Get ready for some good old fashioned scares in the new Disney+ series Goosebumps, which will also stream on Hulu, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The series will be based off of the iconic novels originally authored by R.L. Stine.
Audiences have seen the teaser trailer, but the official, full-length trailer has revealed some interesting plot points that are sure to give some kinds a good frightening. The trailer itself utilizes some jump scares with rapper Travis Scott’s song “Goosebumps” playing in the background. Watch the trailer below.
Five high schoolers lead the frightful group, The Hollywood Reporter states that the teenagers “embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle – while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past.” The five teenagers are portrayed by Miles McKenna (Guilty Party, Good Girls Get High), Zack Morris (EastEnders), Isa Briones (Star Trek: Picard, Lonely Boy), Will Price (The Mosquito Coast, Isle Child) and Ana Yi Puig (Senior Year, Jade Armor). Goosebumps will also star actor Justin Long (Accepted, Tusk), Long is possessed by a dark entity about halfway through the trailer.
Fittingly, the series will be available to stream on Disney+ and Hulu on Friday, October 13. The first two episodes are also set to air on Disney-owned network channel Freeform as a part of the 31 Days of Halloween special programming,
This is the second television adaptation of Goosebumps, the first one airing from 1995 to 1998; it were also made into feature films in 2015 and 2018. The Goosebumps airing this October is based of Stine’s most popular stories from the Goosebumps universe. These stories include Night of the Living Dummy, Go Eat Worms!, Say Cheese and Die!, The Cuckoo Clock of Doom and The Haunted Mask.
Sony Pictures Television and Disney Branded Television produce Goosebumps. Developers of the show include Rob Letterman (Shark Tales, Gulliver’s Travels), who also directed the first Goosebumps movie to hit theaters and Nicholas Stoller (Bros, Platonic). Stoller and Letterman also serve as executive producers alongside Hilary Winston (Bad Teacher, The Bad Guys), Iole Lucchese (Clifford the Big Red Dog, Playing Cupid), Neal H. Moritz (S.W.A.T., Save Me), Conor Welch (Platonic, Panhandle), Pavun Shetty (The Boys, New Girl), Caitlin Friedman (The Angel Tree, Playing Cupid), Kevin Murphy (Hellcats, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) and Erin O’Malley (Dealin’ with Idiots, Mango Kiss).