Goosebumps: the movie

And there's the offhand reference to "Little Shop of Hampsters".

Which when I first saw that I thought it was just a joke. I didn't learn until later that yes, "Little Shop of Hampsters" is actually real.

The freezing aliens I didn't recognize are also apparently the Body Squeezers.

And the clown is from the Horrorland books.

edited 23rd Oct '15 10:01:48 AM by BadWolf21

Not wanting too many spoilers, just really need to know something; what kind of cliffhanger is there?

It's a Goosebumps movie, so there's obviously a cliffhanger. But is it a 'the kid has elastic powers now' cliffhanger or a 'the kid eats a cookie and becomes the leader of the monsters' cliffhanger?

Neither...? I'm not sure, those are very specific categories.

I think he's asking if it's a Cruel Twist Ending (i.e the kid becomes the leader of the monsters) or a nicer one (i.e the kid gains elastic powers)

It's not really either.

I think I walked in on the last scene before the credits...? Slappy sneaks up on Stine to declare that they "missed one"? And both were played by Jack Black according to the credits?

Ending spoilers. It's not Slappy, it's the Invisible Boy.

Yes, that's it, all three were played by Jack Black!

Ah, alright. That was the one thing I didn't like about Goosebumps (the few that I read - most seemed too scary for me at the time).

Re: the non-original series monsters: in addition to the ones mentioned already, I'm pretty sure the ghouls were supposed to be the ones from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls.

And regarding omitted monsters: I thought the abandoned park would morph into Horror Land and was disappointed when it didn't

edited 28th Oct '15 4:38:37 PM by LizardBite

I remember reading a book where some amusement park ride like the Ferris wheel spontaneously became a time machine, but I don't remember if it was an R. L. Stine book.

Come to think of it, I seem to recall reading multiple unrelated books where a group of children would stumble into some craft that turned out to be a time machine. I don't know if there was a reason to that theme other than "I want to write about this period of history but make it for kids, so suddenly time machine"

edited 29th Oct '15 12:02:52 AM by BagofMagicFood

I want to say Time Warp Trio, but that wouldn't fit the 'unrelated' part of the description.

My sister and I said the girl looked a lot like Jackie from That '70s Show.

I vaguely remember a series about a library or bunch of scrolls or something that would take a bunch of kids into the time periods they were from.

Don't know about the rest of you,but If Hannah the ghost was a protagonist who turned out to be "real" like the monsters, does that mean the other monster kids could escape as well? Like Lucy Dark, Larry the Dog boy, or the Shock Street android kids? I think that'd be a cool idea for a sequel.

A sequel is moving forward.

My dad is going to be so happy.

Who voiced Slappy? Was it Mark Hamill? Because Slappy's laugh sounded awfully familiar to the BTAS Joker laugh.

Jack Black voiced him, actually.

I know. Black sounds a lot like Hamill as Slappy though. Guy's got range.