Watch the Long Awaited Goosebumps TV Reboot and Play Goosebumps Dead of Night to Double Your Scares!
We have now enjoyed the first six episodes of the new Goosebumps TV Series playing on Disney+ and Hulu, and eagerly await the season one finale, it’s awesome spooky fun! It’s a clever well performed adaptation of the classic series aged up for teen audiences. The series strikes a nice balance of really scary moments, mystery and grossness. The new Goosebumps TV show is a welcome update to the classic Goosebumps book series from the 90’s which ensures that the franchise will carry forward to a new generation of fans and those who already adore the best selling book series from R.L. Stine and movies from Sony.
Of course, after you watch the new Goosebumps TV series you will be left jonesing for more Goosebumps.
The fix for this is to play the top rated Goosebumps Dead of Night game available on Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Steam PC. There are a few other game titles as well, but nothing comes close to this game. You will enjoy being tormented by Slappy in RL Stine’s house, hopefully surviving the plants in the basement, zapping gummy bears with your ray gun and being chased by witches.
Visit the Goosebumps Game website to download and play it. Or, you can pickup a copy at major retailers if you can find it. It seems that retail copies in stores and online have been in short supply. Hopefully by the Holidays the supply of retail copies will pick up.
Rotten Tomatoes critics consensus says, “Wickedly inventive enough to give viewers the creeps if not nightmares, Goosebumps solidly transplants R.L. Stine’s spooky stories into a serialized format.”
The Guardian gets it too, “The better news, though, is that Disney couldn’t have picked a sturdier franchise to adapt. Almost as soon as Stine’s first books were published, Goosebumps has made itself readily available to all forms of media. It has previously been on TV, in the form of a 74-episode anthology series made in the 1990s. It’s a movie franchise. There have been Goosebumps games, comics and musicals. All these iterations have taken their own tone — the TV show could be fantastically scary, while the films skate dangerously close to parody — but they have all managed to retain the core Goosebumps DNA.”
However, there are some reviewers out there that in my opinion totally miss the mark. They take the position that the new material did not stick with the classic series. This is the purist’s, but this leaves no room for the creativity of today’s filmmakers who had the vision and the awareness to appeal to modern audiences. I have tried to watch classic movies and TV shows with the kids, but they don’t have much interest. The storylines are usually out-of-touch with today’s culture and the look is dated.
I hope we don’t have to wait too long for season two!
