Chris and Goosebumps

[HerebeDragons]

Someone needs to photoshop Goosebumps titles to Chris-related things. Like, 14 Branchland Court to "WELCOME TO DEAD HOUSE" and Chris eating a pizza to "THE BLOB THAT ATE EVERYTHING."

Ask and ye shall receive. Pretty low res since it was the best copy of that cover I could find that didn't look like crap. Plus it's the first time I've used Photoshop in like two years.

http://i.imgur.com/7Xv71XV.jpg

You, my friend, are a true artist.

 

[bradsternum]

Can't... tell... difference.

 

[NIA-DOA 2.0]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

 

[Hexbox]

I'll make some more tomorrow. I have work tomorrow and must

 

[Overcast]

I remember the books being all the rage back in elementary school.

I've never really read the books except for those choose your adventure books. And thy weren't scary at all. And I was probably 10 when I read them.

I do remember some episodes of the TV series being kinda creepy. Particularly the one about the Tower. Then there was one about an evil sponge or something from under a sink. Which I found pretty stupid.

I've recently watched some Goosebumps on Netflix with my roommate after seeing JonTron's Halloween episode about it. The endings to these stories are a hell of a lot more morbid and macabre than I remember as a kid.

Spoiler

In one of them where this kid gets a time-controlling TV remote he ends up getting trapped in a purgatory-esque void presumably for all eternity.

The kids' dad in Stay Out of the Basement ends up "dead" at the end, turned into a plant, while a body snatchers version of their father flawlessly mingles among the other humans.

After the family escapes from Horrorland, their car gets hijacked by the remote control device placed on it and their station wagon is driven off a fucking cliff.

Spoiler

Oh right. I forgot about Stay Out of the Basement. That episode was creepy.

Also yeah, that bit at the end of Horrerland was pretty morbid.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

Personally I'm just happy that Chrissy can read at all. Anything is better then nothing IMHO

 

[RagtimeRoastBeefy]

Too many potential photo shops....

Calling all creeps
The girl who cried monster(Megan)
My best friend is invisible ( SONICHU)
Chicken chicken
deep trouble ( Snyder)
I live in your basement
The haunted school.
Night of the living dummies(sex dolls)

 

[HerebeDragons]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

I'm inclined to agree (loved "AYAotD", pretty nice little horror series for the time and audience), but then, think of the "Saw" movies...

 

[Coldgrip]

I'm sure he read shit in high school. Of Mice and Men and Grapes of Wrath are both required reading in this State for graduation, but I don't know or care enough to look up Virginia's reading requirements.

From what evidence we have, Chris was in more than a few special ed classes. They might of not required him to read those in order to pass. That and more than a few teachers gave him a free pass to sleep in class, so I can't imagine that the standards he was being held to were very high (like say, the standards that everybody else had to reach).

 

[Overcast]

Thinking about it now, I didn't really read Goosebumps, but I do remember looking at the art on the cover of the books. Some of them I found to be pretty creepy.

Spoiler

And then there are these kinds of covers...

Spoiler

Yeah...

 

[The Fair Lady]

^Definitely. It's a shame the books themselves weren't nearly as disturbing.

Of course, some of them do have nightmare fuel qualities. I remember the episode of The Werewolf of Fever Swamp scaring the hell out of me when I was little, so I decided to rewatch it a few years ago. While I realized that the acting was awful, some parts were still pretty creepy.

Spoiler

The scene where they find the shoe in the swamp always had me convinced that a kid had drowned in it. And then at the end, the werewolf boy ends up dying this way.

 

[Phil Ken Sebben]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

I remember a great commercial for it. It was creepy as hell and I wish I could find it on Youtube but sadly I can't.

It was in black and white and had this rather... Hitchcockian feeling about it. It showed a little girl in a creepy house, stormy night and all that, things moving all about her and there's a knock on the door or a creak coming from outside. She cries out "who's there?!" but there's no answer. She goes to the door and throws it open only to see her dog sitting on the other side. She sighs, smiles and relaxes then the dog asks her, "are you afraid of the dark?" Little girl screams and shuts the door.

Thinking about it still gives me the shivers.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

I get it. It was horror for the suburban, grade school crowd. I dug them as a kid too. They're awful in retrospect but shit was crazy hot back when I was a kid. He still lists it on his OkCupid profile because he's an idjit.

His taste in horror hasn't changed much since. He finds the most mainstream and slightly outdated franchise (see Saw) and latches onto it. Shame because of all the things trolling I think showing him crazy horror movies was missed out on. The French New Extremity (I believe that's what its referred to as) movement of the late 2000's would be fascinating filtered through his autistic noggin.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I wonder if he liked "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"

Doubt it. "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" was pretty intense for a kid show and would probably give our adult, autistic child prickly-wicklies and .

I'm inclined to agree (loved "AYAotD", pretty nice little horror series for the time and audience), but then, think of the "Saw" movies...

AYAotD made me afraid of chameleons for some time. "Bite you once, bite you twice. Little bit of water, pay the price." lol Tales from the Cryptkeeper was also awesome.

 

[The Fair Lady]

^The only AYAOD episode that still freaks me out to this day is The Tale of the Dead Man's Float. Same formula with Goosebumps I did in my last post. Kids really shouldn't be exposed to that kind of shit.

 

[JarlaxleBaenre]

AYAOD had the magician as a recurring character? I loved that show when I was a kid, you weenies.

Have you ever noticed any patterns between the stuff of Stine's series and Chris's comics?

 

[JeffGoldblumIRL]

AYAOD had the magician as a recurring character? I loved that show when I was a kid, you weenies.

Have you ever noticed any patterns between the stuff of Stine's series and Chris's comics?

Ambiguous endings, four dozen words per page, terrifying artwork, and readable in 20 minutes?

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Have you ever noticed any patterns between the stuff of Stine's series and Chris's comics?

Yes, they suck.

 

[DrChristianTroy]

Have you ever noticed any patterns between the stuff of Stine's series and Chris's comics?

Yes, they suck.

Chris' comics never had awesome covers. Goosebumps may be bad but those covered ruled.

 

[LordCustos3]

When has Lord of the Rings been easy to get into? Yeah I know, the movies, but the books are full of archaic language and such a branching amount of lore (To this day I'm still confused at what exactly all the elves were up to) that it's hard to just pick up and get into.

Could've been worse.
You think Lord of the Rings was a slog? Try reading The Silmarillion.