The movie version of Goosebumps is a cheerful, nasty delight.

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Storybook monsters come to life in a movie based on R.L. Stine's Goosebumps series.

Dir: Rob Letterman. US. 2015. 103mins

Jack Black stars as writer R.L. Stine in this adaptation of the novelist’s series of children’s horror stories.

“Goosebumps” review: Jack Black and the makers of “Goosebumps” want to give audiences chills. This feature adaptation of kid-lit author R.L. Stine’s best-selling horror-comedy series is out to thrill fans with a story that’s just as obsessively invested as they are.

Entertaining horror film never gets too frightening while speculating what might happen if every monster ever invented by author R.L. Stine series came to life at the same time

The Goosebumps author turns up as a creepy weirdo in this spine-tingling romp full of villains from his bestselling novels

R.L. Stine has long been the last guardian at the gate of a culture being turned, generation-by-generation, into a nation of "Dragon Tails" neutered ninnies. The "Goosebumps" writer (and TV series creator) was willing to strip-mine horror formulas and flirt with time-and-"Twilight Zone" proven set-ups to give coddled kids a chance to beg mommy to…

'Goosebumps' with Jack Black as R.L. Stine offers good fun with its bump-in-the-night frights translating well from book to film.

Will today’s creepypasta kids still enjoy such silly fireside supernaturalism? We do hope so

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The wittier one-liners and more affecting emotional moments are undermined by a frenzy of chaotic excess.

At a guess, I'd say that Goosebumps will satisfy its core audience - fans of R.L. Stine's popular children's books - and bore pretty much everyone else. The film, which captures the feel if not the full charm of the written stories, comes...

Jack Black plays R.L. Stine in this lively take on the hit YA horror-lite books.

Jack Black turns R.L. Stine's best-selling kid-lit horror tales 'Goosebumps' into a spooky good time.

Director Rob Letterman and an energetic cast deliver a movie that's a lot of good creepy fun in spite of some dubious construction. 

Taking the ‘Cabin in the Woods’ approach of chucking in all the monsters and seeing what sticks, this kid-friendly spooker based on the crazy-huge-selling stori

The film, based on the children's books, doesn't take itself too seriously, and that pays off.

Jack Black comes up trumps in this entertaining adaptation of RL Stine’s cherished children’s horror series.

Jack Black plays children’s horror writer RL Stine in a scrappy yarn that brings a horde of his creepiest ghouls together

The ever-popular YA novels spring to life with Jack Black

Black stars as author (and monster hunter) R.L. Stine in a silly, rollicking adventure that doesn't take itself too seriously