Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

PG

Released Oct 12, 2018

1 hr. 30 min.

Holiday

Fantasy

Adventure

Comedy

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While collecting junk one day, best friends Sonny and Sam meet Slappy, a mischievous talking dummy from an unpublished "Goosebumps" book by R.L. Stine. Hoping to start his own family, Slappy kidnaps Sonny's mother and brings all of his ghoulish friends back to life -- just in time for Halloween. As the sleepy town becomes overrun with monsters, witches and other mysterious creatures, Sonny joins forces with his sister, Sam and a kindly neighbor to save Sonny's mom and foil Slappy's plan.

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Critics Consensus

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween offers a handful of treats for very young viewers, but compared to the entertaining original, this sequel is a ding dong to ditch.

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Timur, Chi, T, Samilia, Tangram and Samil M

Worse than the first one.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/27/24

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Hayden P

YOU KNOW WHEN COME DOWN TO HORRIBLE MOVIES THAT PEOPLE BRING UP LIKE PLANES, STRANGE MAGIC, OR THE EMOJI MOVIE I DONT THINK WE HATED ON THIS MOVIE ENOUGH ATLEAST THE EMOJI MOVIE HAS MORE PERSONALITY, THIS FVCKING MOVIE PUT ME INTO A COMA ON HOW BAD IT WAS THERE IS LITTERATY A SCENE WHERE THEY MENTION BITCOIN LIKE WHAT!!!?, ALSO RL MOTHER FVCKING STINE THE MAN BEHIIND THE BOOKS ONLY APPEARS FOR 5 MINS LIKE WHY WHAT WAS THE POINT OF HAVING TO WATCH THIS ABOMATION TO CINEMA WHAT WAS THE POINT OF RELEASING IN THEATHER OF ALL PLACES HOW DID THIS MAKE MOOOOONNNNNEEYYYY ITS SOO HORRENDUS THAT I DONT THINK A 1/10 REALLY DECRIBES IT SO IT GETS A -0/10

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

04/24/24

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Justin T

This is definitely worse than the first film. It suffers from being really generic and forgettable. It actually hurt how generic this film was. You've heard the exact same humour in most Hollywood films, the characters are so boring and seen them so many times, the story is pretty much a carbon copy of every other film. I'm not saying that it's bad as such, it's just painfully unoriginal and forgettable. The teenagers looked like they are nearing their 30s. The parents look like they are leaving their 30s. None of the ages are believable. The relationships are not convincing. The main antagonist is quite entertaining and the spooky action is thrilling. The film is also well made so it is perfectly watchable. It mixes comedy and action with spooky monsters but without the interesting story and characters that made the first film better than this. Most of the special effects were good, some looked bad like the driving scenes.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

11/17/23

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RaÃ C

The film is wonderful!!! I love this film, full of action, suspense, adventure, horror, just the way we like it!!! I love!!! Now all we need is 3, hahaha

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/11/24

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Zachary K

I just hated the fact they didn't bring back the old cast. It's just a shame we didn't get to see Zach, Hannah, and Champ. It's possible if this did introduce the new characters, but had them interact with the original characters, we may, just may be able to see Zach and Hannah get married at the end of the film.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

10/31/23

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Erik S

Perfect for a kid audience and middle age (30s) people. For the kids it could be scary and funny for the adults that that grew up reading all of the goosebumps books and enjoy a good trip down memory lane. If you remember the books it has several monsters from the kids books in this movie. I think they could of made it more scary the kids could handle it! RL stines Fear Street was more intense and written for the pre-teen/teen age group that wanted a simpler read without having to read a Stephen king novel. Those would be a great remake!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

10/26/23

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Ari Sandel

Director

Madison Iseman

Sarah

Jeremy Ray Taylor

Sonny

Wendi McLendon-Covey

Kathy

Caleel Harris

Sam

Chris Parnell

Walter

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Roxana Hadadi

Chesapeake Family Magazine

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween will amuse young kids, but overall it isn't as lively or exciting as its predecessor, and less screentime for Jack Black is a bummer.

Rated: 3/5

Oct 26, 2018

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

This lacklustre sequel to the 2015 hit Goosebumps hardly has enough jokes to qualify as a comedy, which leaves it stranded in the netherworld of near-horror, aimed at children supposedly not yet ready for the real thing.

Rated: 1.5/5

Oct 23, 2018

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

It lacks the genuinely creepy edge of the original.

Oct 22, 2018

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

Goosebumps 2 certainly has its heart in the right place, but that doesn't keep it from feeling like stale, year-old candy.

Jul 1, 2020

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John Squires

Bloody Disgusting

The second film in a franchise with so much existing material to pull from should simply never be this dull.

Rated: 2/5

Mar 9, 2020

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Emily Breen

HeyUGuys

Subversive, yet always fun for all Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is spooky with added "Ooo!" and is destined to become a family Halloween classic.

Rated: 5/5

Jun 5, 2019

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Synopsis

While collecting junk one day, best friends Sonny and Sam meet Slappy, a mischievous talking dummy from an unpublished "Goosebumps" book by R.L. Stine. Hoping to start his own family, Slappy kidnaps Sonny's mother and brings all of his ghoulish friends back to life -- just in time for Halloween. As the sleepy town becomes overrun with monsters, witches and other mysterious creatures, Sonny joins forces with his sister, Sam and a kindly neighbor to save Sonny's mom and foil Slappy's plan.

Director: Ari Sandel
Executive Producer: Timothy M. Bourne, Tania Landau
Screenwriter: Rob Lieber
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Scholastic Entertainment Inc., Columbia Pictures, Original Film, Sony Pictures Animation, Silvertongue Films
Rating: PG (Rude Humor|Language|Scary Creature Action & Images|Some Thematic Elements)
Genre: Holiday, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 24, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $46.7M
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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