
REVIEW — Goosebumps: One Day At Horrorland (R. L. Stine, 1994)
For our third installment of an OG Goosebumps book review, I picked the story from an episode I have seen a million times: One Day at Horrorland.
For our third installment of an OG Goosebumps book review, I picked the story from an episode I have seen a million times: One Day at Horrorland.
If you are a Millennial, you know this theme song by heart. The maestro of the macabre, strumming the strings of our haunted souls. A dreadful treat for your ears, tickling the ivories while tip-toeing through dark rooms and hallways. The theme to nightmares itself: Goosebumps. This theme song is ingrained in our minds forever more, bearing the power to possess our psyche and bring us back to a time of nostalgia and fright. It is the one. Viewer beware, you’re in for a scare!
I’m continuing my Goosebumps kick with 1997’s The Haunted School. Bell Valley Middle School has some secrets, and new student Tommy gets right in the middle of this ghostly mystery.
It’s not the first book in the series, but Stay Out of the Basement is one whose imagery is forever cemented in my head.
Six-year-old me was not ready for this level of excitement and terror!
The one thing we trust enough to defend our crops from scavengers sure has a nasty habit of being put into stories about coming alive and committing murder.
Here we look at 5 instances where the show perhaps went a little too spooky for childrens’ programming.
When the parents are away, the nightmares come out to play.