[Nicky91]

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After accidentally releasing supernatural forces, five teenagers must find a way to work together and recapture them, while discovering their parents' secrets from their teenage years

release date

Goosebumps is scheduled to be released on October 13, 2023 on Disney+ and Hulu simultaneously as a part of the "Hallowstream" and "Huluween" streaming blocks, respectively.

starring

Justin Long (who we know from his roles in: Live Free and Die Hard, Herbie Fully Loaded, Dodgeball, Jeepers Creepers)

Zack Morris (Keegan Baker from EastEnders)

Miles McKenna (YouTuber, his role on the Hulu series All Night and in the Amazon Prime original horror Nocturne)

Isa Briones (Soji on Star Trek: Picard)

Rachael Harris (Dr Linda Martin on Lucifer)

Rob Huebel

[Nicky91]

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they uploaded this halloween atmosphere ambiance hour long video



4 days before we can watch episode 1


episode titles are out!

1 "Say Cheese and Die!" Rob Letterman[4] Rob Letterman & Nicholas Stoller October 13, 2023
2 "The Haunted Mask" TBA Franklin Jin Rho October 13, 2023
3 "The Cuckoo Clock of Doom" TBA James Eagan October 13, 2023
4 "Go Eat Worms" TBA Courtney Perdue & Baindu Saidu October 13, 2023
5 "Reader Beware" TBA Mariko Tamaki October 13, 2023
6 "Night of the Living Dummy" TBA Nick Mueller October 20, 2023
7 "Give Yourself Goosebumps" TBA Hilary Winston October 27, 2023
8 "You Can't Scare Me" TBA Nick Adams November 3, 2023
9 "Night of the Living Dummy Part 2" TBA Mariko Tamaki November 10, 2023
10 "Welcome to Horrorland" TBA Rob Letterman & Nicholas Stoller November 17, 2023

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we luv re-usage of classics

[Nicky91]

watched episode 1 last night


hmmmm i as a fan of the original goosebumps series, i quite liked this one too


visuals are of course much better although for its time back then the original series also had pretty neat effects

i deffo understand The Guardian's review how it gives a whole ''Stranger Things'' vibe (in a good way)


good acting too


yeah i enjoyed this, will deffo watch the rest of it too

[Nicky91]

watched episode 2 and 3 last night


episode 2

Spoiler:

i remember i liked the Haunted Mask one back then too, once again another great upgrade visually, good background story, the whole wallflower no one at school knows who she is scenario, with that Mask taking over her life and ultimately her transforming into a ''troll'' being

so the english teacher Mr Bratt (now taken over by the spirit of Harold Biddle) finding out who remembers Harold or if he's being forgotten, is a superb acting role from Justin Long


in the end of this story, Mr Bratt was watching Isabella and her brother throw away the mask in a river from a bridge and him finding and taking it offscreen

episode 3

Spoiler:

omg yass, the cuckoo clock of doom one groundhog day vibe, James being stuck in the Biddle home, and everytime he tried leaving, he duplicated himself, with clones whom are made of some sort of substance which smells like watermelon

so his clones take over his life, while dumping him alive in a abandoned mineshaft of his family's

having caused
- Allison to get jealous of Isaiah and Margot
- breaking up with his football crush Sam
- basically insulted Isaiah as weak and talentless


but all is well in the end how the group (Isabella, Margot, Isaiah) rescue the real James and get rid of all the clones apart from one

the last remaining clone brings some mysterious box to Mr Bratt/Harold, however whatever was inside that, no longer was


also Margot's mom Sarah (whom works in seattle) knows more about Harold and prepares to return there

deffo a lot darker than the original, and i love that

[Iceman]

Gonna start this today.

[Nicky91]

episode 4

Spoiler:

OMG the worms, so funny, whew well produced ep this one

so the worms gave Lucas sort of invincibility, regenerative powers so he could pull off his stunts without injuring himself too badly, not on long term anyway, as the worms heal him within couple minutes

he threw up all the worms and they turned into a giant worm monster, chasing Nora, Margot, Lucas to the docks,

Spoiler:

where Lucas distracted him long enough for Margot and Nora to turn on the shredder and it blew out the worm into the water in tiny pieces, what i literally said, thats one pile of fishfood

Spoiler:

Nora got taken in custody and placed in the asylum section of the hospital under Isabella's mom her care for telling the ''truth'' and nobody believed her thanks to some of the other parents (and mainly Eliza, James's mom) who probably bribed the local authorities

again good fun

[Nicky91]

episode 5

Spoiler:

we getting to learn Harold was really close with Margot's mom Sarah

Harold's backstory (also tbh his death wasn't by bullying from Ben, Sarah, Nora, Eliza, Victoria but kinda accidental how Slappy made him paranoid and they only want to take the doll away from him to restore him back to normal, so out of paranoia he locked himself in the basement and when they knocked on the basement door he panicked and fell, with his candle to the floor, engulfing everything in flames literally)

episode 6

Spoiler:

OMG YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS the return of the ICONIC Slappy!!!!!!!

also Slappy's backstory was literally amazingly written, produced


we luv our slappers


Harold still thinks of the kids their parents as murderers even though they aren't so he wants good old revenge

this is soooooo good, and kinda i am glad visually they decided to go with something scarier, darker than the original, since another R.L Stine series Just Beyond kinda flopped earlier this year on Disney

but this is visually awesome, storyline wise it kinda feels like a horror drama on its own without it being too obviously a goosebumps remake, still a lot of authenticity to it



the villain

Spoiler:

Harold Biddle

is a character what Mr Stine himself can relate to very well



the main characters have some vibes to Stranger Things's cast although also very authentic background stories



i love it so far, and as a disney loyalist i'm loving it getting much praise it deserves for visuals and story

[Crimson Dynamo]

isnt this for children?

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

isnt this for children?

the original 1995 series yes, which was slightly less scary


this i wouldn't recommend to the smallest children without supervision of an adult though


especially Justin Long's acting performance of Mr Bratt

Spoiler:

Harold Biddle that sick CGI visual almost as scary like Vecna is on stranger things

superb

[Nicky91]

finished season 1 last night

Spoiler:

all in all, enjoyed every episode a lot, very nice storytelling, properly well made flashback scenes, and i think we could get a season 2, since it was a bit of an open ending with

Spoiler:

Isaiah having been in coma and Margot used Slappy's revival spell on him for him to wake up + Mr Bratt having seen Slappy/Kanduu in the bathroom mirror

[Nicky91]

its been renewed for a season 2, with new cast announcements as well


David Schwimmer as ''Anthony''

Ana Ortiz as ''Jen''

Sam McCarthy as ''Devin''

Jayden Bartels as ''Cece''

Elijah M Cooper as ''CJ''

Galilea La Salvia as ''Frankie''

Francesca Noel as ''Alex''

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

its been renewed for a season 2, with new cast announcements as well


David Schwimmer as ''Anthony''

Ana Ortiz as ''Jen''

Sam McCarthy as ''Devin''

Jayden Bartels as ''Cece''

Elijah M Cooper as ''CJ''

Galilea La Salvia as ''Frankie''

Francesca Noel as ''Alex''

seems like season 2 will be a completely different plot


new cast additions include

Sakina Jeffrey as ''Ramona''

Stony Blyden as ''Trey''

Arjun Athalye as ''Sameer''

Eloise Payet as ''Hannah''

Christopher Paul Richards as ''Matty''

Kyra Tantao as ''Nicole''

The series abandons the episodic anthology format of the 1995 original TV series to focus on a serialized-anthology style of storytelling instead, changing storylines from season to season instead of episode to episode while still featuring some of the existing Goosebumps monsters and items episodically.

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[Nicky91]

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[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

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January 10

i watched first 3 episodes of this last night



proper acting, and it deffo also feels similar-ish but still authentic goosebumps nostalgia to american horror story


lovely modern take of the ''stay out of the basement'' classic

[Ammi]

…oh I love Goosebumps stories……I don’t have Disney though, sadly…

[Nicky91]

episode 4

Spoiler:

gross, Cece drinking that thing's ''blood'' goo in her kombucha unknowingly, very nice tribute to The Blob too in this episode


and it seems

Spoiler:

Trey, having survived that attack somehow although was left comatose and doesn't have any memory of what had happened, and that thing impersonated Trey, or cloned him with its own gooey substance, so Frankie didn't murder him after all

episode 5

Spoiler:

great special effects with David, especially

Spoiler:

with his eye popping out due to being infected by that monster's spores of some kind, and then completely being taken over by that monster, making it seem as if nothing was wrong with him

also focus on CJ, delivery guy this episode, a modern take on ''the boy who cried wolf''