And yet there’s something about the delicate nature of her features and the fragility of the piece that further sparks Carly Beth’s desire to be the opposite of how she’s perceived. Once home, Carly Beth discovers her mother has created a plaster cast of her own face, painted with lifelike detail. And when those two boys put a worm in her sandwich and the whole school cafeteria laughs her out of the room, she decides it’s time for revenge. Everyone thinks so: her best friend Sabrina, her little brother Noah, and especially Steve and Chuck, the two boys at school who spend their time trying to torment her.
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‘Goosebumps’ Live Action TV Series Reboot Coming to Disney Plus!Ĭarly Beth is a “scaredy cat”. It was time to see Goosebumps leap off the page and I don’t think there was a fan out there that wasn’t waiting with bated breath to see just how they were going to do it. With the orange glow of dusk on the horizon and the streets painted with the reds, oranges and yellows of fallen leaves, my friends and I settled in with bowls of Goldfish, Cheez-its and enough Mountain Dew to power an epic middle school all-nighter. Stine led intros and outros, it felt as much an extension of the books as it did the next step forward in their impressionable young readers’ journey into horror fandom.Īnd there was no better way to kick off the series than with an extended, late-October Halloween special, bringing to life one of Goosebumps’ most iconic tomes: The Haunted Mask. GB-7: Goosebumps fans years 7 or older) to its R.L. From the series’ playfully unique rating system (i.e.
In the thirty years that have transpired since the first Goosebumps book creeped its way onto unsuspecting shelves in 1992, there was rarely a moment where the franchise’s popularity and impact had been so acutely felt than when it first appeared onscreen. Indeed, they had turned Goosebumps into a TV show. The very thing that had ignited our imaginations, consumed much of our conversations and, truly, sent no small degree of shivers down our collective spines was about to manifest in the real world, regardless of how many times the commercials had warned, “Viewer beware…” This was not something I wanted to watch alone, after all.
A bevy of snacks lay across the coffee table and quickly my friends filtered in. Somehow, to my surprise, the bell did eventually ring and, like magic, time seemed to shift from the pace of a snail to that of a rocket, propelling me home and landing me squarely in front of the television. They may as well have been, after all, it was those handful of roman numerals that were responsible for keeping me in school, holding me back from the television event that I had been looking forward to since the moment the thirty second commercial spot had first clued me in to the upcoming series’ existence during one fateful X-Men the Animated Series ad break. How else could that particular Friday afternoon be lasting so incredibly long? In defiance, I eyed the thing incessantly, glaring at the numbers on its face as though they were an affront to my very existence. The hands on the clock were turning progressively slower, I was sure of it. The series adaptation later aired on Friday Octo(runtime: 44 minutes). Goosebumps: The Haunted Mask was originally p ublished on September, 1993 (Spine #11).
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