2018 film by Ari Sandel
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
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Directed by
| Ari Sandel
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Screenplay by
| Rob Lieber
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Story by
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Based on
| Goosebumps
by
R. L. Stine
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Produced by
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Starring
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Cinematography
| Barry Peterson
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Edited by
| - David Rennie
- Keith Brachmann
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Music by
| Dominic Lewis
[1]
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Production
companies
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Distributed by
| Sony Pictures Releasing
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Release dates
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- October 8, 2018
(
2018-10-08
)
(
Culver City
)
[4]
- October 12, 2018
(
2018-10-12
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(United States)
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Running time
| 90 minutes
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Country
| United States
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Language
| English
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Budget
| $35 million
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Box office
| $93.3 million
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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
(or simply
Goosebumps 2
as marketed on
home release
)
[7]
is a 2018 American
horror comedy
film directed by
Ari Sandel
and written by Rob Lieber from a story by Lieber and
Darren Lemke
. A stand-alone sequel to 2015's
Goosebumps
, it is based on the
children's horror book series
of the same name by
R. L. Stine
. The new cast consists of
Wendi McLendon-Covey
,
Madison Iseman
,
Jeremy Ray Taylor
,
Caleel Harris
,
Chris Parnell
, and
Ken Jeong
. The plot follows two young boys who accidentally release the monsters from the
Goosebumps
franchise in their town after opening an unpublished
Goosebumps
manuscript titled
Haunted Halloween
, causing a wave of destruction on
Halloween
night.
Development of the film began in September 2015.
Rob Letterman
intended to return to direct, but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
.
Ari Sandel
replaced him as director.
Jack Black
and
Odeya Rush
were set to reprise their roles as R. L. Stine and Hannah Stine, respectively; Black's role was reduced to an uncredited cameo and Rush's role was ultimately not included in the final script.
Goosebumps 2
was released in the United States on October 12, 2018, by
Sony Pictures Releasing
under its
Columbia Pictures
label. The film received mixed reviews from critics, and was not as successful as its predecessor, grossing $93 million worldwide against its $35 million budget.
Plot
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]
Three years after the
previous movie
, teenager Sarah Quinn lives with her mother, Kathy, and her teenage brother, Sonny, in Wardenclyffe, New York.
Sonny's friend Sam Carter is dropped off at his house to be looked after while his parents are away for three days.
While scavenging for items in an abandoned house, they find a locked manuscript and open it, causing Slappy the Dummy to appear who is lifeless. When they leave the abandoned house, they are interrupted by a bully Tommy Madigan who steals the manuscript from them.
At home, Slappy reveals that he is alive to the boys. After he causes several accidents and incidents, the kids realize Slappy is at fault. They try to dispose him by locking him in a briefcase as throwing him into a swamp, but he escapes and jumps on in front of the vehicle sending the teenagers into a panic. Slappy now in a fit of rage says that he wants to be part of the family and pounding on the windshield, cracking it, Sarah immediately slams the breaks throwing Slappy off the vehicle and asks they are okay. Sam then notices that Slappy has disappeared. Wondering where did he go, Sonny says that they just made things a thousand times worse.
Later that evening, They find an article online about
the events that happened in Madison, Delaware
and desperately contact
R. L. Stine
but is forced to leave a recorded message.
Meanwhile, Slappy is at the Fred's Pharmacy and uses his magic to bring
Goosebumps
costumes and Halloween decorations to life and transforms a store employee named Walter into a hunchbacked ogre.
Sarah, Sonny, and Sam then leave the house to retrieve the book from Tommy, who tells them that it is at his house in his room just before he and his friends get abducted by witches. Just before leaving Tommy's house, Sonny and Sam are then attacked by some possessed gummy bears. Sonny and Sam discover that the book can suck the monsters inside when a gummy bear trips over Sonny.
Kathy is kidnapped by the balloon spider. The kids' neighbor, Mr. Chu, a
Goosebumps
fan, helps them craft monster disguises to safely navigate the town.
The kids head for the Wardenclyffe Tower, where Slappy is. They discover that Slappy has turned Kathy into a living dummy. They defeat Slappy and Sarah combines the book's power with the tower reactor's energy to drag all the other monsters back into the manuscript, returning Kathy and Walter to normal. When Stine arrives at the Tesla tower, he congratulates the teenagers for defeating the monsters.
When the group leaves the Tesla tower, Kathy says to Walter that she was glad that they ran into each other outside of work and Tommy (who was abducted by the witches earlier) lands into a bush and is so glad to see Sonny.
Before Stine leaves, he tells Sarah that the first rule of writing is "write what you know".
In November, Walter and Kathy start dating each other and Sonny wins the high school science fair and in December, Mr. Chu has his house decorated for Christmas and Sarah gets an email saying she got in to Columbia University in which the family celebrates.
After the scrolling credits roll, Slappy's voice is heard saying "Slappy Halloween!".
Cast
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- Madison Iseman
as Sarah Quinn, a teenager living in Wardenclyffe, New York
- Jeremy Ray Taylor
as Sonny Quinn, Sarah's brother
- Caleel Harris
as Sam Carter, Sonny's high school friend
- Wendi McLendon-Covey
as Kathy Quinn, Sonny and Sarah's mother
- Chris Parnell
as Walter, the manager of the local pharmacy who has a crush on Kathy and is turned into a hunchbacked ogre by a
Haunted Mask
- Ken Jeong
as Mr. Chu, the Quinns' neighbor
- Jack Black
(uncredited) as
R. L. Stine
, the writer of the
Goosebumps
books
[8]
- The real R. L. Stine cameos as Principal Harrison, the principal of the school that Sonny and Sam attend
- Mick Wingert
as the voice of
Slappy the Dummy
,
a living
ventriloquist dummy
from the
Night of the Living Dummy
books. Jack Black previously voiced Slappy in the first film.
- Avery Lee Jones provides the puppeteer work for Slappy.
- Bryce Cass as Tyler Mitchell, Sarah's ex-boyfriend.
- Peyton Wich as Tommy Madigan, a bully who picks on Sonny and Sam
- Kendrick Cross
as Mr. Carter, Sam's father
- Shari Headley
as Mrs. Carter, Sam's mother
- Courtney Lauren Cummings as Jess, a girl whom with Tyler cheats on Sarah
- Jessi Goei as Maya, Jess' friend
- Katharine C. Lumpkin as a monster bride
- Kent Wagner as an undead pirate
- Marsha Shackelford as a female cyborg
- Barry W. Jerald Jr. as a gray alien
- Sherri Millican as a banshee
- Scott Millican as a red-haired ghoul
- Joseph N. Hardin as a vampire
- Alex T. Hill as a scarecrow
- Benjamin Bladon as a royal mummy
Calaca
ladies portrayed by Iyani Gwendolyn, Cheniqua Litchmore, and Hali J. Ross.
Goblins
portrayed by Cody Jenkins and Joe Marri. Mummies portrayed by Mary Tricia Froedge, Robert Hunt, Martin Skyler, Grace Toso, Calvin Wickham, and Taylor Williams.
A scene briefly shows toys of
Ryu
and
Ken
from the
Street Fighter
series using voice clips from the games.
Production
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On September 2, 2015, it was reported that a
sequel
to the film
Goosebumps
was already in the planning stages, with Sony looking for a screenwriter.
[10]
On January 17, 2017, a January 26, 2018 release date was set, and
Rob Letterman
confirmed that he was to return as director for the sequel.
[11]
On February 6, 2017, it was announced that the film's release date had been delayed to September 21, 2018, taking the date previously held by
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
.
[12]
In May 2017, the title was said to be
Goosebumps: HorrorLand
.
[13]
At the time, it was also reported that Jack Black would reprise his role as R. L. Stine.
[14]
In November 2017, Rob Lieber was tapped to pen the script.
[15]
In December 2017,
Ari Sandel
was announced as the director instead of Letterman, due to the latter being busy directing
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
for
Legendary Entertainment
.
Variety
reported that two scripts had been written: one script in which Black would reprise his role, while the other had Black cut out entirely.
[16]
In December 2017, the sequel's release date was pushed to October 12, 2018.
[17]
The film was later renamed
Goosebumps: Slappy's Revenge
,
[18]
and its new leading cast members were set as
Madison Iseman
, Ben O'Brien,
Caleel Harris
and
Jeremy Ray Taylor
(O'Brien did not appear in the finished film).
[19]
Ken Jeong
,
Chris Parnell
and
Wendi McLendon-Covey
joined the following month.
[20]
Filming began on March 7, and in April 2018 the title was renamed again, to
Haunted Halloween
.
[21]
[22]
[23]
It was initially stated by Sony representatives that Avery Lee Jones, who puppeteered Slappy in the film, would also voice the character.
[24]
Jack Black returned for the film as Stine,
[8]
and it was later reported that Mick Wingert would actually voice Slappy.
[25]
Release
[
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]
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
was released on October 12, 2018. The film's first trailer premiered on July 11, 2018, the international trailer on August 16, 2018, and a third trailer on September 20, 2018.
[26]
A television spot was released on September 24, 2018, which also confirmed that Jack Black would return for the film.
[8]
Unlike the first film where it was given RealD 3D screenings, the sequel was not in the format.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
was released on Digital on December 25, 2018, and DVD and Blu-ray on January 15, 2019.
[27]
Reception
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Box office
[
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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
grossed $46.7 million in the United States and Canada, and $46.6 million in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of $93.3 million, against a production budget of $35 million.
[6]
In the United States and Canada,
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
was released alongside
First Man
and
Bad Times at the El Royale
, and was projected to gross $15?21 million from 3,521 theaters in its opening weekend.
[28]
[29]
The film made $4.9 million on its first day, including $750,000 from Thursday night previews, up from $600,000 by the first film. It went on to debut to $15.8 million (down 33% from the first film's opening of $23.6 million), finishing fourth at the box office, behind
Venom
,
A Star Is Born
and
First Man
.
[30]
The film dropped 38% in its second weekend, to $9.7 million, remaining in fourth.
[31]
The film was released in the
United Kingdom
on October 19, 2018, and opened in third, behind
A Star Is Born
and
Halloween
.
[32]
Critical response
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On
Rotten Tomatoes
, the film has an approval rating of 47% based on 95 reviews, with an average rating of 5.4/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
offers a handful of treats for very young viewers, but compared to the entertaining original, this sequel is a ding dong to ditch."
[33]
On
Metacritic
, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".
[34]
Audiences polled by
CinemaScore
gave the film an average grade of "B" on an A+ to F scale, down from the "A" earned by the first film.
[30]
Bilge Ebiri, writing for
Vulture
, said: "The first
Goosebumps
movie ... had wit, speed, and an imaginative spirit, throwing all sorts of rampaging, creatively designed ghouls at us.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
can’t quite make the same claim. It replicates the template and the atmosphere of the original, but it lacks invention and emotional investment", and added: "The movie feels undercooked on every level. True, it’s all
meant
to be slight and charming and inoffensive ? but there’s a way to make this sort of thing work, and
Goosebumps 2
doesn’t seem particularly interested in trying to find it."
[35]
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
of
The A.V. Club
gave the film a grade of C, writing: "Though the new
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
gets closer to the spirit of Stine’s bestselling books, it also shares their reliance on formula, recreating the first movie’s monster mash with fewer self-referential gags." He concluded: "though
Sandel
relies less on exasperating, rubbery digital effects than
Rob Letterman
, the
DreamWorks Animation
vet who helmed the original, his direction of the monsters and mayhem is never more than workmanlike, racing joylessly through a shaky plot that barely holds attention."
[36]
Writing for
The Globe and Mail
, Kate Taylor was more positive in her review of the film, giving it a score of 3 stars out of 4 and writing: "With a mere cameo from
Jack Black
as the reclusive Stine and fewer clever twists in the plot,
Goosebumps 2
risks the diminishing-returns scenario that plagues most sequels; what saves it is a climax that is fresh rather than frantic." She concluded: "the safely scary and often amusing formula holds. Meanwhile, the movie’s conclusion includes enough plot about Stine’s fate to suggest Goosebumps 3 will feature more of the elusive Black and that can only be a good thing."
[37]
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