The Goosebumps author turns up as a creepy weirdo in this spine-tingling romp full of villains from his bestselling novelsCreators bear been mixing it up with their characters for a while. You can see it in Fellini’s 8½,Woody Allen’s Deconstructing Harry, or, or heck,the Warner Bros cartoon Duck Amuck. Then there are the times when it’s not an author character showing up, but the actual author, or such as Stephen King in The Dark Tower or Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions. Somewhere in between is Charlie Kaufman writing the character Charlie Kaufman for Nicolas Cage to play in Adaptation. Now this intellect-scrambling list needs to find a area for Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander’s character RL Stine – based on the actual creator of the popular Goosebumps novels – who encounters many Goosebumps villains in the new film called Goosebumps.
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Source: theguardian.com