Goosebumps

When was the last time a series you thought would be a lazy watch jolted you upfrom your seat, made you set aside your notions, and kept you invested throughout its runtime? Everything about Goosebumps, Disney+’s latest comedy horror series based on R. L. Stine’s book series, seemed quite lazy and unpromising. After a quick prologue about how a young teenager, Harold Biddle (Ben Cockell), died eerily in a fire in a huge mansion in Port Lawrence in 1993, we cut to the present to see a bunch of reckless teens breaking into the same abandoned villa on Halloween night (typical!) ignoring the beliefs that it’s haunted by Biddle’s ghost (again, typical!). And as you would expect, supernatural stuff happens. Since Stine’s books came out, we have seen such an opening to hundreds of horror titles. But somewhere in the middle of the pilot episode, you realise that this seemingly generic setting is a ploy to surprise you with quite a few novel ideas, all of which build up to almost five hours of binge-worthy teen horror drama. There’s body-splattering worm-eating gore, more than one supernatural mystery to crack, a constant dreadful suspense about what’s about to come, and lots of fun. Here's the full review: https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/goosebumps-series-review-no-lack-of-fun-thrill-and-worms-in-this-binge-worthy-teen-horror-comedy/article67427124.ece