Trivia / Goosebumps (2015)

• Acting for Two: In the movie, Jack Black voices Slappy as well. Played with in one scene that features a Juxtaposed Halves Shot of them.
• California Doubling: Takes place in the Delaware town of Madison, but was shot in the Georgia city of Atlanta.
• Casting Gag: At the end of movie, Stine becomes the new English teacher, so who does R.L. Stine play? Mr. Black, the drama teacher.
• Cowboy Be Bop At His Computer: The Monster Survival Guide refers to the swamp monster from How to kill a Monster as a mud monster from You Can't Scare Me!
• Deleted Scenes: A bunch appear on the Blu-Ray:
  • An alternate opening showing Stine moving from his previous home in the middle of the night. The scene was actually used as the prologue of the prequel video game.
  • Zack's first day of school, where he gets on a football player's bad side (the same player is the boyfriend of Champ's love interest and bails on her when encountering the werewolf) and meets Champ.
  • A brief confrontation between Zack and his mother after the police visit at Stine's home over moving to Madison.
  • Stine's visit to the police station, where he finds out Zack prank called him.
  • Aunt Lorraine finding out Zack has gone from his room before finding Fifi on the doorstep.
  • A brief exchange in the Wagoneer between Zack and Hannah about attending the dance, before Boyfriend-Blocking Dad Stine shoots it down (the scene also includes several ad-libbed versions of Stine's response).
  • After the Jerk Jock football player bails on his girlfriend, he receives a bout of Laser-Guided Karma in the form of the Abonimable Snowman of Pasadena.
  • An alternate ending. Instead of Hannah being rewritten into reality, a Replacement Goldfish named Anna asks Zack where her classroom is. After finding out she's not a monster, he goes to help her. The rest of the ending plays out as normal, only except when Stine passes the typewriter, the title typed is Slappy's Revenge. Slappy appears behind Stine as Stine screams into the camera.
• Development Hell: The Goosebumps movie was hinted at waaay back in the year 1997 when the series was at the height of its popularity but apparently had trouble getting financial backing at the time (20th Century Fox was going through a turbulent time at the turn of the century; indeed, Fox Kids got shut down in 2002, but for mainly unrelated reasons). The movie wound up shelved when the TV series was cancelled and the waning of interest in the series. It wouldn't be until 17 years later that they finally got it off the ground.
• Ink-Suit Actor: Slappy in the movie is designed to bear a closer resemblance to his voice actor Jack Black. This also plays into the fact that Slappy is portrayed as a Shadow Archetype for R.L. Stine (also played by Black).
• The Other Darrin: The role for Slappy in the films went from Jack Black in the first to Mick Wingert in Haunted Halloween (and before then, it was reported that Avery Jones, the man who puppeteers Slappy, would also provide the voice for the sequel).
• Playing Against Type:
  • Jack Black, normally known for playing irreverent, idiotic goofballs, instead plays the ever-serious, grumpy, intelligent R.L. Stine.
  • Dylan Minnette usually plays awkward or nerdy guys. Playing The Hero like Zack is quite different for him.
• Real-Life Relative: Not among the main cast, but for the several extras playing monsters, the actors portraying the swamp creature and the Snake Lady are married in real life. Let that sink in for a moment....
• What Could Have Been: Back in the 1990s, George A. Romero wrote a script for a Goosebumps film that would have adapted Welcome to Dead House. The eponymous house would have been reimagined as a Sapient House that is possessed by Foster Devries, the factory owner who was responsible for the chemical leak that killed everyone in the company town of Dark Falls. He would have brought all of his workers back as undead slaves who he has bring him live victims to feed on and turn into new undead residents of Dark Falls.