The central monster of “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” — Slappy, a sentient ventriloquist dummy driven by revenge and delusions of grandeur — is horrifying to behold, and the movie never lets you ...

R.L. Stine's great Goosebumps literary villain Slappy had to appear in a movie based on the best-selling children's horror books. Seriously, somebody would have been a real dummy not to include the ...

If 2015’s Goosebumps aimed to connect with more than just the generations of kids raised on R.L. Stine’s enormously popular book series, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween seems to narrow the scope of ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

The lawn ornaments from the novel, “Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes,” are causing trouble in the kitchen when the begin to attack Zach, Champ, Hannah and her father R.L. Stine (Jack Black). Star of the the ...

R.L. Stine's great Goosebumps literary villain Slappy had to appear in a movie based on the best-selling children's horror books. Seriously, somebody would have been a real dummy not to include the ...