R.L. Stine Archives

When Good Ghouls Go Bad (2001)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 5, 2015Children's Halloween Film

Halloween film for children from the pen of horror author R.L. Stine of Goosebumps fame. The children's horror story (and tv movie) is filled with many insipid and formulaic entries but this is a decent one that is not unafraid to scare people

Director: Patrick Read Johnson

Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Roy Billing, Brendan McCarthy

Category: Horror

5 February 20158 July 2025 by Roog

Goosebumps (2015)

Rating: ★★

Oct 25, 2015Horror Writer's Creations Unleashed

A film based on the hugely popular children's horror series. The film creates a story where the creatures from all the books are unleashed. This is fun to watch, yet what we ultimately have is easy, undemanding horror for family audiences

Director: Rob Letterman

Actors: Jack Black, Dylan Minette, Odeya Rush, Amy Ryan, …

Category: Horror

25 October 201526 February 2026 by Roog

Goosebumps 2 (2018)

Rating: ★★

Apr 14, 2019Evil Ventriloquist's Dummy Amok

The second film spun off from R.L. Stine's popular horror stories promotes the wonderfully evil ventriloquist's dummy Slappy to principal nemesis. The rest of the film is predictable but Slappy deserves his own series

Director: Ari Sandel

Actors: Jeremy Ray Taylor, Madison Iseman, Caleel Harris, Mark Winert, …

Category: Horror

14 April 201926 February 2026 by Roog

Fear Street 1994 (2021)

Rating: ★★

Jul 30, 2021Slasher Film/R.L. Stine Adaptation

The first of the Fear Street films, somewhat more adult than the usual R.L. Stine adaptations. This can be considered the first Woke era slasher film

Director: Leigh Janiak

Actors: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr, Julia Rehwald, …

Category: Horror

30 July 202121 October 2025 by Roog

Fear Street 1978 (2021)

Rating: ★★½

Jul 31, 2021Slasher Homage/R.L. Stine Adaptation

The second of the R.L. Stine adapted Fear Street films, this one takes the action back to 1978 where it then becomes a vigorous homage to the slasher film

Director: Leigh Janiak

Actors: Emily Rudd, Sadie Sink, Ted Sutherland, Ryan Simpkins, …

Category: Horror

31 July 20211 February 2026 by Roog

Fear Street 1666 (2021)

Rating: ★

Jul 31, 2021Witch Persecution/R.L. Stine Adaptation

The third of the Fear Street films, this takes the story back to a 17th Century filled with absurdly modern attitudes and offers an explanation that ties everything together

Director: Leigh Janiak

Actors: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr, …

Category: Horror

31 July 202121 October 2025 by Roog

Zombie Town (2023)

Rating: ★

Jul 7, 2024R.L. Stine Adaptation/Zombies Emerge Out of a Film

An adaptation of an R.L. Stine book, a work of safe anodyne horror about zombies trapped inside a film made by director Dan Aykroyd getting loose and overrunning a town

Director: Peter Lepeniotis

Actors: Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Marlon Kazadi, Madi Monroe, …

Category: Horror

7 July 20248 June 2026 by Roog

Fear Street: Prom Queen (2025)

Rating: ★★½

May 30, 2025Slasher Film Homage

Follow-up to the R.L. Stine-based Fear Street films of a couple of years back, this conducts a not bad homage to the 1980s slasher film and gets the period setting right

Director: Matt Palmer

Actors: India Fowler, Katherine Waterston, Lili Taylor, Chris Klein, …

Category: Horror

30 May 202513 November 2025 by Roog