The new season of the 'Goosebumps' TV series returns with more spooky adventures, revisiting the lore of the beloved books and introducing new monsters for a fresh generation of fans.
Gateway horror is important, but it’s going through a rough time. While the ’80s and ’90s saw a golden age of kid-friendly scares in book form, there are fewer and fewer of these horror projects coming out with each new year. Thankfully, one of the big players from the ’90s has kept the spirit of the spooky season alive, with Rob Letterman helming not just a successful series that premiered in 2023. In its first season, the series was a fun horror-comedy that pulled from R.L.
Stine’s work while telling a serialized story, with each episode referencing a different book as it built up an overarching tale. This time around, developers Letterman and Nicholas Stoller have cooked up gateway horror that’s a good time whether you’ve never heard of R.L. Stine or are a longtime fan. The new season starts 30 years in the past, when a poor teen suffered a tragedy, one that returns in the present to haunt a new set of kids. Specifically, in 1994, a group of teens vanished without a trace after going on a dare to last a night at a haunted fort. In 2024, twins Devin (Sam McCarthy) and Cece (Jayden Bartels) are spending the summer with their safety-obsessive and botany-enthusiast dad Anthony (David Schwimmer), whose older brother was one of the unfortunate kids from three decades earlier. Together with other neighborhood teens—Jen (Ana Ortiz), Alex (Francesca Noel), CJ (Elijah M. Cooper), Frankie (Galilea La Salvia), and Trey (Stony Blyden)—the twins quickly realize that their boring Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend is stranger and more full of monsters than they ever could have imagined. Although stories from the new season do a commendable job of translating and updating the original frights. Though clearly restrained by a TV budget, the creature effects look solid, with a few well-placed jump scares and a healthy balance of spooks and laughs helping even the more outlandish monsters (we’re looking at you, Blob) seem menacing
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