{"id":83107,"date":"2016-02-05T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T01:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=83107"},"modified":"2016-02-09T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T20:42:07","slug":"goosebumps-film-review-viewer-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/goosebumps-film-review-viewer-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Goosebumps film review: viewer beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Is third time the charm? It looks so, as previous collaborations between director Rob Letterman and actor Jack Black, although financially successful, fall firmly into the \u2018meh\u2019 category. With <em><strong>Goosebumps<\/strong><\/em>, however, they have finally delivered a high-octane thrill ride through the charmingly wicked imagination of RL Stine, the man responsible for childhood nightmares of the Nineties-born generation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Following a well-worn template \u2013 boy Zach (Dylan Minnette) moves to a small provincial town, where he meets neighbour Hannah (Odeya Rush), who is keeping a secret from him \u2013 the film has a familiar flavour, but ultimately this works in its favour, as later on the structure is broken and all literary hell breaks loose.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><em><strong>Goosebumps<\/strong><\/em> speeds up helter-skelter in the second act and never loses its momentum, providing an eye-popping feast. Cool visuals aside, it\u2019s also full of intertextual content. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Obviously enough, the film incorporates plot elements and characters from Stine\u2019s prose, but with the rare purpose of building them up into a complex braid of creatively used cinematic references, ranging from Fifties monster movies to the likes of <em><strong>Night Of The Living Dead<\/strong><\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">So while kids will be alternately laughing their heads off and fearfully covering their eyes, accompanying adults will have their share of fun. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><em><strong>Goosebumps<\/strong><\/em> is wisely and widely auto-thematic while self-referential on many different layers, Jack Black\u2019s performance as the fictionalised version of Stine himself being the most obvious (it even says a lot about the merciless \u2013 but nevertheless entertaining and rewarding \u2013 process of creation), so you\u2019d better be ready to scrape those layers off. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Sony is striking while the iron is hot and already looking for someone to write a sequel, which is fine, as there is more than enough material to make a long-running franchise here.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RL Stine&#8217;s most terrifying monsters come to life in the Goosebumps movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":83111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,8],"tags":[3099],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Goosebumps-movie.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}