When Sony acquired the rights to R.L. Stine‘s Goosebumps books, we wondered which volumes they’d choose to adapt. The original series yielded 62 novels between 1992 and 1997, and that’s not counting the various specials and spinoffs that were also part of the franchise.
The answer, it turned out, was all of them. In the movie, all the monsters Stine (played by Jack Black) has written about are real, and it’s only his careful protection that keeps him away from the rest of us. When his new neighbor Zach (Dylan Minnette) accidentally lets them loose, they must scramble to stop the monsters from taking over the town. Odeya Rush plays Stine’s daughter. Watch the latest Goosebumps trailer after the jump.
Sony debuted the latest Goosebumps trailer on YouTube.
It’s a clever take on the property, and the trailer does a good job of capturing the books’ tone, which was always more spooky and funny than flat-out scary. Goosebumps has a pretty great supporting cast, too, including Amy Ryan, Ken Marino, Ryan Lee, Jillian Bell, and Kumail Nanjiani. The film is out October 16.