George Romero’s GOOSEBUMPS! is another addition on the list of outstanding horror movies that could have been.
A Goosebumps movie created by George Romero has risen from the dead, according to fresh facts revealed by the University of Pittsburgh Library System Horror Studies Branch.
Many of us are familiar with and like the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series of books, which first appeared in 1992. The series introduced a younger audience to horror and introduced many of us to some terrifying stories that have stayed with us to this day.
Goosebumps books have sold millions of copies throughout the world, and a television series based on them aired in 1995, which is still available in various media today.
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Goosebumps was adapted for the big picture in 2015, starring Jack Black as R.L. Stine. Stine’s storey takes place in a community that he must save from all of the creatures he has created in his books.
The residents of Dark Falls in Welcome to Dead House are not ordinary humans, but the living dead. They’re not quite zombies, and they’re not quite vampires, and they have to suck on the blood of a new family every year to stay alive. When the Benson family moves to town, Josh and Amanda learn about the community’s secret. They do their best to fight the zombified locals, realising that a flashlight beam may turn the undead into dust, freeing them from their curse.
Foster Devries, the long-dead village patriarch, has possessed the town and imposed his supernatural abilities on the citizens. Living in Dark Falls means living a fundamentally degraded and limited life, one that forces you to contribute to the predatory, parasitic system by searching out new victims.
The idea and all of the primary character names have been retained, but the tale has been modified in the ways we’ve come to expect from Romero’s films: accentuating social, political, and commercial horrors disguised as zombies raised from the dead.
It wasn’t a follow-up to Night, Dawn, and Day, but it was a zombie film through and through.
