Ghosts, Creatures, Zombies, and Aliens!
Shout! Factory is on a roll by releasing not one but two volumes of R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour: The Series - Volume 2 to DVD this month. I grew up reading R.L. Stine's books and over the years I have collected almost every DVD of Goosebumps the series that aired during the mid to late 90s on Fox Kids. Goosebumps had a low-budget that resulted in bad acting, cut-down scripts based on the books, and cheap special effects. In other words the series was campy! Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the Goosebumps series for what it was - pure fun.
The Haunting Hour seems to be avoiding the flaws in the Goosebumps series by having better actors and directors, higher quality special effects, and complete scripts. Each episode is not based on an entire book but on short stories that appeared in the two anthologies, The Haunting Hour: Chills in the Dead of Night and...
My 10-year-old loves it!
My son loves Goosebumps, which I find painful to watch (bad acting, mostly). I expected this to be the same, but it is actually done well - a step above. So, he likes it, and I don't mind watching it with him!
wonderful
My adult children and myself enjoyed this immensely. We are anxiously waiting for more volumes to be produced.R.L.Stine is a great writer
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