Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

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Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween

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2018

1h 30m

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Fantasy

Adventure

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While collecting junk one day, best friends Sonny and Sam meet Slappy, a mischievous talking dummy from an unpublished "Goosebumps" book by R.L. Stine. Hoping to start his own family, Slappy kidnaps Sonny's mother and brings all of his ghoulish friends back to life -- just in time for Halloween. As the sleepy town becomes overrun with monsters, witches and other mysterious creatures, Sonny joins forces with his sister, Sam and a kindly neighbor to save Sonny's mom and foil Slappy's plan.

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Critics Consensus

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween offers a handful of treats for very young viewers, but compared to the entertaining original, this sequel is a ding dong to ditch.

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Roxana Hadadi

Chesapeake Family Magazine

10/26/2018

3/5

Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween will amuse young kids, but overall it isn't as lively or exciting as its predecessor, and less screentime for Jack Black is a bummer.

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Jake Wilson

The Age (Australia)

10/23/2018

1.5/5

This lacklustre sequel to the 2015 hit Goosebumps hardly has enough jokes to qualify as a comedy, which leaves it stranded in the netherworld of near-horror, aimed at children supposedly not yet ready for the real thing.

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Mark Kermode

Kermode & Mayo's Film Review

10/22/2018

It lacks the genuinely creepy edge of the original.

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Steven Prokopy

Third Coast Review

07/01/2020

Goosebumps 2 certainly has its heart in the right place, but that doesn't keep it from feeling like stale, year-old candy.

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John Squires

Bloody Disgusting

03/09/2020

2/5

The second film in a franchise with so much existing material to pull from should simply never be this dull.

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Emily Breen

HeyUGuys

06/05/2019

5/5

Subversive, yet always fun for all Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween is spooky with added "Ooo!" and is destined to become a family Halloween classic.

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David S

@IH8Phags69 2h

Phaggot made bull $h!t!!!

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Nicholas T

@nicktalbert2025 Jul 15

goosebumps 2 haunted halloween is not a good movie the movie has gummy bears in the movie they are kind of scary the movie is scary and comedy and horror and family

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Koi P

@hopepink Jul 1

Enjoyed the cast. Fun watch.

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Manavjeet P

@ManavPatil999 Jun 9

The story is pretty straightforward, but I enjoyed seeing all the chaos unfold once the creatures were unleashed. It's the kind of movie you can throw on during October and have a good time with. Not amazing, but definitely a fun and easy watch if you're in the mood for some lighthearted Halloween fun.

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Maddie P.

@Moonwatcher May 20

The reason why I am putting this movie 3 1/2 stars is because I like give some of the parts that we showed more of these monster characters more than a human characters is such as sloppy but I wish they kept the original idea like from the first movie from the first one the destroyer of tease, the invisible boy gonna be the main villain and also the book of the other characters inside eventually escape the book but I will also wish that this movie was a little more different how they did the Halloween setting. but also my second reason if I had to choose and make a second film was that it took place in Holland and all the original characters and some new characters showed up to help Stein with his monster creatures I would also like to see more of the different books from the creatures of like deep trouble, the revenge of the night of the living dummy and the last one about the cat and all the wish like that but I wish it was like that

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Charles T.

@CharlesGaming1000 Apr 15

did everything the first movie did just a bit dumber like all sequels Still watched it when I was very young though, which is why I fucking love it

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Synopsis

While collecting junk one day, best friends Sonny and Sam meet Slappy, a mischievous talking dummy from an unpublished "Goosebumps" book by R.L. Stine. Hoping to start his own family, Slappy kidnaps Sonny's mother and brings all of his ghoulish friends back to life -- just in time for Halloween. As the sleepy town becomes overrun with monsters, witches and other mysterious creatures, Sonny joins forces with his sister, Sam and a kindly neighbor to save Sonny's mom and foil Slappy's plan.

Director: Ari Sandel
Producer: Deborah A. Forte, Neal H. Moritz
Screenwriter: Rob Lieber
Distributor: Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co: Scholastic Entertainment Inc., Original Film, Sony Pictures Animation, Columbia Pictures, Silvertongue Films
Rating: PG (Rude Humor|Language|Scary Creature Action & Images|Some Thematic Elements)
Genre: Holiday, Fantasy, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 12, 2018, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 24, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $46.7M
Runtime: 1h 30m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)