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[Trailer] Trick or Treat with Slappy in GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN

Sony Pictures has just released the trailer for Goosebumps,2: Haunted Halloween! Watch the trailer above and check out the first official poster at the bottom of this article.

Haunted Halloween is the highly anticipated sequel to the 2015 live adaptation of RL Stine’s much beloved horror series for kids. First published in July of 1992 (Happy 26th anniversary, Goosebumps!) the series continued steadily until 1997, amassing 62 titles in the original collection; including favorites such as The Haunted Mask, Welcome to Horrorland, Say Cheese and Die, Welcome to Camp Nightmare, and Night of the Living Dummy. But young readers clamored for more, and the Goosebumps series continued to expand, even now new titles are being released under Goosebumps SlappyWorld. The series has sold over 400 million copies worldwide, launched a widely popular television series, and a live action film that earned over $150mil at the box office. Yeah. I’d say that’s sequel-worthy. 

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween re-introduces fan favorite bad guy, Slappy the Dummy. Jack Black reprises his role as the voice of the Dummy, and he is joined by Ken Jeong (Crazy Rich Asians), Wendi Mclendon-Covey (Bridesmaids), Chris Parnell (Hot Rod) Madison Iseman, Ben O’Brien, Caleel Harris, and Jeremy Ray Taylor (IT). The film is directed by Ari Sandel from a screenplay by Darren Lemke (Turbo).

In the movie, 3 kids stumble upon the last Goosebumps books in RL Stine’s abandoned house. The book, ‘Haunted Halloween‘ is opened to unleash Slappy the Dummy and the world of Halloween – RL Stine style. Favorites foes from the first film will be returning like the Yeti and Werewolf – as long as some new ones.. like an army of evil gummy bears.

Official Synopsis:

Slappy is back to wreak more havoc this Halloween in a brand-new comedy adventure based on R.L. Stine’s 400-million-selling series of books.

  Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween lands in theaters on October 12th, just in time to scare a new generation of kids this Halloween. (Carly Beth better make an appearance, just saying.)

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Movie Review: Halloween comes to life. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

Sonny (Jeremy Ray Taylor) and his best friend Sam (Caleel Harris) have started a company called the Junk Brothers. They will haul away any junk you don’t want, hoping to find some sort of hidden treasures among the garbage. With Sonny’s mom (Wendi McLendon-Covey) working double shifts, Sonny and Sam are left in the care of Sonny’s sister Sarah (Madison Iseman), who is focused on finishing her…