Goosebumps

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Season 1

• Main
  • Zack Morris as Isaiah, the star quarterback of the Port Lawrence High School football team
  • Isa Briones as Margot, Isaiah’s neighbor and friend
  • Miles McKenna as James, Isaiah’s best friend who is from one of the wealthiest families in Port Lawrence
  • Ana Yi Puig as Isabella, a girl ignored at school and neglected by her mother
  • Will Price as Lucas, a teenager who likes extreme sports and has become very reckless since the passing of his father
  • Rachael Harris as Nora, Lucas’s mother
  • Justin Long as Mr. Nathan Bratt, the new English teacher at Port Lawrence High School who inherits the Biddle House and becomes possessed by Harold Biddle’s spirit
• Recurring
  • Rob Huebel as Colin, Margot’s father and a guidance counsellor at Port Lawrence High School
  • Leonard Roberts as Ben, Isaiah’s father
  • Ben Cockell as Harold Biddle, a teenager who died in a mysterious house fire in 1993
  • Rhinnan Payne as Allison, Isaiah’s girlfriend
  • Françoise Yip as Victoria, Isabella’s overly strict mother
  • Laura Mennell as Eliza, James’s multi-millionaire mother
  • Lexa Doig as Sarah, Margot’s estranged mother, who was involved in Harold Biddle’s death
  • Chris Geere as Kanduu / Slappy the Dummy, Harold’s evil ventriloquist dummy. Geere also portrays Kanduu, an evil sorcerer whose spirit was trapped inside Slappy’s body.
• Guest
  • Eddie Jemison as Ephraim Bratt, Harold’s great-grandfather, who was given Slappy in 1925
  • Jonathan Silverman and Gillian Vigman as Perry and Georgia Biddle, Harold’s parents, who along with their son, move into the house in 1993

Season 2

• Main
  • David Schwimmer as Anthony
  • Ana Ortiz as Jen
  • Isabella Ferreira as Young Jen
  • Jayden Bartels as Cece
  • Sam McCarthy as Devin
  • Elijah M. Cooper as CJ
  • Francesca Noel as Alex
  • Galilea La Salvia as Frankie
• Recurring
  • Stony Blyden as Trey, Frankie’s boyfriend
  • Sakina Jaffrey as Ramona Pamani
  • Christopher Paul Richards as Matty
  • Eloise Payet as Hannah
  • Arjun Athalye as Sameer
  • Kyra Tantao as Nicole
• Guest
  • Sendhil Ramamurthy as Dr. Avi Pamani

Storyline

In the first season, a group of five high school students embark on a shadowy and twisted journey to investigate the tragic passing three decades earlier of a teen named Harold Biddle — while also unearthing dark secrets from their parents’ past.

In the second season, twins Cece and Devin, on a vacation at their father’s, decide to enter an abandoned and supposedly haunted Fort with a few friends, without realizing they’re setting off a chain of events that will unravel a profound mystery connected to the mysterious disappearance of four teenagers 30 years back.

About Goosebumps TV Series

Goosebumps is an American supernatural horror television series developed by Rob Letterman and Nicholas Stoller for Disney+ and Hulu. It is based on the book series by R. L. Stine. The series abandons the episodic anthology format of the 1995 first television series to focus on a serialized-anthology style of storytelling instead, changing storylines from season to season instead of episode to episode while still featuring some of the existing Goosebumps monsters and items episodically.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, producers of the Goosebumps (2015) film approached director Rob Letterman with the idea of adapting the popular book series into a TV series. Enthusiastic about the opportunity, Letterman agreed and brought in his longtime collaborator, Nicholas Stoller, to help develop the series. Stoller, drawn to the horror genre and his relationship with Letterman, also signed on to the project.

On April 28, 2020, it was officially announced that Scholastic Entertainment, Sony Pictures Television, and Neal H. Moritz’s Original Film were collaborating on a live-action Goosebumps reboot for TV. This partnership followed the success of the 2015 film and its sequel. By March 2021, R.L. Stine confirmed that the series had secured a producer and a director. In February 2022, Disney+ picked up the series with a 10-episode order. Letterman returned from the 2015 film to direct the pilot, write, and serve as an executive producer, with Stoller on board as well. The series was partially developed via Zoom calls due to the pandemic’s lockdowns.

By October 2023, producers Conor Welch and Pavun Shetty expressed interest in adapting additional Goosebumps books for future seasons. Shetty specifically mentioned a desire to explore the Night of the Living Dummy series in the second season. On February 10, 2024, it was announced that the series would return for an eight-episode second season, focusing on a different cast and storyline.

In October 2022, the cast was revealed, including Justin Long, Ana Yi Puig, Miles McKenna, Will Price, Zack Morris, Isa Briones, and Rachael Harris. Rob Huebel was added in a recurring guest role in January 2023. R.L. Stine made a voice cameo in “Night of the Living Dummy Part 2” as the host of a podcast, Let the Write One In, after plans for a physical cameo were altered due to his availability. Showrunner Hilary Winston and co-executive producer James Egan pitched the podcast idea instead.

In March 2024, new cast members for season two were announced, including David Schwimmer, Ana Ortiz, Sam McCarthy, Jayden Bartels, Elijah Cooper, Galilea La Salvia, and Francesca Noel. Later in May, Arjun Athalye, Eloise Payet, Christopher Paul Richards, Kyra Tantao, Stony Blyden, and Sakina Jaffrey joined in recurring roles.

Principal photography for the series began in October 2022 in Vancouver, with filming wrapping in March 2023. Additional scenes were shot at Whistler Olympic Park in February 2023. At Letterman’s request, the production team emphasized the use of practical effects to enhance the horror elements of the show, aiming for a grounded and realistic look that would immerse audiences in the terrifying events alongside the characters.

Goosebumps Release Date

Goosebumps debuted on Friday, October 13, 2023, on Disney+ and Hulu. Five episodes from the ten-part series debuted as part of the streamers’ annual “Hallowstream” and “Huluween” celebrations. New episodes followed every week thereafter until November 17, when the first season concluded. Additionally, the series’ first two episodes aired October 13 on Freeform as part of “31 Nights of Halloween.” The entire first season was scheduled to air on the network on October 25, 2024. The second season titled Goosebumps: The Vanishing was released on Disney+ and Hulu on January 10, 2025, consisting of eight episodes.

According to the streaming aggregator JustWatch, Goosebumps was the seventh most watched television series across all platforms in the United States during the week of October 9–15, 2023, and the third during the week of October 16–22, 2023. According to the streaming aggregator Reelgood, Goosebumps was the ninth most watched program across all platforms in the United States during the week of October 12, 2023. According to Whip Media’s TV Time, Goosebumps was the eighth most watched original series across all platforms in the United States during the week of October 22, 2023, and the seventh during the week of October 29, 2023.

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