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I enjoyed that one movie when I was a kid where the 3 kids brought a zombie back to life from the museum and they sprayed him with High Karate so the kid's mom wouldn't know he was a zombie and the chick was kinda hot when I was a kid and yeah that movie was cool.
Yeah, Goosebumps was a pretty crappy TV show. I loved the books as a kid, though. It's just that, because they were obviously kid books, you grew out of them before getting through half the series.
And yeah, Are You Afraid of the Dark was 100x better than Goosebumps, because it was actually scary sometimes, as opposed to cheesy and stupid.
Another book series from my childhood that is completely silly in retrospect.
The Boxcar Children.
I mean its about orphaned kids who live in a boxcar, and manage to be happy about it. Then they find a rich uncle. But they still live in the boxcar in the backyard of their uncle's house because they got so used to their lifestyle. So then they just started solving mysteries and shit.
the goosebumps choose-your-own-adventure books were the best
I'd always try to get every possible ending
I would use all my fingers to hold the places of my last decision. Find one of the endings, and then go back to redo my last decision.
What always bothered me was when I would read straight through the book I would find endings I had never found before.
i always got mad at them
i like the ones where you have to choose what you would do rationally
"follow the man in the cave to save your best friend?" "run and get the police?" and you were like "but if i get the police he coul be dead when i get back"
then they started getting lazy
i read one and it was like you come to a maze
"go left" "go right" "go straight"
"you go right, you are eatten by a spider (grue?)"
when I was a kid, I and my siblings watched fucking Night Gallery
It was basically the horror equivalent of Twilight Zone, and it was fucking creepy and I had nightmares on more than one occasion. This shit was scary for the time, and it wasn't targeted at kids.
I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something
I haven't had one for a while, but the last one had a bunch of them hiding in the forest near my house and then coming out when it got dark and I had to escape somehow. I think I ended up dying before I woke up
One was a choose your own about some haunted house witha chick who got hung on her own pigtails (no idea).
The other was one of the Fear Street books. Kids died in a car accident, then they, as ghosts, start plotting to kill the bullies of their old school, and some nerds who constantly fake their death make fun of one of the ghosts for having a heart murmur. All wrath gets focused on them, then another ghost shows up out of nowhere and is like "HA you ran me over". I have no idea.
I remember that, and that I still have the book somewhere around here after stealing it from my cousin.
I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something
I haven't had one for a while, but the last one had a bunch of them hiding in the forest near my house and then coming out when it got dark and I had to escape somehow. I think I ended up dying before I woke up
i am not afraid of velociraptors
i love them soo much
now t rexs
and those underwater ones
god everything underwater
pretty much my biggest fear is the unknown
water creatures are all not there
and then something brushes up against your leg as you swim
i read most of the r.l. stine collection while i was supposed to be paying attention in elementary school
there was actually a pretty scary (back then) series involving the histories of these two families that spend several generations trying to kill each other off, but they weren't goosebumps books
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This was only because I was terrfied by the Family Matters halloween episode. You know the one with the dummy.
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Goosebumps were scary as shit when you were a kid and you all know it.
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only liked one of them back then, and I'm sure if I read it now I'd be like 'man kids are dumb'
bet they're takin' the 'well nobody knows what's good anymore' stance with this goosebumps show shit
wait, didn't they have this show like ten years ago?
And yeah, Are You Afraid of the Dark was 100x better than Goosebumps, because it was actually scary sometimes, as opposed to cheesy and stupid.
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not in the least
and i was an easily scared kid
i used to read ghost stories (real, decent ones) and i wouldn't sleep for a week
t: obbi
they are showing the one from 10 years ago
with the worst actors
it's like they took everyone from soap operas
The Boxcar Children.
I mean its about orphaned kids who live in a boxcar, and manage to be happy about it. Then they find a rich uncle. But they still live in the boxcar in the backyard of their uncle's house because they got so used to their lifestyle. So then they just started solving mysteries and shit.
Just SILLY!
I'm not necessarily saying that they are the best horror writers (though I think they are), but the genre would not be the same without them
I would use all my fingers to hold the places of my last decision. Find one of the endings, and then go back to redo my last decision.
What always bothered me was when I would read straight through the book I would find endings I had never found before.
It really wasn't. Sorry.
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she didn't want me getting nightmares
I liked how every one had the pussy out ending, right at the start.
"There's a haunted carnival in front of you. Do you go in?"
"No."
"You go home, have a snack, and take a nap."
Dude I ate that shit up
I read some scary shit
And I was at least mildly scared by Goosebumps
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i always got mad at them
i like the ones where you have to choose what you would do rationally
"follow the man in the cave to save your best friend?" "run and get the police?" and you were like "but if i get the police he coul be dead when i get back"
then they started getting lazy
i read one and it was like you come to a maze
"go left" "go right" "go straight"
"you go right, you are eatten by a spider (grue?)"
and i am like "this is stupid"
and i threw the book
I still occasionally have dreams about velociraptors stalking me through the aisles of a Costco or something
i think you lie
when I was a kid, I and my siblings watched fucking Night Gallery
It was basically the horror equivalent of Twilight Zone, and it was fucking creepy and I had nightmares on more than one occasion. This shit was scary for the time, and it wasn't targeted at kids.
Edit: Did anyone read any of Christopher Pike's books? Basically Goosebumps with teenage sex.
Give Yourself Goosebumps #33 "It Came From The Internet"
Why have I not heard of this one before?
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I haven't had one for a while, but the last one had a bunch of them hiding in the forest near my house and then coming out when it got dark and I had to escape somehow. I think I ended up dying before I woke up
One was a choose your own about some haunted house witha chick who got hung on her own pigtails (no idea).
The other was one of the Fear Street books. Kids died in a car accident, then they, as ghosts, start plotting to kill the bullies of their old school, and some nerds who constantly fake their death make fun of one of the ghosts for having a heart murmur. All wrath gets focused on them, then another ghost shows up out of nowhere and is like "HA you ran me over". I have no idea.
I remember that, and that I still have the book somewhere around here after stealing it from my cousin.
i am not afraid of velociraptors
i love them soo much
now t rexs
and those underwater ones
god everything underwater
pretty much my biggest fear is the unknown
water creatures are all not there
and then something brushes up against your leg as you swim
and you are boned
there was actually a pretty scary (back then) series involving the histories of these two families that spend several generations trying to kill each other off, but they weren't goosebumps books
always wins
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