EASTER EGGS YOU MISSED IN GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN
Ghosts and ghouls and monsters are about, my friends!
Halloween is almost here, meaning its time to get into the spooky spirit, and what better
way to do that than to dive into one of our favourite series, Goosebumps!
The film just came out, and its got a whole lot of fun filled scares and outrageous laughs
that will have you all hyped up over the holiday.
So today we’re counting down the refences and Easter Eggs you missed in Goosebumps 2
Haunted Halloween!
But before we begin our video, we just want to give a major shout out to our sponsor,
Goosebumps!
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It also features in-game events related to the Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween film, too!
The game is available on the app store or google play store today, so go check it out!
We have links in the video description below!
Alright, now on to the video!
5 Returning Monsters Slappy the Dummy is back!
Slappy, who has long been a reoccurring villain in the Goosebumps franchise, is resurrected
once more in this sequel film.
Since his debut in the books in 1993 in the Night of the Living Dummy, he’s arguably
become the most popular villain AND character when it comes to Goosebumps, reoccurring the
most in Goosebumps media.
He’s not the only character who has a history from the books though; Slappy recruits several
monster allies to help bring about the Halloween Apocalypse.
The Abominable Snowman returns in this movie; he’s a character from the novel The Abominable
Snowman of Pasadena.
Will Blake in his werewolf form is there too, and he’s from the Werewolf of Fever Swamp.
The Lawn Gnomes, while a staple in suburban horror, originate from two Goosebumps books,
the Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes and Planet of the Lawn Gnomes, and the Scarecrows are
inspired from the novel The Scarecrow Walks at Midnight.
Plus, there’s a whole lot of mummies who make cameos, and fans of the books will likely
recognize them as familiar creatures from the wildly popular novel The Curse of the
Mummy’s Tomb.
4 Game Cameos Many of the new monsters that appear in the
film also make an appearance in the Horror Town game!
You’ll notice new creatures like headless horsemen, winged jack-o-lanterns, gummy bears,
a giant balloon spider, and much much more!
The game will be introducing many of these new terrifying faces, with upcoming inclusions
to the game being the bed sheet ghosts, balloon spiders, inflatable lawn ghosts, and a very
special scene that will introduce giant gummy bears!
3 Bride of Frankenstein Speaking of new monsters, the Bride of Frankenstein
makes an appearance in this movie.
Like many of the creatures and monsters that appear in the franchise, many of these horror
icons have much deeper gothic roots in the genre.
The Bride of Frankenstein, in particular, was initially introduced in Mary Shelley’s
1818 novel Frankenstein, but became more of a pop culture icon thanks to the 1935 science
fiction horror movie The Bride of Frankenstein, which was a sequel to the 1931 Frankenstein
hit film.
Elsa Lanchester plays the title character, and also plays Mary Shelley, too.
Plus!
One of the original goosebumps books from the Goosebumps Series 2000 also plays on the
Bride of Frankenstein, the Bride of the Living Dummy.
It’s part of the Living Dummy saga, and is also an allusion to the 1998 film Bride
of Chucky.
In the plot of that novel,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_of_Frankenstein 2 Nikola Telsa
The film takes place in the town of Wardenclyffe.
But did you know that Wardenclyffe is actually a real place?
So at the start of the film, within the first 60 seconds, you may have noticed a statue
prominently featured.
That statue is of Nikola Telsa, the scientist who conducted many early experimental wireless
transmissions experiments there.
His whole schtick was that he wanted to transmit messages, telephone and even images across
the Atlantic to England, all based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the
signals.
The tower he worked at on Long Island New York was eventually demolished because of
Tesla’s debts.
1 RL Stine Jack Black may play RL Stine, the creator
of Goosebumps, in the film, just like he did in the original, but RL Stine actually has
his own Stan Lee-esque cameo in the movie.
Stine recently spoke with ScreenRant about his thoughts on Black’s portrayal of him,
saying, I quote, “Not accurate at all!”
The two had met in New York and Jack asked Stine what about the script was true concerning
him, to which Stine replied, nothing, not one thing, none of its true!
So Jack decided to play it as a sinister version of Stine instead.
Before we go, one more big shout out to Goosebumps and their Horror Town game, available for
download in the google store or app store today.
And be sure to check out Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween in theatres now!