Disney’s Goosebumps Updates Slappy’s Backstory 30 Years After He Was Created

Although Slappy the Dummy returns in the 2023 Goosebumps series, the villain has been given an all-new origin story. The Goosebumps franchise has changed its face many times over the years. First, it was a series of children’s horror novels by author R.L. Stine. Then, there was an anthology horror TV show that adapted the books for the small screen. A decade and a half later, Goosebumps spawned two live-action movies that took the franchise in a more self-aware comedic direction, with Jack Black playing a fictionalized version of Stine, who tries to stop the many monsters of his novels from invading the real world.