Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

Goosebumps
2015
***
Director: Rob Letterman
Cast: Jack Black, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, Ryan Lee, Jillian Bell, Halston Sage, Ken Marino

Zach and his mother move to Madison, Delaware, next door to Hannah and her overprotective father, who turns out to be R. L. Stine, a famous horror novelist. One night, Zach breaks into their house and unwittingly unleashes all the author's scary characters from the locked manuscripts. This horror comedy puts a clever fictional twist on the life of a real-life author whose books have sold hundreds of millions of copies. The movie is formulaic and very Jumanji-like, but it offers an entertaining mix of scares and jokes for the whole family.