After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
A brief scene depicts a vampire-poodle, implying that at some point said poodle was killed to make it a vampire in the first place. Probably. Maybe. This is R.L. Stine we're talking. Said poodle is, at the very least, established to be completely immortal, like all the other monsters.
Police negligence and endangering multiple children. They are called to a domestic dispute and first off tell the supposed abuser they are there for a domestic dispute, which could have potentially lead to further abuse or even the death of the victim as it often does in real life. They also completely misbelieve the witness and trust the abuser when he says the girl isn’t home which is a lie. They are played as dumb and incompetent.
Embarrassing situations between a mother and teen child, which might be triggering for people that where abused in that way. It is not specifically abuse in the film. One includes pressuring a teen to wear a silly hat. One includes locking a child in a car and trying to go into the school with him as a teacher, which he mentions is like socially weird and a recipe for bullying.
A weird father next door with a teen child acts very controlling and forbids her to see other people or make friends. He comes off strict if not abusive. They get into an argument loudly and the main character calls the police thinking DV is happening when she screams, he is threatened by the father. He calls the cops who “question” him really poorly and believes that his daughter is not home with no proof. If this was a domestic case, they could’ve just put that girl in serious danger of more DV and even death, as happens in real life when cops ignore reports of DV, which often happens regardless of proof. They hear a scream which is revealed to be the TV. They try to arrest the child after he darts upstairs calling out for the girl and the police stop him. They say he’s on drugs and reccomend he be institutionalised. Later he sees the girl in the window again and makes a plan to save her. They call him a psychopath and break in to save her but she’s fine and thinks they are intruders. They are later put in danger by various monsters.
A boys phone is destroyed because he unconsentually took a picture of someone. That could’ve been his only way to contact his parents or friends.
Stein throws a heavy object at intruders, which are revealed to be the two teenage boys, they said he could’ve killed them if he didn’t have terrible aim.
Giant praying mantis vomits green goo. When you see a giant praying while they’re in the car look away quickly. The sound isnt graphic at all just like splattering sounds but the actual vomit is semi- graphic
No but one of the characters ends up in positions or situations where the joke is that he looks gay. One is when two boys fall over, one of them falls on top of the other and they look like they’re hugging, he pushes the other boy off, embarrassed. Another is when they are faced with a threat a boy screams high pitched and “girlishly”. He is judged for his scream by another boy.
A child is told by his aunt he was an ugly baby. “Ugly” being a term with a lot of weight when it comes to disability and visual differences.
The person they think is evil is called a “psychopath”, which is an ableist term being used incorrectly. It is a subtype of people with Antisocial Personality Disorder, the other subtype being sociopaths. The term is often misused as a catchall for anyone evil, murderous, “crazy” etc, which armchair diagnoses them as having ASPD and reinforces the idea that people with ASPD are inherently dangerous people because of a disorder when we are not.
Someone is thought to be on drugs and “acting crazy” and the cops reccomend a rehab place he can stay, which is another form of institutionalization and ableism, assuming someone is on drugs when their reality doesn’t align with yours.
Stein reveals he had allergies that kept him from going outside and alienated from peers.
One of the side characters is the obvious “weird kid” trope.
Stein is a Jewish last name. The person it belongs to has a child who we think is being abused and is hidden away from others. This is similar to blood libel tropes.