R.L. Stine's Monster Madness [Revisiting Goosebumps - Part 4]
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It's time to revisit some Goosebumps stories once again! In this episode, we're looking back at The Girl Who Cried Monster and Welcome to Camp Nightmare. How do they stack up now that I'm a highly intelligent adult? And for the first time, did the TV episodes do a better job than the books?? Adult beware, you're in for a scare!
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"Mom? Is dad still cleaning his rifle?"
That line got a legit laugh out of me.
w/o context i thought this could've been an innuendo then i realized this is a Goosebumps video...
"hey mom, is that the claymore Roomba I hear coming down the hall?"
@@TransistorBased Ha Ha!! When I was in high school, I was having a voice chat with a friend on MSN Messenger and we were talking about claymores. My friend's mom came into his room to find out why were talking about explosives!
🔥💯😈🍿🌟
Honestly, both Lucy and Mr Mortmon's actors were as solid as you can get for a Goosebumps series, also Lucy's dad just going "Don't you say hi, anymore?" and Lucy responding with a panicked "Hi dad, I just saw a monster!" got a laugh out of me. I also really liked Camp Nightmare with the performances from Billy and Uncle Al, the twist ending was really well done, too.
The man turns into a monster, and then he... eats flies. Oh noes, how terrible. Can he come eat the flies in my house? What's his rate?
As long as he leaves my pet reptiles alone, I'll gladly put him up for a while.
It's really a win-win. You get rid of your flies and the man gets paid to eat.
What a stupid comment
As a librarian, card catalogues have phased out but omfg I would NOT leave those unorganized on the floor. 10/10 realistic monster
Real quick!! I DO thank you for your playlists, though, John. It helps with organization and finding specific videos I wanna watch. Both here and on your Twolfe channel.
I love the playlist option and really appreciate creators who have organized playlists they keep updated! ❤
100%!
This! I also use them when i go back to rewatch things to fall asleep to
Me too!! It makes me so happy he is so organized and makes the extra effort so we can easily find what we want and see it in order!
Yes! I’ve been using the playlist HEAVY to catch up on BG3 on Twolfe
I love how snakes in TV are always just cold ball pythons who want to go home, but they're supposed to be super scary.
Kind of like how tarantulas are always rose hairs or curly hairs. I'm like: I had a curly hair and I watched him trip over his own feet once because he got startled by his own food, you can't fool me.
scorpions are always emperor scorpions, they are big and have shiny black bodies, but they have no venom and don't even hurt as much as bee sting
On the movie, The Uncanny. All the cats are supposed to be evil, but they are the happiest cats in the world.
31:07 I can confirm this is a common bus driver fantasy, because when my mom used to be a school bus driver, she would've gladly stopped the bus and kicked off all the little shits if she could have.
I can confirm. In elementary school, for a field trip, we had a bus driver named Duffy. Every time we got noisy, she'd yell and freak out for us to stop. I don't remember where we were going, but I remember the bus ride.
I'd 100% be down with John doing movie reviews. I hadn't even considered that a possibility. I'd love to see him review 80's and 90's horror.
I have never felt more validated in my life than when John admitted to having been traumatized by something from the 'Wee Sing' collection when he was a kid. My younger self was so afraid of the singing vegetables in 'The Wee Sing Train' that I couldn't even be in the room when they were on-screen.
my wife and I occasionally will sing the vegetable song in the kitchen. I’m always Red Beet
Breaking the cycle of trauma by ensuring that CK has a positive association with the songs, due to you and Kimmy singing them, in case she ever winds up watching something from the 'Wee Sing' collection in the future. Excellent.
Very occasionally I'll loudly belt out "My dust bin's fullllll"!, (the ending lyric from the One Bottle o' Pop song), like an opera singer. After the first couple of times startling my wife like this I was forced to show her the Wee Sing in Sillyville film the song is from. Not sure if she's ever forgiven me for making her experience it too.
The extremely rare eighth category of abuse.
Sadly, CK's grandmother has already made sure she watched the first two Wee Sing episodes, with more to come in the future. So far she actually really likes them 😆
With his compulsion to gather up the cards, RL Stine might have taken inspiration from vampires having a compulsion to count spilled items
I get the sesame Street reference but I never got that as a kid COUNT Dracula meaning he actually got favor from the king to keep the peace, dispense justice, and raise armies, he had jurisdiction over Transylvania citizens so did he use his vampire persuasion on the king or was he just a really successful accountant reminds me of Colin Robinson
Oh now the Sesame Street vampire makes a lot more sense
@@Jason0binladenIt's not a sesame street reference lol, it's part of vampiric lore that if you spill rice in front of a vampire, they will be compelled to stop and count all the grains. That probably inspired the character of the Count in sesame street
Also his insistence on getting permission to come inside their home. And that he can't be photographed. The bug eating could be a reference to the vampiric thralls in Dracula, also.
In South Louisiana, parents in olden days sometimes suspected their children of eavesdropping on their conversations, when they ought to be in bed asleep.
Mom & Dad would discuss the spooky tale of the Loup Garou (a Cajun werewolf). These child-devouring creatures would sneak into the homes and steal away bad boys & girls. The only trick that could effectively defeat the Loup Garou's hunt was to leave a collander or flour sifter outside one's front door. Monsters are notorious for their compulsion to count things.
A Loup Garou would be stuck tallying the number of holes in the kitchen appliance. Once the sun started rising, the monster had to run back to its lair.
Any parents who discovered a collander or flour sifter outside the front door would know that their kids were sneaking out of bed at night.
Honestly I thought a one-person frisbee was just a boomerang.
Same it makes sense when you think about it
thats exactly what i was thinking
One-person frisbee,what was he playing Sailor Moon?
saaaaaaaaaaaaaaame :D
I think that's the T'ird
I think the concept of the first one being an allegory for real child predators gives the ending a whole new meaning. She's being preyed upon by this external "monster" and eventually comes to realize that her parents were those kind of "monsters" too her whole life, and she just couldn't recognize it because it was also the only home she knew. Then we hear the parents say that she and her brother will be "monsters" too when they come of age shows that this kind of trauma can be passed down even through generations that do recognize it for what it is. I don't really think Stine did that intentionally, but it's interesting
I always thought of it like, if the librarian *was* meant to be a child predator allegory, then her parents were meant to be some kind of vigilante justice, getting rid of the "monsters" society otherwise ignores or don't know about...
I like that! Definitely more hopeful and positive than mine 😅
@@SirenAngelique I honestly think it does fit well; the parents seemed to be ignoring the child but it was only because they didn't want to scare her. Instead, they were quietly preparing to tackle this head-on. They're those rare parents who did listen to their kid instead of brushing off the child's concerns.
@SympleSymon The only reason I don't think that works is because the parents don't want him there because he's like them and if there are too many of them the town will revolt.
naaaah, they all are predators, so that doesnt fit. Unless its justyfing parents being like pedos? Ugh, just nope
Another perspective: Lucy and her brother are still young and defenseless and they KNOW monsters exist. They have every reason to be truly afraid of monsters.
I realised halfway through your view of Camp Nightmare that I read it was a child - all I really remembered was the twist ending about the camp not being on Earth, it blew my mind at the time
These days it's not really a good twist as an adult we've seen it before in movies, games, etc. but for kids back then who hadn't seen the Twilight Zone or read EC Horror comics I think it's an interesting one most wouldn't be expecting.
The twist for me occurred at the end of this video. I watched Welcome to Camp Nightmare when it first aired, but I never read the book. A friend told me that Camp Nightmare was on Mars. I learned to day that the book doesn't reveal what planet they are on, but Mars makes sense because of how the Earth appeared in the sky.
Excuse me all of us Librarians turn into worm eating monsters once all the libraries close.
Is it weird that I really want you to dissect one of the old choose your own adventure novels? Something about it feels right
I forget which one it is, but I would LOVE for him to run across the one where you randomly die because "you forgot you're allergic to strawberries" with no prior character knowledge of it.
It would be cool if he did the Goosebumps choose your own adventure books. Not sure how many there are. But I had one when I was a kid called "Zombie School" or something.
@@danieldietrich9969 I remember one called Journey to the Year 3000 that was fun when I was a kid. Still have that one. It's old and yellowed, and the cover is falling off, but I still love it. One of my favorites.
I had “please don’t feed the vampire” I loved. My daughter now has it. It’s also aged, yellowed and well loved lol
@@Rae.Harper Those are the best kind of books.
the librarian stopping to pick up the cards kind of reminds me of a bit in the X-files. theres an episode with vampires and they posit that vampires are inherently extremely OCD or something. in the episode Mulder is drugged and trying to escape a vampire so he throws a bag of sunflower seeds on the ground making the vampire stop his pursuit to pick them all up.
Yes! I love that scene in X Files. Omg I need John to review X Files now.
its also a fun bit of vampire lore in certain parts of europe! mustard seeds are the common thing to throw at them
I replied to another comment here about the Loup Garou of Louisiana folklore (a werewolf). It also has a thing for counting.
I guess I'll pause my other John Wolfe video in order to watch this one 🤠
Saaame! 😁
Ikr!
Right? I was literally rewatching Night of the Consumers in another tab, lol.
I’m currently watching this before I watch his forgotten city playthrough which I have open in another tab
Thank you so much for doing this series. It's a seriously welcome nostalgia trip. Goosebumps was one of the main drivers of my reading fixation as a young kid, and there was a period of time when I was picking up a stack of 8-10 at a time from the library and reading them all in a week. I know it's a heavy lift, but I seriously hope you continue and do the whole series.
Me too, I would read them at school inside my text book and my teacher couldn't get too mad because I was reading. Lol
Same! I can't get enough of this epic nostalgia trip.
John Wolfe going to bat for The Village makes me happy because I was profoundly impacted by it and have always been frustrated with how many people seem to disregard it (and Shyamalan in general, who I still feel overall has more hits than misses)
Super agree! I have to admit The Village has always been one of my favourite go-to movies. Something about it left a big impact on me when I was a kid.
I was disappointed in it for one reason, and it had nothing to do with the plot. It was that I was still in my slasher flick phase, and while the trailers all made it out to be the next huge thriller, it turned out to be real life horror, a lot of which I was struggling with at the time. If I could erase it and see it for the first time now, even though I haven't escaped most of it, I'm sure I'd be a lot more favourable towards the film. Ditto for if they'd made it out to be more psychological or mysterious than terrifying.
It sounds fascinating. I should really see it.
@@GilraenTook Yeah, bad marketing is dreadful. It can spoil an entire plot, or make you think it did so you end up missing a real banger. Sounds like The Village got the Jennifer's Body treatment.
Larry being an asshole at the counselor table and Uncle Al saying 'We have no campers by those names!' at a psuedo-dutch angle are two childhood memories that I had completely forgotten. I swear they must have been part of a commercial or something, because none of the details of the other episodes stand out (except for Haunted Mask, since it was the debut).
As a librarian, I totally understand his urgency to fix the card catalogue
I'm totally here for a deep dive on The Village! I haven't watched the movie since I was in middle school. So I've never seen it from an adult lense.
I always quite enjoyed it for what it was,signs also.
Oh yeah, The Village was good. Haven't watched any other of the director's movies, aside from Signs.
(The Last Air Bender doesn't count.)
Wouldn’t mind John doing a deep dive on any and all horror movies. This format he’s approached Goosebumps with would translate very well to both great and terrible horror films.
@@johntumino1066 True! I agree.
I think Mr. Stine pulled the Monster Reveal too soon in the first book, as you can see with him doing it again several times later.
I think a psychological approach would've been cooler, like Lucy only suspecting Mr. Morkman of being a monster while repeatedly spying on him doing weirder and more unsavory things until the shoe finally drops and the real danger kicks in.
Also I think the twist would've been so much better if Lucy and her brother didnt know their parents where monsters, like I imagine Mr. Morkman menacing the kids, threatening to eat them right before he's eaten in one bite by a giant monster that then goes "Don't worry, honey, it's me mom" and then the dad (still a human) comes in all nonchalant going "Sorry kids, your mom got hungry" or some other corny sitcom line like this.
I kind of like it as a concept since I think it's a neater idea to look at on a repeat read. It recontextualizes all of the events in the story when you realise that Lucy is really plotting to murder Mortman. I also don't think it would've worked for them to not know their parents are monsters.
Granted I do think the ending is really abrupt and could've been done better, and I would've preferred if Lucy tried and failed to get proof throughout the story.
@@lich109 I like that idea in theory but I don't know that it works in practice cause we follow Lucy so we can't really reinterpret her actions as we know what she's thinking, this book would have benefited from either a 3rd person narrator or having the kids not know (maybe the parents were gonna wait till they were older to tell them idk)
@@Aurelius-bf3yx We don't really know what she's thinking though, because we're often not told her thoughts or given any context behind them a lot of the time. This means she's an unreliable narrator.
I do agree a 3rd person perspective would've helped.
Dude! I never thought I’d see that episode of Wee Sings referenced anywhere!
That shit was like a bad acid trip. Especially when Punchinello gets up and starts dancing.
Wee Sing is a treasure trove of that kind of thing for sure. Humpty Dumpty from King Cole’s Party is another one…
@@JohnWolfe I know you got this Goosebumps thing going on, but *that* would be a cool deep dive some day.
Literally at the ad-break when you said “Dinnertime my timid friends” my airpods freaked put and started to distort the audio and I thought it was a really great spooky effect until it continued even after the adbreak
Playlists are demigods here on YT. They make browsing so much easier a lot of times.
Also please overanalyze, never stop doing so. I love the interpretations you made here, especially for the stranger danger.
They're also great for sleeping to sometimes lol.
Homestly even if you don’t really do much gameplay videos anymore your personality is what brings me back every time. Keep up the great videos!
He has tons of gameplay on his second channel, John Twolfe 😊
This kinda comment is why he had to make like 38373 videos explaining that his OTHER channel would be where his gameplay would be in the future💀
I’m 30 now. All of our game play tubers we watched growing up I stopped a lot of em! Happy John is pivoting. I don’t watch game plays anymore 💯
He quite literally uploads to his second channel almost daily. And streams on Twitch 🤨
@@LprogressivesANDliberalsI really feel this comment. Never thought about it myself but yeah I’m coming up on 34 next month & stopped all my Pewdiepie’s etc
I always interpreted Camp Nightmare as a story that implied that humans were aliens. And the "dangerous aliens" were things like wild animals.
TBH I feel like M Night Shyamalan got a reputation as "the twist guy" and folks started interpreting regular story beats as "twists." The Village is pretty up front about the elders being up to something in their isolated old-timey commune. Like you said, the monsters aren't fake at all. I remember it being pretty good, except for how one specific character was used to drive the plot. I'd love to hear more of your thoughts about The Village!
Except they are fake... they're people in costumes that patrol the borders of the village so kids learn not to ever go too far into the modern world.
.... my bad, I must have missed the Village part the first time I watched this (I had to answer the door and the video kept running), but going back I see when you and John both meant now, and I agree, the actual "monsters" were very much real in the psychological sense. Again, I apologise
I'm a movie critic and your commentary on Camp Nightmare and how it relates to The Village is gold. We are supposed to read into things, because even though the author might have not intended certain subtext, we're all creatures being influenced by the culture around us and our creative choices can reflect certain aspects of said culture that we may not even be aware of at the time. D.H. Lawrence used to say "trust the tale, not the teller", so keep up the good work!
I think your suggestion of having the librarian turn out to be a nice monster would've been a far better twist. Like, he IS a supernatural creature, but as it turns out, he's the monster equivalent of a vegetarian and doesn't want to eat or hurt people, so he eats bugs and other stuff instead would've been more interesting. Or heck, even doing the cliché thing of having the whole thing turn out to be a misunderstanding, but then at the last second something hints at the librarian actually being a monster would've been better than what Stine came up with. :/
Can't wait for you to cover the Ghost Next Door and the Haunted Mask----those two are easily the darkest and best ones in the series!
The haunted mask!! That shit scared me when I was younger, actually was one of the FIRST goosebumps episodes I ever watched.
WOOHOO!!! FINALLY!!
Just so good and hits my childhood.....i feel old as hell
I'm so excited to hear John review The Girl who cried Monster! That was one of my favourite R.L. Stine books as a kid. The vivid image of the librarian crunching down on turtles still haunts me.
Though the ending was so bad even to a child, I was always disappointed when I reached it.
The dog with glowing eyes in the intros! I'd always cover my eyes as a kid at that part. Also, the face-shifting billboard.
I need to know what you think about the UK Goosebump covers! These gave me so much tactile satisfaction as a kid, they had literal 'bumps' on them and I just loved the feel of them growing up. Import just one to run a finger over it, I'd love to know your thoughts on the design choice. The images were different as well - maybe a US/UK front cover comparison and ranking at the end of the series as a bonus vid? I'm loving this series, thanks so much for all the great content x
I deeply loathe the UK covers I’ve seen to be honest lol. Instead of a monster they usually have a smug kid face stuck in the middle of a bunch of goop? I don’t really get it. But it’s worth noting that the US covers also have the tactile bumps on the cover, and I also liked running my finger over them!
Gotta love how the "scary" snake is just a ball python curled up protecting itself lol not in a defensive striking position at all.
I honestly thought you were only gonna cover the first couple books, but now I need that deep dive on Chicken Chicken you teased in the first vid
Camp Nightmare is the Goosebumps episode that stuck most vividly with me from back in the day. The whole psychological horror angle and the kids seemingly being killed off one by one really messed wit my head.
Oh my God! The girl who hated Black beauty? The creepy bug-eating librarian? Girl who cried monster was my all-time favorite as a kid. God this series is too fun!
"I tried to scream but no sound came out" is just another "I let go of the breath i didnt know i was holding"
Even if John decided to roast and tear apart my favorite childhood media I'd be on board. The fact that he takes a nuanced approach and offers a fair assessment is icing on the cake.
I'm SO glad to see praise for the Village after all these years because I always thought the twist was good in a non-traditional horror way! I'd love to see a full video on that movie too like you suggested 😅 mostly so I can send it to my "the village" hating friends 🔥
I agree wholeheartedly about every piece of subtext you mentioned! The danger of a trusted adult taking advantage of a child, the horror of systemic toxic masculinity / misogyny. And that’s exactly what I took from these stories as a kid, even if not entirely consciously.
Also, I LOVE the Village and always have. The twist was a formative moment for me as a child. Seriously one of my absolute favorites and, I’m sure, plays some part in why I try and think as critically about things as I do now. Thanks for an awesome video!
I laughed way too damn hard at the transition between books. I really hope you do a video for all the books, this has been some of my favorite stuff to watch.
Spilled intricate things is an old motif with vampires and sometimes fae creatures. They have to stop to pick up and/or count them.
I always took that catalog thing to be a nod to that.
Mr. Lipinski gave an amazing performance in this episode. I remember the first time I watched it, I was so conflicted because he was so kind and soft spoken and then he'd flip and become so discomforting
Would absolutely love to hear you talk more about The Village!
I hope John likes "The Ghost Next Door" when he covers it. That episode has stuck with me all these years.
honestly these videos bring me back to watching these absolutely beautiful pieces of entertainment on netflix, scared to death at 10 years old almost in tears over a plant monster 😂 thank you for these videos man there brilliant.
I really hope you make a review for every single book, this is my favorite series right now (on every platform, including Netflix and all those paid services)
Honestly, I kinda love when the Goosebump twist endings are just utterly bizarre. They're the most fun.
i am sooo invested in this series john, please keep doing these goosebumps reviews!!! i’m obsessed!!!❤❤
Your Goosebumps series always delivers, but I have to say that it made me ECSTATIC to hear you talk about The Village the way you did. I always loved the movie, and I thought the story was really solid, chilling, and profound in its own way. I feel so validated hearing someone else feel the same way, especially when that someone is you! Thanks, John. Always great to hear your thoughts on various media.
My brothers were HEAVY into the Goosebumps books, and I always loved the book covers. The Girl Who Cried Monster is the only one I ever read, so I appreciate the coverage. :D
Man I love the goosebump books. They're what started my love for reading, and eventually writing and narrating horror stories. I've always thought about narrating goosebump stories.
This series of videos you’re doing is definitely tapping into a LOT of childhood nostalgia for me. I collected ALL of the original series run Goosebumps books and had seen just about every episode of the TV show when I was a kid. Though seen as extremely tame by today’s standards, I continue to believe that Goosebumps is good entry level horror with just the right balance of eeriness and humor for younger audiences to digest. I do hope you continue this video series, as the books truly got more and more bizarre and inventive as the series went on and the TV show did an admirable job at adapting them. ☺️
That tangent about “The Village” really solidifies why I never read reviews for anything. I didn’t have any of those feelings towards it because when I saw it I had no preconceived notions. I just thought it was generally underrated until I heard this.
cant wait for Haunted Mask! my favorite episode as a kid for sure
Every time I watch these, I regret that I no longer have my Goosebumps collection. I wonder if R.L. Stine was hit with a baseball, and that's why it happens in the books. I know writers take inspiration from their own lives. I enjoy these revisits, and I always appreciate it when people create Playlists. Thanks!
Can't wait to see John do "One Day at Horrorland" if he decides to get that far.
That one was always my favorite book in the Goosebumps series.
FINALLY!
I’ve been sitting here waiting for this for weeks.
these two were my favourites both show-wise and book-wise, I'm so excited to see you take a look at them!
Please keep doing these, John! They're my favorite main channel vids by you, we need you to make it to the end of all 50 books so you can do a Tier Ranking wrap up video. Though pro-tip if you want to be part of Booktube you have to insert some vlogs of you walking around using your phone as a camera while you're drinking tea or coffee. From what I recall you're right, Haunted Mask and Ghost Next Door are pretty good ones. There's still hits up through about 40 but the last stretch of books I recall being pretty bad.
It feels like early on RL Stine was going for a tone closer to Series of Unfortunate Events, and how sometimes people would refer to completely nonsensical animals or hobbies or movies or the like to add a sort of more whimsical and light tone. Stuff like a one person frisbee and prairie cat just kinda feeling like that same sort of absurdity
I need you to understand, that for me, your videos on Goosebumps brings back that /feeling/ of going to blockbuster on a Friday evening and finding the nook of Goosebumps on the shelf to bring home and watch with deliciously unhealthy food.
I'm sitting here SO excited with my mcnuggets, thrilled to "watch" Goosebumps but with a literary/media analysis aspect.
3 months later, and I'm rewatching it just for the "turtles" bit, my favorite
This whole series has been fantastic! I am unreasonably excited for the next episode of this LOL
The Haunted Mask is my favorite goosebumps story; I had a VHS tape of it that I'd rewatch over and over again, as a kid. The visuals and storytelling always stuck with me, as someone who struggled (and still struggles) with a major anxiety disorder. I remember feeling such relief and validation for Carly Beth at the end of the story, as a child-
So excited to see where this series goes!!
Looking at the graph there is somuch to look forward to! As someone from the 80s, please don't stop making these!
Also very excited to see the Grisly Graph completed!
I hope you eventually make it to Werewolf of Fever Swamp. I had that on VHS as a kid and I must have watched it a million times. It also was genuinely creepy with some of the effects. I think the book was even creepier. Good video John!
I absolutely love it when you do these goosebumps videos, as well as your gaming and debunking videos. I used to enjoy your childhood cringe videos as well. You're commentary and personality make you very enjoyable to watch. Subscribed to both this and your John Twofle channel.
I love these videos, it was enjoyable as always! I only vaguely remember some things from my childhood (plus, as a german, I read the german translations which probably changed things too and I'm not entirely sure if we ever got the TV show), so revisiting the stories is a treat.
I like how you say "dinner time my timid friends" 😆your character voices are fun 😆
Brings me a lot of joy seeing a new episode of the goosebumps series. These have become a favorite of mine from you, John! So fun!
John roasting the camp counselor was the best! Really enjoying this series.
Loving these videos. So well edited too. Never really thought about a psychological aspect to these stories. Looking forward for the next one!
My sister and I died laughing at Randy's scream in that episode! We went back and replayed it many times
I used to collect and read these books over and over. Same with the Fear Street books. I tried to revisit them at the beginning of the year and I couldn’t get through the first book. The cliffhangers on the end of the episodes, etc. just didn’t hit the same. Makes me want to see if other books are great but definitely time and place specific.
I hope you continue this series! It’s fantastic! 📚
17:00 I think the librarian compelled to pick up the cards may be a reference to the lore of vampires compulsively needing to count every grain of rice spilled in front of them?!
Had a breakup today after half a month of basically knowing it was coming. Finally I can relax, and it’s one of my faves back again in the knick of time: The Wolfster
Oh please do a video analysis of The Village, you made great points about that movies message. And it happens to be a favorite!
I dropped everything to click this video. I am so excited for another one of these! I got a little worried there wouldnt be another one 😅
Edit: On Camp Nightmare, as a kid, all those references they made that hinted they weren't on earth went right over my head. It's interesting looking back with more knowledge and realizing how obvious it was the whole time. Honestly, pretty clever for a kids book.
I would love to see a The Village video! The twist was probably the first of its kind I’d ever seen as a kid, so it’s always stuck out to me lol.
I LOVED the village in such an all encompassing way that only a kid can love something. I was like wow this was such an incredible twist with so many different layers and such a great nuanced main character, I was so impressed that ostensibly she was bought in and obedient, there was no like sassy girl who hates her entire way of life and knows it's bogus from the jump. I went in completely blind and was blown away and then the next movie he made was the happening, so.
I do find it endearing and kind of sweet that R.L Stine is introducing younger readers into other types of horror like Psychological Horror in less extreme ways, it does show how much passion I think he had for his work and reaching out to younger kids.
I get so excited every time you drop a new one in this series! Can’t wait for the review of werewolf of fever swamp! The tv episode of it gave me nightmares 😂
That little tongue wiggle while he goes "haheheheheh!" With those buggy eyes is *_Golden!_*
That's one of the greatest scenes I've ever seen in my life! Those 10 seconds will play over and over in my head for weeks!!
The editing is getting better and better each vid of this John. Love the improvement!
It was kinda cool hearing you say my name for half the video 😅 But I really hope you enjoy making this videos as much as I enjoy watching them! Everything that you bring is greatly appreciated
The girl who cried monster was the first goosebumps book I ever read. I remember being confused by the ending, and kept rereading it
Yess ! Been eagerly awaiting the next Goosebumps vid. Also, yes please do a video on The Village ! It’s such an underrated film and it makes me so happy to know that you also came to like it !
Don’t forget to leave a like guys! I want to see more and he definitely deserves it for all the work he puts in these videos, by far my favorite series of yours so far 😊 already looking forward to the next episode
I was slightly too old for Goosebumps when they started coming out (read a few fear streets though) but somehow this is still bringing back memories of just seeing those covers at the time
Wee Sing Grandpa's Magical Toys was one of my favorite VHS tapes as a child. When you showed the Beaver I had a huge rush of nostalgia, I loved the costumes and especially the carousel animals. There is one of the Wee Sings that did scare me: The Marvelous Musical Mansion. Lots of unintentionally creepy things in that one.
I remember Eugene Lipinski as visser 3 from animorphs. Excellent villain.
Double commenting yet again:
Thank you for defending the Village. So much unwarranted hate. Actually a great film. Based, liked, subscribed, followed
I for one do really appreciate the playlists, I love watching a series while working on a sewing or drawing project.
Thanks for all the work you and Max do to make these gems~
i like the interpretation of both The Village and how it in comparison relates to Welcome to Camp Nightmare in the end.
Loved GB growing up, and loving this series so far. Here's hoping you do all the early books!
Bro, I literally binged all 4 of these Goosebumps: As An Adult videos while gaming. Please keep them going, and you'll have me as a subscriber forever!