Is it hard to take Goosebumps seriously because of the movies?
The Shows themselves aren't super scary but they had their moments,while the movies are straight up corny. Its a shame these days you got to dumb stuff down for kids
shareWas the show ever meant to be taken seriously?
The only episode that I remember actually being creepy is The Haunted Mask. That episode is genuinely creepy, even for adult viewers. But I don't remember feeling that way about any of the others. The show overall was pretty goofy.
The Haunted Mask was the pilot episode, and it seemed like they pulled back from the intensity of that episode for the rest of the series.
I thought Welcome To Dead House was another one similar to The Haunted Mask on creepy level and stuff. Everything else though seemed to be laughable/goofy and stuff. A Night In Terror Tower would be another one. But when it came to Welcome To Dead House, I always got freaked out and stuff by the episode when the daughter is sleeping and that one ghost girl comes into her room and tells her to get out and leave or something like that. When I was a kid, I was always afraid of something like that happening to me. But I think The Haunted Mask, Welcome To Dead House, and A Night In Terror Tower were the more serious/creepy episodes while the rest were on the goofy side.
shareI can't say for sure if I saw Dead House or Terror Tower, but they sound interesting so I may have to see if I can find them.
I rewatched The Haunted Mask a couple of years ago, and l really did find that one to be legitimately unsettling. It's actually a very good episode on all levels--writing, directing, acting--and if the rest of the show could've lived up to it then it would've been a great juvenile horror show.
But instead, there was too much goofy bullshit like Say Cheese and Die, another episode that I revisted and that reminded of all the ways the show failed to live up to its potential.
The Most scary
Haunted Mask
Girl who cried Monster
Stay out of the Basement
Werewolf of Fever Swamp
Headless Ghost
Attack of the Jack O lanterns
Calling all Creeps
Bride of the living dummy
Dead house
The Campy ones imo were
You can't scare me(I bursted out laughing when Charlotte Sullivan is giving the monster a lecture)
Go eat worms
Bad Hare Day
Lawn Gnomes
Vampire Breath
Chillogy
The others weren't over the top scary but had some thrilling moments. Also the books for kid stories were quite scary,the show even toned some of them down a bit
Thanks for the list.
It's hard to remember which ones I've seen and haven't seen, since it's been so long. But I may try to track a few of these down if possible. It's October now, after all!