Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he makes a quick friend in Champ (Ryan Lee), and meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But, don’t forget about that silver lining’s cloud. When he learns that Hannah’s dad is in fact R.L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series, Zach soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret.
The creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Stine’s creations are unintentionally released from their manuscripts, Zach’s life takes a turn for the weird. In a crazy night of adventure, it’s up to Zach, Hannah, Champ, and Stine to team up and get all of these figments of Stine’s imagination – including Slappy the Dummy, the girl with the haunted mask, the gnomes and many more – back in the books where they belong.
