| “ | I think it's time I started pulling the strings in this relationship. Tonight is gonna be the best story you've ever written. All of your children are coming out to play... | „ |
| ~ Slappy the Dummy revealing his plans to R.L. Stine |
| “ | All my friends in one place! I've never been so happy! I don't want this day to end, and it doesn't have to, as long as we get rid of Stine! | „ |
| ~ Slappy after releasing all monsters from the Goosebumps books |
The Goosebumps monsters are the main antagonists of the 2015 live-action horror film Goosebumps, based on the horror book franchise of the same name, as well as the main antagonists of the 2018 upcoming sequel, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween.
They are creations of R.L. Stine's imagination that came alive, so he was forced to lock them into the Goosebumps books to prevent them from causing disasters in the real world. After being released by Slappy the Dummy from their imprisonment in the books, they helped him destroy the town and take revenge against Stine.
History
Background
According to what Stine narrates at one point in the film, he created all the monsters, demons and creatures of the Goosebumps book franchise when he was a child to deal with the bullying and intimidation he suffered from other children in his neighborhood. Initially, the monsters were Stine's best friends but they soon became unstable and came alive in the real world, causing panic, death and destruction in the town.
Stine was forced to write the Goosebumps books to catch the monsters in their pages and kept them imprisoned in the books for years while they began to hold a big grudge against him for his "betrayal". However, the first book Stine ever wrote, Haunted Halloween, was unknowingly left behind in Wardenclyffe, New York as Stine moved out.
Release
After Zach Cooper and Champ accidentally release the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena from his book at Stine's house, it hits the Goosebumps bookshelf and flees. With Hannah's help, they follow it to a local ice rink to suck him back in its book.
Meanwhile, the Night of the Living Dummy book opens after it has fallen off the bookshelf, freeing Slappy the Dummy who waits for Stine and the kids to return home. When Stine tries to absorb it again in his book, Slappy takes it off and sets it on fire to avoid being locked up forever, while fleeing the house carrying all the Goosebumps books.
Slappy opens The Haunted Car freeing the same name car as means of transportation and releases the Lawn Gnomes from Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes to attack and distract Stine and the children.
After arriving in the town with the Haunted Car, Slappy opens several more Goosebumps books releasing their monsters in different places, one more time causing panic, death and destruction around: E. Ville Creeper's Plants from You're Plant Food! destroy the cell towers to incommunicate the town, the Body Squeezers from Invasion of the Body Squeezers freeze the police station and Fifi the Vampire Poodle from Please Don't Feed the Vampire! attacks Zach's aunt.
Later, while Stine, Zach, Hannah and Champ drive to Madison High School to find a magical typewriter that can create a story to suck all the monsters back, they are attacked by Brent Green from My Best Friend is Invisible and the Giant Praying Mantis from A Shocker on Shock Street. The group hides in a local supermarket where they are chased by the Werewolf of Fever Swamp (which is later run over by Zach's aunt in the parking lot). Zach tells his aunt to ask for help at the police station, but when she arrives, she is frozen by the Body Squeezers while Slappy discovers Stine's plans to suck the Goosebumps monsters back into their books. In the cemetery, the group is attacked by the Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls and finally arrive to the school where they warn students and teachers about the inminent attack that is coming. Stine goes to the auditorium to write a new Goosebumps book based on all the events since the beginning of the film.
Meanwhile, Slappy (with the help of the Haunted Car and the Lawn Gnomes) opens the rest of books and sets them on fire, freeing all the monsters, demons and creatures of the Goosebumps franchise on the football field, where he tells them that the only way they will be free forever is killing their creator: R.L. Stine.
The Goosebumps monsters attack the school in search of Stine. The Bees from Why I'm Afraid of Bees manage to enter through the library's ventilation ducts while the rest of monsters enter with the help of the Annihilator 3000 from Toy Terror: Batteries Included. Slappy finds Stine and breaks his fingers with the typewriter to prevent him from finishing the book. Stine, Zach, Hannah and Champ flee from the school to and abandoned amusement park to finish the book, being followed by the Goosebumps monsters army.
Final Confrontation and First Defeat
Following the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, the monsters arrive to the amusement park, where Slappy releases the Blob That Ate Everyone, which destroy the funhouse where Stine and the kids hid. Zach, Hannah and Champ climb onto a Ferris wheel while Stine confronts the Blob, giving them enough time to finish the book. Unfortunately, the Giant Praying Mantis destroy the Ferris wheel's bolts, causing it to roll into the forest and crash into a tree.
The kids survive and Hannah tells Zach to open the book, but he knows that if he does, she will also be absorbed because, as Stine revealed earlier that night, she is a Goosebumps character (i.e. Hannah Fairchild from The Ghost Next Door) created following the passing of Stine's wife. While the monsters are running toward them, Hannah reveals that she already knew about her true identity and opens it, sucking one by one all the Goosebumps monsters (including herself and Slappy) back to the book.
Some time later, it is revealed that Brent Green was the only monster that was not absorbed by the book, surprising a horrified Stine and writing a new Goosebumps book titled The Invisible Boy's Revenge.
Slappy's Return
Slappy was eventually released from Haunted Halloween when the book was discovered by Sonny Quinn and his friend Sam Carter. Though lifeless at first, Sonny reads the incantation "Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano". When the boys leave the house with Slappy, deciding to keep him, they are encountered by Tommy Madigan, a school bully who takes the book for himself. The now-alive Slappy uses his magic to pull Tommy's pants down, giving Sonny and Sam an opening to escape. Tommy and his cronies chase Sonny and Sam on their bikes until they are knocked over by a hose controlled by Slappy.
At home, Sonny is working on his science project, a miniature version of Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe tower that he has trouble operating, when Slappy reveals his sentience to the boys. Fortunately for them, he explains that he wishes to be their brother and gains their trust by using his magic to do fold Sonny's choirs and fill out his algebra homework. Slappy secretly modifies Sonny's model while everyone is asleep.
Slappy's Betrayal
The next day, Slappy hitches a ride on the backpack of Sonny's sister Sarah and goes to the auditorium, where her boyfriend Tyler is on a ladder hanging ghosts up. Slappy uses his magic to disassemble the ladder as revenge for him cheating on Sarah the previous night, the fall causing Tyler to end up in the hospital. Meanwhile at Sonny's school, Sonny shows off his now-functional project. However, Slappy's modifications causes the tower to blast a hole in the classroom wall.
After the boys admit Slappy's sentience to Sarah, they return home to confront the dummy. Sonny tries to read the words on Slappy's card to make him go back to sleep, but the idea backfires. After the kids' mother Kathy tells Sonny off for the science lad accident and Sarah for failing to keep things under control, Sarah hits Slappy with a baseball bat, knocking him out.
The kids lock Slappy in a suitcase and dump him into a river. However, Slappy somehow escapes and jumps on in front of Sarah's car. In a fit of rage, he exclaims that he just wants to be part of a family while pounding on the windshield of Sarah's car. Slappy is eventually thrown off the car when Sarah slams the breaks. Unfortunately, as Sonny points out, things have only gotten worse.
Bringing Halloween to Life
While the kids are at home reading about the events at Madison, Delaware, Slappy makes his way to Fred's Pharmacy, intent on making a family of his own in order to bury Halloween alive. Using the "Karru Marri Odonna Loma Molonu Karrano" incantation, Slappy makes to bring several assorted Halloween merchandise to life, including three Ghostly Witches and Goosebumps-themed costumes of the Werewolf of Fever Swamp and the Abominable Snowman. Walter, the manager of the pharmacy catches the monster mob, only for a Haunted Mask to fly onto his face, turning him into an Igor-esque ogre that immediately becomes Slappy's right-hand monster. Together, the monsters march out of the pharmacy.
Sonny, Sarah, and Sam run into the Ghostly Witches when they abduct Tommy and his cronies while the kids are looking for Haunted Halloween. Meanwhile, Slappy and Walter are at the real-life Wardenclyffe tower, where Slappy says his incantation to reactivate the tower, thus enabling him to bring all the Halloween decorations across Wardenclyffe to come to life, including Jack O'Lanterns, a pair of Lawn Gnomes left behind at Stine's old house, a skeleton bride and groom, a Headless Horseman, and a giant balloon spider made by the kids' neighbor, Goosebumps fanboy Mr. Chu.
While at Tommy's house, Sonny used the book to suck up Evil Gummy Bears that attack him and Sam. He then does the same with the skeleton bride and groom while Sarah fights them off. Reading the incomplete manuscript, Sarah discovers that Slappy wanted a mother, meaning he was going after Kathy. The kids return home, where Sonny smashes Sargent Squash, a Fire-Breathing Jack O'Lantern, and Terry the Pumpkin. However, Kathy gets webbed up and taken to the Wardenclyffe Tower by the Balloon Spider while the book gets stolen by a bedsheet ghost. Fortunately, Mr. Chu (who was disguised as a mummy) manages to save the kids from the monster mob by hiding them in his house.
Second Defeat
At the Wardenclyffe Tower, Slappy reveals his sentience to Kathy before using another incantation to turn her into a human ventriloquist's dummy. After explaining the situation to Mr. Chu, he makes some Halloween costumes for the kids to safely navigate through the town; Sonny dresses as a Pumpkinhead, Sarah as a witch, and Sam as a skeleton. Stine, having received an earlier call from Sarah, arrives in Wardenclyffe and gains second wind against the Lawn Gnomes before driving towards the Tower to escape from the Ghostly Witches.
After getting inside the Tower, Sarah chases after Slappy, who is intent on destroying Haunted Halloween while Sonny and Sam cause turn up the Tower to a high level, hoping to overload the system. Cornered by the Balloon Spider, Sarah surrenders the book in exchange for Slappy promising to turn Kathy back to normal. However, Slappy discovers too late that Sarah gave him a decoy made from a copy of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.
Sarah then kicks Slappy into the Tower's electric core, shocking him enough to be blasted into the sky, thus turning Kathy back to normal. Sarah then opens Haunted Halloween, which gets its magical properties enhanced by electricity from the Tower, to suck up all the remaining monsters across Wardenclyffe, during which Walter turns back to normal. Stine arrives following the kids' victory, and they return the manuscript to him. As Stine departs, he offers Sarah advise that enables her to complete her application essay for Colombia University.
Around Christmas time, Stine adds Haunted Halloween to his collection of Goosebumps manuscripts, which he recovered following the crisis at Madison. However, Slappy suddenly appears before him, revealing that he survived and, during his disappearance, wrote a new Goosebumps book starring Stine as the main character that he promptly traps Stine in, finally getting payback after all these years.
List of Monsters
- Slappy the Dummy from the Night of the Living Dummy saga (leader)
- Hannah Fairchild from The Ghost Next Door (formerly)
- The Abominable Snowman from The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena
- Will Blake from The Werewolf of Fever Swamp
- Walter, under the control of a Haunted Mask based off the Old Man Mask from The Haunted Mask II
- The Lawn Gnomes from Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes
- Three Ghostly Witches
- The Giant Praying Mantis from A Shocker on Shock Street
- The Haunted Car from the same name book
- Brent Green from My Best Friend is Invisible
- A Giant Balloon Spider based off the spiders featured in Night of the Giant Everything
- The Body Squeezers from Invasion of the Body Squeezers
- E. Ville Creeper's Plants from You're Plant Food!
- The Blob from The Blob That Ate Everyone
- Evil Gummy Bears
- The Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls
- Fifi the Vampire Poodle and Countess Yvonne from Please Don't Feed the Vampire!
- The Pumpkinheads from Attack of the Jack-O'-Lanterns
- The Scarecrows from The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight
- Murder the Clown from A Nightmare on Clown Street
- Carly Beth, under the control of the original Haunted Mask from The Haunted Mask
- Prince Khor-Ru and Nila Rahmad from Return of the Mummy
- The Creeps from Calling All Creeps!
- Cronby the Troll and the Muglani from Deep in the Jungle of Doom
- Count Nightwing from Vampire Breath
- Madame Doom from Help! We Have Strange Powers!
- The Lord High Executioner from A Night in Terror Tower
- The Swamp Monster from How to Kill a Monster
- Captain Long Ben One-Leg from Creep from the Deep
- Professor Shock and a Cyborg from The Creepy Creations of Professor Shock
- Flying Jack O'Lanterns
- The Snake Lady from Escape from the Carnival of Horrors
- Clarissa from Be Careful What You Wish For...
- A Dracula-esque Vampire, not likely to be Count Nightwing
- A lobster-clawed Swamp Monster, possibly the Shaggedy from Here Comes the Shaggedy
- Red Vixen, a Bride of Frankenstein-esque Monster Bride
- A Skeleton Bride and Groom based off the Ghost Couple from The House of No Return
- A Grey Alien, possibly a Splatter from Earth Geeks Must Go!
- An Undead Pirate, possibly Captain Jack the Knife from Attack of the Jack!
- The Grim Reaper
- Bedsheet Ghosts
- A Banshee
- A Blue Troll
- A Bat Monster
- A Red-Haired Ghoul
- Three Calaca Ladies
- Two Gnome-like Goblins
- The Headless Horseman
- Annihilator 3000s from Toy Terror: Batteries Included
- Bees from Why I'm Afraid of Bees
- Sargent Squash, a Jack O'Lantern carved by Sam Carter
- A Fire-Breathing Jack O'Lantern carved by Sonny Quinn
- Terry the Pumpkin
- Mummies from The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
- The Shrunken Head from How I Got My Shrunken Head
- The Cuckoo Clock from The Cuckoo Clock of Doom
- Halloween Bags
- A Candy Bowl Monster Hand
- Rubber Bats
- Rubber Rats
- Skull-Headed Spiders
Trivia
- Slappy the Dummy, the Lawn Gnomes, the Werewolf of Fever Swamp, the Giant Praying Mantis and the Abominable Snowman of Pasaadena are the most seen monsters in the first film.
- Jack Black, who played R.L. Stine, also was the voice of Slappy the Dummy (in the first film only) and Brent Green.
- The first film marks the first theatrical debut of several monsters of the Goosebumps franchise.
- The Giant Praying Mantis never appeared in the TV adaptation of A Shocker on Shock Street.
- The Haunted Car, the Body Squeezers, the Annihilator 3000, the E. Ville Creeper's Plants, the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena, Fifi the Vampire Poodle, the Snake Lady, the Graveyard Ghouls, Cronby the Troll, the Muglani, Professor Shock, Countess Yvonne, the Bees and the Mummies never appeared in the Goosebumps television series.
- Madame Doom, Captain Long Ben One-Leg and Murder the Clown never appeared in the TV series because their Goosebumps series (Goosebumps HorrorLand and Goosebumps Most Wanted, respectively) were released several years after the series end.
- The Werewolf of Fever Swamp, Prince Khor-Ru, the Scarecrows, the Swamp Monster and the Graveyard Ghouls appear even through they have been killed off in their previous books. The second movie justifies this for the Werewolf and Prince Khor-Ru, as they are Halloween costumes brought to life and not the actual book characters.
- R.L. Stine refers to the Werewolf of Fever Swamp and the Blob That Ate Everyone for the title of their books instead of their real names.
- Between both films, Slappy the Dummy, Brent Green, the Annihilator 3000s, the Lawn Gnomes, a Scarecrow, Professor Shock, Sargent Squash, the Fire-Breathing Jack O'Lantern, and Terry are the only monsters who have dialogue. Hannah Fairchild also counts due to her nature as a ghost, as does Walter since he was a normal human before being turned into a monster by Slappy. Meanwhile, all the other monsters only growl, shriek, and moan. Murder the Clown laughs but does not peak, while only one Gummy Bear talks while the others laugh and growl.
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