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'Goosebumps' Movie Finds Writer
Break out your dusty copies of 'Night of the Living Dummy' and 'Monster Blood' because 'Goosebumps' is headed to the big screen. If you aren't familiar with 'Goosebumps,' it was an extremely popular series of young adult horror books written by R.L. Stine. Back in 2008, Colombia Pictures bought the rights to all of the books and has been trying to put together a cinematic adaptation ever since. Now it appears writer Darren Lemke ('Jack the Giant Killer') is closing in on a deal to finally get the job done. No word yet on which of the titles from the series will find their way into the film.
Like many other children of the 90s, I read my fair share of 'Goosebumps' and watched the subsequent television series. Coupled with Nickelodeon's TV series 'Are You Afraid of the Dark,' it was a nice gateway into full blown horror fandom. Obviously, given the relatively tame nature of the books, the resulting movie will be far from hardcore horror, but that by no means disqualifies it from being a quality film. In fact, without the crutch of shock and gore, this could be a fascinating experiment in suspense and recreating old-school horror for young adults, something I feel is desperately needed in the wake of 'Twilight.' My hope is that, rather than settle on adapting just one book from the series, that Lemke puts together an anthology of several of them. The kid in me also desperately hopes 'Attack of the Mutant' finds its way into that anthology as it was my favorite and would be an interesting juxtaposition to the now thriving superhero movie machine.
What do you guys think? Any former 'Goosebumps' readers out there? Could this work?
Soure: THR
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Comment by Joseph Trochez on January 23, 2012 at 12:48pm -
I hope they base it off the night of the living dummy. Dummies freak me the fu#k out!
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Comment by jason franklin on January 21, 2012 at 9:16pm -
i think a lot of us agree that a creepshow style would make sense and would make for a entertaining movie.but also would go with something with a story arc with maybe the same town or some of the same characters or a good raparound.i would say more like creepshow 2,something that bring it all together
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Comment by here's jonny on January 21, 2012 at 5:52pm
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Haha, just thinkin the same thing wolfman. A creepshow style Goosebumps would be awesome. I used to love those books, pretty sure I read all of them, but its been a long time.
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Comment by mr.wolfman on January 21, 2012 at 5:26pm -
the books are really short. so im thinking they would do a "creep show" for kids.
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Comment by Cait Barrett on January 21, 2012 at 2:36pm -
Slappy the Dummy was scary as hell back in the day. I'd love to see a movie with him.
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Comment by glossycomics on January 20, 2012 at 1:26am -
This is great!! I hope they do a good job and dont fuck it up!! :)
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Comment by jason franklin on January 19, 2012 at 6:51pm
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@jon riddle
i agree that does sound nice.but who would get to direct it.
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Comment by Jon Riddle on January 19, 2012 at 6:15pm -
Looks like I'll be parroting a lot of other spilliacs here when I say that I would love to see this become an anthology movie, like Creepshow or Trilogy of Terror. Correct me if I'm wrong, but has there been a horror anthology released theatrically since the early 90's? The last one I know was was Tales From the Hood.
I personally love all the anthology horror movies released by Amicus back in the mid 60's to early 70's (Tales From the Crypt, From Beyond the Grave, etc.). Those were PG horror movies that still fright and delight. A Goosebumps movie made in that kind of style with a wraparound story that ends on a twist would be just perfect!
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Comment by jason franklin on January 19, 2012 at 11:35am
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it doesn't have to do well on tv for them to make a movie of it look at Don't be afraid of the dark came on tv in 1973 not to many people have heard of and that didn't stop someone from remake as theater release.the director said it sared him he was little.
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Comment by Boatloads1017 on January 19, 2012 at 10:46am -
Huh. Did the TV movies do well enough for them to consider a theatrical release? Cause there's a shit ton of those already.
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