Goosebumps clip featuring jack black and a giant mantis. Giant praying mantis given that goosebumps is going from the book world to the movie world, it only makes sense to adapt a monster that started off as a movie character in the book a shocker on. Stines goosebumps book series when the movie opens oct. This is a list of books from the goosebumps book series written by r. Along the way, the group is attacked by brent green from my best friend is invisible and the giant praying mantis from a shocker on shock street, forcing them to. Praying mantis goosebumps omniversal battlefield wiki. The cover shows one of the giant praying mantises on shock street with its forearm on a stoplight and its rear left foot on a car. The action is structured around a series of encounters with the book s iconic monstrosities like the werewolf of fever swamp, the giant praying mantis, and slappy the evil ventriloquists. Its anatomy is more inline with real insects, lacking the tongue, and sporting the green coloration typically associated with praying mantises.
It is one of the monsters to be released from one of r. The book the giant mantis appears in is a shocker on shock street. The giant praying mantis is an organic 50foottall insect instead of a. The mantis is apparently the only one of its kind and considerably larger at least fifty feet high when reared up. Goosebumps movie, starring jack black school of rock as r. In this clip, stine and his group are attacked by a giant praying mantis. The goosebumps movie is directed by rob letterman shark tale, gullivers travels and stars jack black as r. From the design of the giant robot mantis as it proceeds to wreak havoc upon the quaint looking shock street to the sunset behind it just making the sky aglow with yellows, oranges, reds and purples. Stine and stars jeremy ray taylor, caleel harris, madison iseman, dylan minnette, ryan lee, and odeya rush, with jack black reprising his role from the first and. Giant praying mantis appeared in the 1995 goosebumps literature called a shocker on shock street. Entertainment tonight has released the first clip from sony pictures horrorcomedy goosebumps movie, starring jack black school of rock as r. There are differences in the giant praying mantis from the book and the movie though. Goosebumps stars talk monsters and memories at world premiere. Praying mantis is from one of the goosebumps books shocker on shock street and is one of the antagonists of the book, and is one of the antagonists of the film adaptation.
The original goosebumps series lasted for all of 62 books, including such famous titles as the haunted mask which was also the first episode of the tv adaptation, shown as an hourlong special episode, welcome to camp nightmare, the night of the living dummy series there were three in the original series, but the other spin offs and successor series have had at least one story with slappy as the antagonist, and the monster blood series the fourth and last of which being the final book. Ironically, the book refers to shock street as a series of movies ala elm street. Goosebumps 510 movie clip attack of the giant praying mantis. Giant praying mantis sucked for eternity into the book with no way to get back. In the book, the mantis is animatronics but the one in the film is biological. Stine offers good fun with its bumpinthenight frights translating well from book to film. Goosebumps features the giant mantis from a shocker on shock street. Its a beautiful piece of work, indicative of classic 1950s bhorror films. Enter your mobile number or email address below and well send you a link to download the free kindle app. The giant praying mantis is a supporting antagonist in sony pictures animations th feature film goosebumps, which is based on the book series of the same name. The abominable snowmans fur is white instead of brown. They find a mysterious shelf full of locked goosebumps books, and when. I loved the goosebumps books and less so, but still, the tv show when i was growing up.
The giant praying mantis is just one of the many creatures loosed from the pages of r. Stine s best selling ya novel a shocker on shock street. In the book, the mantises are described as being three times the height of erin which, given her age, would put them somewhere between twelve and fifteen feet high with silvery exoskeletons. Features large over sized cards with art from the scholastic books. A shocker on shock street and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. If your children have read the book, you can discuss how the book s plot compares to the movie, as is done in the descriptions below. Horrorland is a live action 3d cgi american horror comedy film. The cover of a shocker on shock street is one of the more iconic goosebumps covers, but fans of the book know that the giant praying mantis in the novel is actually an android, not a. Slappy is the mastermind, but the giant praying mantis causes the. The original goosebumps series lasted for all of 62 books, including such famous titles as the haunted mask which was also the first episode of the tv adaptation, shown as an hourlong special episode, welcome to camp nightmare, the night of the living dummy series there were three in the original series, but the other spin offs and successor series have had at least one story with slappy as the.
A shocker on shock street is the thirtyfifth book in the original goosebumps book series. The cover shows one of the giant praying mantises on shock street with its. The first book, welcome to dead house, was published in july 1992. Giant praying mantises are abnormally large bugs that appear in the goosebumps book a shocker on shock street. Giant praying mantises are insectlike monsters that appear in the thirtyfifth goosebumps book, a shocker on shock street. Unlike its book counterpart, however, this mantis is much more deadly. Goosebumps movie clip giant praying mantis attack 2015 jack black, r. Giant mantis versus werewolf, slappy versus the mummy, this easy and fun card game uses different characteristics to determine which monster will come out on top. Five years later, the goosebumps series ran to over sixty books, with individual volumes selling millions of copies every month and regularly appearing on bestseller lists.
Stine, the famous author who, as it turns out, writes his books in order to keep. Comes back for an unknown reason in haunted halloween hannah stine sucked for eternity into the. Given that goosebumps is going from the book world to the movie world, it only makes sense to adapt a. Goosebumps is a 2015 american fantasy computeranimated liveaction horror comedy film directed by rob letterman, based on the scholastic goosebumps books written by r. The giant mantis shows up at the school and attacks a student close to the window. While in the cave of the living creeps, erin wright and marty find themselves surrounded by a halfdozen giant praying mantises. They might have been robots in the book, but the goosebumps movies giant praying mantises look like they might be the real deal. Slappy the dummy sucked for eternity into the book with no way to get back. First appearing in the book a shocker on shock street, the giant praying mantis is one of the giant animatronic insects that stine created for the goosebumps franchise. Lego goosebumps giant praying mantis back in the book. Stine in this featurefilm adaptation of the popular ya book series. Giant praying mantis galactic creatures wiki fandom. I think if a kid watches this weird interpretation now, at the age that i was then, they might enjoy it.
This is another one of my all time favorite goosebumps covers. Goosebumps 510 movie clip attack of the giant praying. All 62 original goosebumps books ranked from best to worst page. Stines manuscripts by slappy, and wreak havoc on the town. Zach implores stine to write a new book that can lock all the monsters back, but it can only be done with a supernatural typewriter in the school. Haunted halloween and 2015s goosebumps, it is based on the childrens horror book series of the same name by r. Stine worriedly claims he doesnt remember writing about it in one of his books. Goosebumps stars talk monsters and memories at world. Goosebumps clip unleashes a giant praying mantis movieweb.
Welcome to dead house, a childrens book in which a houseful of zombies causes chaos in the small american town of dark falls. Monster blood is one of the most popular goosebumps books and has. Though never stated one way or the other, the mantis seems to be biological now, suggesting that its borrowed from the books cover, rather than the text itself. This is reflected on the cover of the classic goosebumps edition of the abominable snowman of pasadena. Outstanding childactor performances, goosebumps, bond. Will blake is 17 instead of 12, and his werewolf form he is more wolflike. A giant mantis and werewolf highlight new goosebumps. Watch jack black battle the giant praying mantis in the first clip from. Compare some of the popular goosebumps books with the classic films that inspired them in the list below and then pick your favorites for a campy movie night. Goosebumps movie clip giant praying mantis attack 2015. Giant praying mantis attacks in first goosebumps clip comic book. Giant praying mantis attacks in first goosebumps clip. Giant praying mantis sony pictures animation wiki fandom.
One of the best monsters stine created is the giant praying mantis creature thats found in a shocker on shock street. Stines best selling ya novel a shocker on shock street. New goosebumps images featuruing jack black, dylan minnette, odeya rush, amy ryan, jillian bell, ryan lee and ken marino. A shocker on shock street is the thirtyfifth book in the original goosebumps book. Based on the goosebumps book series published by scholastic and written by r. When you look a little bit closer you see that the mantis is metallic. It manages to follow them to a grocery store, but they already escaped, so it destroys the car.