Goosebumps returns to its horror roots with a new Disney Plus series

Should you have been a child who grew up across the flip of the millennium, likelihood is your preliminary introduction to horror was by one in all 3 ways: Studying R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps kids’s books and watching the tv sequence that aired on Fox Children, watching Are You Afraid of the Darkish? on Nickelodeon, or staying up late to look at episodes of Tales from the Crypt on HBO.

Should you match into the primary class, I’ve some nice information: Goosebumps is coming again with an all-new sequence premiering on Disney Plus and Hulu this October.

Relatively than being a simple anthology horror sequence, this new incarnation of Goosebumps appears to be taking a web page from the 2015 comedy horror movie starring Jack Black, centering on 5 youngsters who should work collectively to recapture a swath of malevolent supernatural forces they inadvertently unleashed whereas diving into the buried previous of their mother or father’s personal uncommon adolescence.

Don’t rely on their being a lot in the best way of snickers, nonetheless; the brief announcement date teaser for the sequence appears to actually emphasize the “horror” side of the sequence’ comedy-horror origins, that includes an host of spine-chilling scenes together with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it shot of Slappy, the enduring possessed ventriloquist doll from the traditional Goosebumps guide Night time of the Residing Dummy.

Goosebumps premieres Oct. 13 on Hulu and Disney Plus.