Goosebumps: Movie Trailer Review

So a few days ago, Goosebumps released their first trailer for the upcoming movie. Now before I even read about this movie coming out, I had made the assumption that it was going to be a movie that was based off of an original Goosebumps story. Something like those you would find in the series of books or the short television mini-movies. Then I saw the trailer, and everything changed. However, to say everything went from good to meh isn't entirely accurate. Goosebumps the movie follows a single mom and her new son as they move into a new house. Already, we're getting the same formula to every single horror movie. At this point in the trailer, I thought my expectations could potentially live up to the actual film itself. Then the trailer shows how across the street, a girl lives with her dad whose name is R.L. Stine. What? R.L. Stine wrote the books in the Goosebumps series, he wasn't a part of them himself. This is where my assumption faltered. It is because Goosebumps, the movie, is about people in our world interacting from characters in the world that the series and TV show took place. That was interesting to see, from this point, how they're going to pull this off. What happens is that the boy unleashes old manuscripts from Goosebumps novels. Then creatures and things and all that stuff that kids (our past selves) used to scare us, come into the real world. Only way to get them out, is to recreate the stories in which they came from. Now when I was younger I loved the Goosebumps. I say that strangely because everything that Goosebumps was in the media with, I was a fan of. That being said, I'm curious as to why the groups that put together this movie, didn't go with a Goosebumps-like storyline and instead went to cast Jack Black in the movie as a cash grab. That really doesn't seem like it will be memorable or all that profitable. What would be cool, was if they adapted a story that came from the bowels of Goosebumps. That we would all like to see. I'm not saying that this movie looks bad. In fact, it looks funny and like it could be good with the blending of horror and teenagers playing The Goonies. However, we'll have to wait until october (on halloween, I think) to see this movie come to life and try to get above a 60% on Rotten Tomatoes.