‘Goosebumps 2’ Trailer Unleashes A ‘Haunted Halloween’
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloweenwill throw even more CGI bombast and ghoulishness in your face this October. Based on the endless series from R.L. Stine,Haunted Halloweenonce again finds some youths going up against fiendish foes escaped from the pages of Stine’s work. And yes, Slappy the Dummy is back, being a jerk. Watch the latestGoosebumps 2trailer below.
Goosebumps 2 Trailer
I’ll admit it: I thought the firstGoosebumpswas kind of fun. It had its problems, and relied far too much on CGI. But for the most part, it was an amusing family friendly horror film that paid tribute to the world of R.L. Stine. Now here comesGoosebumps 2, which looks to have more or less the same exact plot. The big difference here is thatJack Blackis not returning as Stine – probably because he was busy making the similarHouse with a Clock in its Walls.
In this sequel, “Two boys face an onslaught from witches, monsters, ghouls and a talking dummy after they discover a mysterious book by author R.L. Stine.” The footage here looks…okay. I’m a sucker for Halloween-themed stuff, soGoosebumps 2has that going for it. And when I was a kid, I would devour theGoosebumpsbooks, burning through one a day (my favorite wasSay Cheese and Die, mostly for the title alone). All that said, this movie looksloud, with people constantly shrieking as stuff crashes down around them. Once again, there’s far too much reliance on cheap-looking CGI. And that bit with the Gummy Bears at the end is just dumb. But hey – this is a movie being marketed to kids, not jaded adults like me. Maybe a younger crowd will get a kick out of all this mayhem.
Goosebumps 2, starringWendi McLendon-Covey,Madison Iseman,Jeremy Ray Taylor,Caleel Harris,Chris Parnell, andKen Jeong, and directed byAri Sandel, trick or treats its way into theatersOctober 12, 2018.
