We all got our start in the genre
somewhere. For me and probably a lot of others my age my first
exposure to horror came from Scooby Doo at a very early age and then
of course the Saturday afternoon horror hosts who showed all the
classic Universal and Hammer films all afternoon. For my kids it has
come in the form of R.L. STINE and the very popular GOOSEBUMP series
of books and the TV show that the books spawned.
Come September a trio of films based on
the books are going to be available on DVD. Check out the press
release below for all the info:
NIGHT OF
THE LIVING DUMMY
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SINK
SAY CHEESE AND
DIE
Based On The Best-Selling
Children’s Books And
The Award-Winning Kids’ Show, Three Hair
Raising Stories
Debut On DVD September 11 From Fox Home
Entertainment
Street Date: September
11, 2007
DVDs Priced at $9.98 U.S. / $11.98
Canada
Launch Highlights:
Based on the worldwide
phenomenon spawned by R.L. Stine’s children’s books, the all-time
best-selling series for kids, and the award-winning show that
consistently ranked as the #1 rated kids’ show while it was on the
Fox Kids Network, three new Goosebumps®
titles emerge from the shadows on DVD September 4 from Fox Home
Entertainment.
Arriving
for the first time on DVD, Night
Of The Living Dummy, It
Came From Beneath The Sink and
Say Cheese And Die
tell the stories of evil puppets, ghoulish houses, and deadly
cameras. Intertwined with relatable children characters, all
three new nail-biting thrillers are perfect haunts for young children
everywhere.
Night Of The Living Dummy II
Amy Kramer's ventriloquist dummy,
Dennis, keeps losing his head, literally, and Amy has been pestering
her Dad for weeks to get her a new one. Little does she know that
when he does, and he does, she will regret it deeply. Amy's Dad
brings home a new dummy called Slappy, and on the first night after
his arrival, a series of strange pranks begin to happen, that
everyone in the family seems to deny playing. However, Amy begins to
realize the truth, though no one will believe her, and it may soon be
too late...
Bride Of The Living Dummy
Katie, Harrison, Jillian, and Katie's
annoying doll Mary-Ellen were seeing a show put on by the famous
ventriloquist Jimmie O' James, who was using his dummy, Slappy.
However, as most would know, Slappy is no normal dummy. He's alive.
And, while at the show, it would seem that he fell in love with
Katie's doll. When Jillian searched for her sister after she forgot
Mary-Ellen, she met Jimmie O' James, and Jimmie gave her an
autographed photo and she gave her address. However, Jimmie used the
address to send Slappy to Jillian. And now strange things are
happening around the house. Scary things. Evil things. And Jillian
and Katie get the hint when Slappy steals their Mom's wedding ring.
It Came >From Beneath The
Sink
Katrina "Kat" Merton and
her brother, Daniel, are just moving into a new house, and all looks
like it's going to go well for their family, as they have not had to
move far away from their district at all. However, that luck is about
to change, when Kat finds a strange sponge under the kitchen sink, a
sponge that has eyes and fangs, and bad, unlucky things happen
whenever it's around. Their mother's prized china dishes break,
Daniel's foot is cut on a piece of glass, Kat falls off of her bike,
their garden begins to wilt, and things are only getting worse.
However, when Kat, Daniel, and Daniel's friend Carlos get rid of the
sponge, they learn from research that whoever finds the sponge and
gets rid of it, will face dangerous consequences...
Strained Peas
Nicholas is at first optimistic about
getting a baby sister, but his friend tells him all the cons. When
his parents arrive, he meets his sister Grace. But Grace is no normal
baby. She makes a block message that says "Only me." And
she pukes on Nicholas when he goes to comfort her when she is crying
in the night. Nicholas can take a hint when she eats his pet.
Nicholas knows that Grace wants to be an only child. And she'll do
anything to get rid of him. So when their parents leave Nicholas home
alone to baby-sit Grace, Grace does some real bad things. Scary
things. Evil things. Things that COULD make her an only child.
Say Cheese and Die
Greg Banks, and his friends, Doug
(Bird), and Shari, decide to sneak into the old Coffman house, just
for thrills, since they know that it's forbidden. While exploring the
dank, dark house, Greg stumbles onto a hidden cabinet, with a rather
large and odd camera inside, and he decides to take a picture. For
the picture, Bird will stand on the stairs, juggling two balls that
he has found in the house, but when Greg takes the picture, it
doesn't show Bird juggling, rather him falling through the railing of
the stairs! And when the trio is found by the neighborhood eccentric,
nicknamed "Spidey", that's exactly what happens to Bird,
and as Greg soon begins to realize, this camera takes pictures of the
future, makes it bad, and causes the events to happen...
Say
Cheese and Die…Again
Sourball. That's what Greg calls his
English teacher, Mr. Saur. He's a real grouch. And now he just gave
Greg a big fat "F" on his oral report. He didn't believe
Greg's story about the camera Greg found last summer. About the
pictures it took. About the evil things that happened. Poor Greg. He
just wanted to prove old Sourball wrong. But now that he's dug up the
camera, bad things are happening. Really bad things. Just like the
first time.