Laura Vandervoort, who played Nadine in this episode, went on to play Sheena in next season's episode, "Deep Trouble". Years later, she played Kara-El (Supergirl) on the TV series Smallville.
Laura Vanderoort? That Anna from Jigsaw..... Spoilers in the bottom That character deserves to die because she killed her baby and framed her husband but got what she deserved when the gun shot backwards
This honestly was one of the scariest episodes to me. I couldn't imagine being a kid and checking out an abanded house and potentially being stuck in their for eternity.
Jonathan, Annie, Noah and Nadine play the board game during a thunderstorm in the story while in the episode, they are lured into an old house under the ruse to help find a little girl's lost cat.
In 1996, Fox Kids Magazine held a contest for kids to submit their own ending to this story. The winner was Corinna Ortiz. Their ending has the twins being sucked into the board game, and evil versions of them being unleashed. This is similar to the setup of the TV episode
I love the part where the fisherman throws a net and catches Jonathan and reels him in it's so creative and scary and genius. I would love to know how it was all made like storyboared and all I had nightmares that the fisherman threw a net and caught me in the net and reeled me in. I wonder what would've happened to Jonathan if the fisherman got him on the boat.
Great video Cat! Since I made a blog about this episode awhile ago, I’ll post my thoughts here. Retrospective : Looking back on memories of this episode growing up, I maybe saw this one or two times before the show arrived on Netflix. When I got reacquainted with it, it became one of my favorites almost immediately. It feels like a mixture of the silliness goosebumps is known for and the outright terror goosebumps can also be known for. There is an underlying theme presented in the story via the games instructions I found fun to dissect. “Roll a seven and go to Heaven”. As I know think about that moniker, I can’t help but think that this board game is some variation of hell created to torment the ones who dare play into it. And only the lucky will be able to escape with their souls intact. It is quite dark when you think about it. The point of the house is to kill kids who dare try and play the game associated with it, and these demented dirty men who presumably created the game will possess your soul in the form of a game piece that is added into their collection of sorts. With that conclusion being there, it makes the story feel more high stakes than usual Goosebumps episodes. Like I said, what happened to Nadine and Johnathan could’ve happened to any kid walking by. Anyone could’ve been suckered by a helpless little girl. It shows the relatability to their characters because the question to help someone in need. I mean, Johnathan is more out of whack with that thought but at least he is willing to help Nadine help the little girl, at first. Albeit reluctantly. I enjoy how the episode cuts out traditionally exposition and replaces it with a high stakes moment. The kids were helpless in this old house, they didn’t know the instructions that came in the board game. They were tricked to entering in the first place. And being a kid and thrusted into a sudden and scary circumstance can feel even more terrifying because of a lot of things. A lack of life experience, lack of emotional growth and development, and lack of cognition to the grim existence of certain things. If the kids were adults, they would assume someone created the game to explore the house and assumed that someone was behind its design all along. Johnathan and Nadine only know that the house brought them to this game which is playing with their lives. Which is a cool take on playing games in general, because often we as humans are the movers of the pieces. When we become the pieces ourselves, that’s when we have to think about things. It’s one thing to pretend a plastic figurine gets wrapped up in a net and taken by a ghostly ship captain. It’s another to be a person wrapped up in a net and taken by a ghostly ship captain. The regard of Nadine and Johnathan’s life came at the risk of playing a board game to try and survive what it could throw at them. And what the game threw at them molded their characters beyond the cardboard stocks we were given earlier. I’m sure people who dislike this episode will say “nothing Nadine and Johnathan did was that remarkable to their characters”. And that may be true to an extent, but I feel I saw Johnathan’s walking meme status shrink to a form of respect to his intelligence we didn’t see come out of him until the situations started adding up. And I noticed the humility of Nadine’s character making her more of a realer person that understand’s the boundary of bravery and insanity given the events that transpired. There are gaps in the story as in why these old men created a board game inside of a house to collect the souls of the kids who play it. But I say the details to that doesn’t really matter. As the story does a good job showing what the consequences were, what the point of the house was, and how this operation continues via the ending. I’d dare say this is my favorite single length episode from the show, only because of how memorable the plot is. It’s a fun, imaginative romp with ingenuity and sparkle to dazzle you. It is very well paced, has great music, atmosphere, is comedic and scary at the same time and delivers such a powerful darkness punch that I can only rave about it. Conclusion: All in all, I think this is a great episode. It might not be great for everyone but it is great for me. The positives were great in this, with some passable elements such as certain performances and effects chosen. But nothing too dire to deduct anything on. The only negative I had was Benjamin Plenner as an actor really. It could’ve been an A+ episode if we had someone in the caliber if Chuck Greene’s actor from the Haunted Mask episodes. But I digress. I give this episode a(n): A
I have to say that I actually liked both the book and episode equally besides the acting from Nadine and Jonathan in this episode. The actress who plays Nadine is also from the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode The Tale of the Lazer Maze episode.
@@WolfEntertainment nets like that aren't designed and meant to catch hold a person only fish and other aquatic animals. The actor playing the fisherman would have to be very, very, very, very, very strong to reel him. I really wonder and would love to know how they did it
@@jamesm6862 Most likely they used alternate shots. They show the fisherman shooting & dragging his net in some shots, while every time we see Jonathan getting dragged it's the stage crew of like 6 people out of frame sliding him towards the fisherman's direction.
@@WolfEntertainment that might be true. But if the actor playing the fisherman really did reel him he would have to be very, very, very, very, very strong like the strongest person in the world. The fisherman and actor playing him looks very, very skinny and Jonathan is a good size grown teenager bigger them him. If he really did reel him that would be cool
@@WolfEntertainment I just like to think the actor playing the fisherman really did reel him. Nets like that are not designed and meant to hold support carrying a person only fish and other small aquatic animals the actor playing the fisherman would have to be seriously the strongest person in the world to reel him in Jonathan a good size teenage boy bigger than him.
If there's another review of a Haunted Game-themed episode involving dice, maybe you could use the following for opening & closing music. - Die House, from Cuphead (the videogame) - Roll the Dice, from The Cuphead Show original soundtrack
Awesome video bro! Happy Late Easter. Imagine if there were an episode that's exactly like those horror games like Granny, Scary Hostpital, SCP Containment Breach, Baldi's Basics, Detention, or the Backrooms.
Attack of the Jack-o-lantern Gold skull Click Gold skull Deep trouble Silver Skull Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1,500 subscribers special)Gold Skull Vampire Breath Silver Skull Cry of the Cat (2,100 subscribers)Bronze Skull Welcome to Dead House Gold Skull Night of the living Dummy II Gold Skull The house of no return gold skull An old Story bronze skull Bad hare day Bronze skull Awesome Ants 🐜 Gold skull Ghost 👻 beach 🌊🏝 Decayed skull You can’t scare me Decayed Skull The haunted mask Gold skull It came beneath the sink decayed skull Perfect school🏫 gold skull The scarecrow walk at Midnight Gold skull One day at Horrorland Gold skull 👹 Haunted Mask 2 (The worst but better sequel than Son of The mask) Gold skull The Ghost next door 🚪👻 (So the movie of Goosebumps Hannah was ok)Gold skull Werewolf Skin(Jon Talbain: I'm no monster... but tonight, I'll make an exception.) silver skull (the skull that kill werewolf) The Haunted House Game (The game should be a Scooby doo meet Jumanji movie and the background almost need to be the chess ♟♟♟ board from RWBY season 9 with the song Checkmate and a Mario Party References ) gold Skull
Kinda feels like a 90s version of the 2 escape room movies I mean about as cheesy and as mildly scary as estate of panic on the Syfy channel back in the early 2000s that and a kinda 90s take on grave encounters 1 and 2
There isn't too much to say here. It's a bit out there and basically In Name Only but otherwise it is fun. There's some cool moments and nice set design, and it moves along nicely. It's pretty memorable and fun, but I do like the short story more this time.
When it said roll a Seven go to Heaven. That's just it's way of saying you win and you're free to go. It's lucky number 7 after all. They thought they were going to go to Heaven literally. And they freaked out cause I think they don't feel ready to go there yet. While yes we all do want to go to Heaven. We have to earn that.
Interesting enough how the short story and the episode of The Haunted House game are completely different from each other entirely. I loved the short story with how great and atmospheric it was with the kids playing the game they find in their own with their supernatural stuff and how great the twist was. As for the episode it's just okay. The sets of the Gameworld are the best part of it and they still look great today. However the acting from the main characters and the predictable twists are what ruins it from being one of my favorite episodes. I definitely like the short story better but I will say the episode is one game I wouldn't mind playing every once in awhile.
I never noticed the little girl mini figure before until your review. Yeah I been completely confused of this episode's twist for that long. But yeah the twist villains were never a twist for me as a kid. Since the episode makes it so obvious. Also I never got the implication that the old ladies were former victims until now.
I know Disney+ is making a new Goosebumps Series, but I still think that it's going to be a bad idea. I mean sure, they're taking a different approach similar to what sony did with the Goosebumps movie, but still...With Disney taking the helm of it, it's not going to end well. Disney will, without a doubt, butcher everything we know about the beloved R.L. Stine series. I know that Disney also took on R.L. Stine's Just Beyond, but that series turned out good so I can see why they would put Goosebumps on Disney+, but for something as popular as Goosebumps, You know that's where things might go wrong. Disney likes to turn popular things into MORE Popular things, like what they're doing to their original animated films. I don't think it was a great idea for Sony, or even Scholastic (if they are behind it too) to give Disney the rights to produce the upcoming new series. If Disney was to do a good job at Goosebumps, they should have their episodes faithful to the actual books, and be in a somewhat similar style to the original TV series...but also be it's own thing if it wanted.
I got feeling after all these years on this episode that little girl is probably one of the ghost who trick Jonathan and Nadine into that old house to find the board game so on rule 5 of the board game roll a seven go to Heaven if you like roll a seven on the dice 🎲 you automatically win the game without the objects?
Insert theme song for this episode surviving the game by skillet here... LoL But yeah kinda forgot about this episode again I was still only young when this series was going on like 6 years of my life was committed to the 90s as a whole so yeah... Also have to ask the question with french Canadians and their tropes again if you know their tropes you know what I'm talking about why trapped in a board game and I mean later on down the line odd squad would be using this same premise for a one off episode of their series so yeah...
Let's hurry up and found those dice 🎲🎲 kids Goosebumps reviews will be right back on Wolf Entertainment (Commercial break) We're back with more Goosebumps reviews on Wolf Entertainment okay kids let's hurry up and win this game I really want to get out of this creepy old house 🏠
Laura Vandervoort as Nadine Platt also appeared in a another Goosebumps episode she played Sheena Deep in
Deep Trouble
Laura Vandervoort, who played Nadine in this episode, went on to play Sheena in next season's episode, "Deep Trouble". Years later, she played Kara-El (Supergirl) on the TV series Smallville.
I knew she looked familiar
Laura Vanderoort? That Anna from Jigsaw..... Spoilers in the bottom
That character deserves to die because she killed her baby and framed her husband but got what she deserved when the gun shot backwards
This honestly was one of the scariest episodes to me. I couldn't imagine being a kid and checking out an abanded house and potentially being stuck in their for eternity.
She also made an appearance in Are You Afraid of the Dark? She portrayed Ashley Fox in the episode "The Tale of the Laser Maze".
Jonathan, Annie, Noah and Nadine play the board game during a thunderstorm in the story while in the episode, they are lured into an old house under the ruse to help find a little girl's lost cat.
At least Nadine and Jonathan escape from the old house 🏠 after rolling a 7 with the dice 🎲🎲
@@jeffreywilliams8499 Alongside, Noah and Annie.
@@quinntang5614 no those are the ghosts in disguise
@@jeffreywilliams8499 The real Noah and Annie are still alive.
In the end, it is revealed the ghosts go through an endless loop of playing the game in the house.
Sarah Osman who voiced Annie also did Cheryl from My Daughter's Secret Life
In 1996, Fox Kids Magazine held a contest for kids to submit their own ending to this story. The winner was Corinna Ortiz. Their ending has the twins being sucked into the board game, and evil versions of them being unleashed. This is similar to the setup of the TV episode
This episode freaked me out as a kid
well At least RWBY season 9 did see Weiss, Blake & Yang shrink down into living chess piece by the Red Prince
Oh yes this is also my favorite Goosebumps episode. Thank You
Wolf Entertainment for viewing it
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I love the part where the fisherman throws a net and catches Jonathan and reels him in it's so creative and scary and genius. I would love to know how it was all made like storyboared and all I had nightmares that the fisherman threw a net and caught me in the net and reeled me in. I wonder what would've happened to Jonathan if the fisherman got him on the boat.
I love this episode
14:07 Now I want to rewatch Just Beyond
Kinda feels like they took a page from Jumanji.... I love it!
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Happy Easter, Wolf and co.!
Happy Easter.
Oh, and Happy Easter
Happy Easter.
Great video Cat! Since I made a blog about this episode awhile ago, I’ll post my thoughts here.
Retrospective :
Looking back on memories of this episode growing up, I maybe saw this one or two times before the show arrived on Netflix. When I got reacquainted with it, it became one of my favorites almost immediately. It feels like a mixture of the silliness goosebumps is known for and the outright terror goosebumps can also be known for. There is an underlying theme presented in the story via the games instructions I found fun to dissect. “Roll a seven and go to Heaven”. As I know think about that moniker, I can’t help but think that this board game is some variation of hell created to torment the ones who dare play into it. And only the lucky will be able to escape with their souls intact. It is quite dark when you think about it. The point of the house is to kill kids who dare try and play the game associated with it, and these demented dirty men who presumably created the game will possess your soul in the form of a game piece that is added into their collection of sorts. With that conclusion being there, it makes the story feel more high stakes than usual Goosebumps episodes. Like I said, what happened to Nadine and Johnathan could’ve happened to any kid walking by. Anyone could’ve been suckered by a helpless little girl. It shows the relatability to their characters because the question to help someone in need. I mean, Johnathan is more out of whack with that thought but at least he is willing to help Nadine help the little girl, at first. Albeit reluctantly. I enjoy how the episode cuts out traditionally exposition and replaces it with a high stakes moment. The kids were helpless in this old house, they didn’t know the instructions that came in the board game. They were tricked to entering in the first place. And being a kid and thrusted into a sudden and scary circumstance can feel even more terrifying because of a lot of things. A lack of life experience, lack of emotional growth and development, and lack of cognition to the grim existence of certain things. If the kids were adults, they would assume someone created the game to explore the house and assumed that someone was behind its design all along. Johnathan and Nadine only know that the house brought them to this game which is playing with their lives. Which is a cool take on playing games in general, because often we as humans are the movers of the pieces. When we become the pieces ourselves, that’s when we have to think about things. It’s one thing to pretend a plastic figurine gets wrapped up in a net and taken by a ghostly ship captain. It’s another to be a person wrapped up in a net and taken by a ghostly ship captain. The regard of Nadine and Johnathan’s life came at the risk of playing a board game to try and survive what it could throw at them. And what the game threw at them molded their characters beyond the cardboard stocks we were given earlier. I’m sure people who dislike this episode will say “nothing Nadine and Johnathan did was that remarkable to their characters”. And that may be true to an extent, but I feel I saw Johnathan’s walking meme status shrink to a form of respect to his intelligence we didn’t see come out of him until the situations started adding up. And I noticed the humility of Nadine’s character making her more of a realer person that understand’s the boundary of bravery and insanity given the events that transpired. There are gaps in the story as in why these old men created a board game inside of a house to collect the souls of the kids who play it. But I say the details to that doesn’t really matter. As the story does a good job showing what the consequences were, what the point of the house was, and how this operation continues via the ending.
I’d dare say this is my favorite single length episode from the show, only because of how memorable the plot is. It’s a fun, imaginative romp with ingenuity and sparkle to dazzle you. It is very well paced, has great music, atmosphere, is comedic and scary at the same time and delivers such a powerful darkness punch that I can only rave about it.
Conclusion:
All in all, I think this is a great episode. It might not be great for everyone but it is great for me. The positives were great in this, with some passable elements such as certain performances and effects chosen. But nothing too dire to deduct anything on. The only negative I had was Benjamin Plenner as an actor really. It could’ve been an A+ episode if we had someone in the caliber if Chuck Greene’s actor from the Haunted Mask episodes. But I digress. I give this episode a(n):
A
You mean Cat?
I have to say that I actually liked both the book and episode equally besides the acting from Nadine and Jonathan in this episode. The actress who plays Nadine is also from the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode The Tale of the Lazer Maze episode.
The fisherman must be very strong to be able to physically reel Jonathan in, in the net.
If you can catch a school of fish, then you've built up muscle.
@@WolfEntertainment nets like that aren't designed and meant to catch hold a person only fish and other aquatic animals. The actor playing the fisherman would have to be very, very, very, very, very strong to reel him. I really wonder and would love to know how they did it
@@jamesm6862 Most likely they used alternate shots. They show the fisherman shooting & dragging his net in some shots, while every time we see Jonathan getting dragged it's the stage crew of like 6 people out of frame sliding him towards the fisherman's direction.
@@WolfEntertainment that might be true. But if the actor playing the fisherman really did reel him he would have to be very, very, very, very, very strong like the strongest person in the world. The fisherman and actor playing him looks very, very skinny and Jonathan is a good size grown teenager bigger them him. If he really did reel him that would be cool
@@WolfEntertainment I just like to think the actor playing the fisherman really did reel him. Nets like that are not designed and meant to hold support carrying a person only fish and other small aquatic animals the actor playing the fisherman would have to be seriously the strongest person in the world to reel him in Jonathan a good size teenage boy bigger than him.
If there's another review of a Haunted Game-themed episode involving dice, maybe you could use the following for opening & closing music.
- Die House, from Cuphead (the videogame)
- Roll the Dice, from The Cuphead Show original soundtrack
Awesome video bro! Happy Late Easter. Imagine if there were an episode that's exactly like those horror games like Granny, Scary Hostpital, SCP Containment Breach, Baldi's Basics, Detention, or the Backrooms.
Dude you don’t get as much as attention as you deserve. Your better than TH-camrs with 1mill.
Neat review. You going to do Night of the Living Dummy III next?
Nope, a Patron requested a different surprise.
Attack of the Jack-o-lantern Gold skull
Click Gold skull
Deep trouble Silver Skull
Werewolf of Fever Swamp (1,500 subscribers special)Gold Skull
Vampire Breath Silver Skull
Cry of the Cat (2,100 subscribers)Bronze Skull
Welcome to Dead House Gold Skull
Night of the living Dummy II Gold Skull
The house of no return gold skull
An old Story bronze skull
Bad hare day Bronze skull
Awesome Ants 🐜 Gold skull
Ghost 👻 beach 🌊🏝 Decayed skull
You can’t scare me Decayed Skull
The haunted mask Gold skull
It came beneath the sink decayed skull
Perfect school🏫 gold skull
The scarecrow walk at Midnight Gold skull
One day at Horrorland Gold skull 👹
Haunted Mask 2 (The worst but better sequel than Son of The mask) Gold skull
The Ghost next door 🚪👻 (So the movie of Goosebumps Hannah was ok)Gold skull
Werewolf Skin(Jon Talbain: I'm no monster... but tonight, I'll make an exception.) silver skull (the skull that kill werewolf)
The Haunted House Game (The game should be a Scooby doo meet Jumanji movie and the background almost need to be the chess ♟♟♟ board from RWBY season 9 with the song Checkmate and a Mario Party References ) gold Skull
Kinda feels like a 90s version of the 2 escape room movies I mean about as cheesy and as mildly scary as estate of panic on the Syfy channel back in the early 2000s that and a kinda 90s take on grave encounters 1 and 2
There isn't too much to say here. It's a bit out there and basically In Name Only but otherwise it is fun. There's some cool moments and nice set design, and it moves along nicely. It's pretty memorable and fun, but I do like the short story more this time.
When it said roll a Seven go to Heaven. That's just it's way of saying you win and you're free to go. It's lucky number 7 after all. They thought they were going to go to Heaven literally. And they freaked out cause I think they don't feel ready to go there yet. While yes we all do want to go to Heaven. We have to earn that.
Is nobody going to talk about how very, very incredibly strong the fisherman is for carrying Jonathan with just his hand?
Whalers are buff.
@@WolfEntertainment he's very skinny like a skeleton and Jonathan's physically bigger than him
FINALLY MY REQUEST
Same here now I'm waiting for episode
How I got my Shrunken Head
Keep up the good work I will always support you
Appreciate it, Kev. Thanks for enjoying our channel.
@@WolfEntertainment your very welcome
Interesting enough how the short story and the episode of The Haunted House game are completely different from each other entirely. I loved the short story with how great and atmospheric it was with the kids playing the game they find in their own with their supernatural stuff and how great the twist was. As for the episode it's just okay. The sets of the Gameworld are the best part of it and they still look great today. However the acting from the main characters and the predictable twists are what ruins it from being one of my favorite episodes. I definitely like the short story better but I will say the episode is one game I wouldn't mind playing every once in awhile.
I never noticed the little girl mini figure before until your review. Yeah I been completely confused of this episode's twist for that long.
But yeah the twist villains were never a twist for me as a kid. Since the episode makes it so obvious.
Also I never got the implication that the old ladies were former victims until now.
I know Disney+ is making a new Goosebumps Series, but I still think that it's going to be a bad idea.
I mean sure, they're taking a different approach similar to what sony did with the Goosebumps movie, but still...With Disney taking the helm of it, it's not going to end well. Disney will, without a doubt, butcher everything we know about the beloved R.L. Stine series.
I know that Disney also took on R.L. Stine's Just Beyond, but that series turned out good so I can see why they would put Goosebumps on Disney+, but for something as popular as Goosebumps, You know that's where things might go wrong. Disney likes to turn popular things into MORE Popular things, like what they're doing to their original animated films.
I don't think it was a great idea for Sony, or even Scholastic (if they are behind it too) to give Disney the rights to produce the upcoming new series. If Disney was to do a good job at Goosebumps, they should have their episodes faithful to the actual books, and be in a somewhat similar style to the original TV series...but also be it's own thing if it wanted.
I got feeling after all these years on this episode that little girl is probably one of the ghost who trick Jonathan and Nadine into that old house to find the board game so on rule 5 of the board game roll a seven go to Heaven if you like roll a seven on the dice 🎲 you automatically win the game without the objects?
Insert theme song for this episode surviving the game by skillet here... LoL
But yeah kinda forgot about this episode again I was still only young when this series was going on like 6 years of my life was committed to the 90s as a whole so yeah...
Also have to ask the question with french Canadians and their tropes again if you know their tropes you know what I'm talking about why trapped in a board game and I mean later on down the line odd squad would be using this same premise for a one off episode of their series so yeah...
As a slime fan suggestion for Monster Blood for the next one or Go Eat Worms to see how bad it is
Why did the fisherman only catch Jonathan? When the reels Jonathan in he laughs manically laughing I got you you have Jonathan and not Nadine?
He caught the bigger fish.
@@WolfEntertainment Jonathan is the bigger fish?
Hey my friend I'm enjoying your videos
Can u do night of the living dummy lll: part 1 ?
Odds are he'll do both parts in one video
Oh no!!! I being suck in to this awesome review…nice.
I agreed with you in all points.
what did you mean by John Carpenter's The Fog nets Johnny boy?
The visuals kind of spell it out.
@@WolfEntertainment why did you call Johnny boy?
@@jamesm6862 His name's Jonathan & he's a boy. Seems like 2 and 2 go together.
Let's hurry up and found those dice 🎲🎲 kids Goosebumps reviews will be right back on Wolf Entertainment
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We're back with more Goosebumps reviews on Wolf Entertainment okay kids let's hurry up and win this game I really want to get out of this creepy old house 🏠