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Showing posts with label goosebumps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goosebumps. Show all posts

Thursday, June 27, 2019

JACK-O

  
Fun Fact: Jack-O is one of the worst horror movies and best first ladies of all time. I am, of course, more inclined to write about the horror movie than the first lady, because I have seen the horror movie three times under various levels of intoxication. (And I have seen the first lady zero times under zero levels of intoxication. Man, this blog is getting weird.)
  
Anyway, Jack-O is an ultra-low-budget Pumpkinhead story from the early 90s. (There are no pill-box hats in sight.) I was planning to write up a blog post about this movie after I watched it last year, but I honestly could not think of anything clever or interesting to say about it, so I just let the memories fade into the back of my pumpkin head.
  
Today, when I was cleaning out my computer and looking at all my random saved photos (Hello, Eartha Kitt from Ernest Scared Stupid!), I came across the above picture. Now I honestly could not remember if this was a screen cap from Jack-O or an episode of Goosebumps. I believe it is actually from Goosebumps. But the fact that there was ever any doubt really says a lot about Jack-O. And basically, what it says is please do not watch Jack-O.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

GOOSEBUMPS

I have recently rediscovered Goosebumps books (no idea why) and was faintly amused by the number of issues that are based on examples of classic literature. Let us take a look...

Rips off: The Body Snatchers by Jack Finney

But adds: group hugs


Rips off: The Black Cat by Edgar Allen Poe

But adds: a cat tornado. Seriously.

Rips off: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

But adds: werewolves

Rips off: The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Aesop

But adds: evil librarians

Rips off: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

But adds: alien twins and ghosts

Rips off: Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

But adds: Zac Efron and songs about togetherness