Invaders from the Big Screen

Give Yourself Goosebumps #29

by R.L. Stine

In a scream-a-thon with more than twenty different endings, movie creatures such as Godzilla and half-alligator mutants virtually jump out of the movie screen when the reader sneaks into the Movie Magic Multiplex. Original.

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Middle Grade, Gamebooks, Childrens, Choose Your Own Adventure

137 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1998

About the author

Robert Lawrence Stine known as R. L. Stine and Jovial Bob Stine, is an American novelist and writer, well known for targeting younger audiences. Stine, who is often called the Stephen King of children's literature, is the author of dozens of popular horror fiction novellas, including the books in the Goosebumps, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room and Fear Street series.

R. L. Stine began his writing career when he was nine years old, and today he has achieved the position of the bestselling children's author in history. In the early 1990s, Stine was catapulted to fame when he wrote the unprecedented, bestselling Goosebumps® series, which sold more than 250 million copies and became a worldwide multimedia phenomenon. His other major series, Fear Street, has over 80 million copies sold.

Stine has received numerous awards of recognition, including several Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards and Disney Adventures Kids' Choice Awards, and he has been selected by kids as one of their favorite authors in the NEA's Read Across America program. He lives in New York, NY.

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Reviews

[Brandon · Rating 4 out of 5]

So in preparation for seeing probably my most anticipated movie of the year M3gan. I wanted the full experience.So I figured what book do I have that is about movie theater?Behold Invaders From The Big Screen,a Give Yourself Goosebumps book.I've been wanting to read some of these this year,so let's start.The story begins with you and your friend Laura going to this new movie theater that just opened up called Blastovision.You get three choices of movies,House Of 100 Horrors,Agent Z vs Dr. Auqua or Going Ape in Blastovision. If you choose The House Of 100 Horrors you get sucked inside the movie and end up with these two twins a boy and a girl named John and Wendy.They need your help finding their Aunt Kathryn.So you have to explore this castle like place,but watch out for werewolves,talking paintings,vampires,armored knights with nothing inside the armor, and pianos and other musical instruments that can do some pretty gory damage.If you go see Agent Z vs Dr. Auqua.You get this James Bond type guy after this creature from the black lagoon type super villain, who wants to flood the world complete with humanigators, half alligators and half human who were actually written pretty scarily.And the last movie you get to pick is Going Ape in Blastovision. You get pulled into the screen from this giant ape on the screen and your all of a sudden in a tropical jungle running away from giant snakes, "cannibals" and hunters,depending on the route you take.I really liked Invaders From The Big Screen. it was really a fun Give Yourself Goosebumps book.I do think I liked the house of 100 horror the best followed up by Going Ape in Blastovision and then lastly Agent Z vs Dr. Auqua.But even that one was really fun. I give Invaders From The Big Screen a four out of five stars. The only reason It didn't get a five was there was no explanation to why you were being sucked into these movies, other then the 3D glasses.Other then that,I could recommend this book.

[Alejandro Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a bizarre read but I enjoyed it. I’m just gonna jump straight into this one, starting with the notable upside of the book’s concepts. I really like the idea of movies becoming real. It works well for a GyG book and it doesn’t feel limited at all. The ways the movies leak into the real world or vice versa is unique, involving 3D glasses. The movies, or rather the plot lines, are all just okay; none of them are bad but none of them blow me away. The main one with 11 endings was ‘Going Ape’, as seen on the cover of the book. It had overall okay endings and I particularly liked the ending involving the quote-on-quote “cannibals” (for lack of a better word, so it’s not really a spoiler). The giant ape was kinda neat. Now for the action move called ‘Agent Z vs. Dr Aqua’—this was the shortest one of the three. And also the weakest. The only notable thing was the underwater base segment, which I feel was short lived for being pretty cool. The humanigators (they’re in the blurb so don’t attack me for spoilers) are cool creatures, but don’t do a lot. I liked the laboratory; the idea of a room that is just a swamp where the gators stay is really cool to me for some reason, and was described pretty nicely. The secondary plot for this part of the book, where we don’t go into the movie, is really meh. It doesn’t go anywhere much and we just get a couple fine endings out of it. I do like the idea of the theater flooding. That was honestly really cool. And finally, the ‘House of a Hundred Horrors” was like a baby version of Payne House. It was pretty cool with the paintings and the later endings you get as you go deeper into the story, but it’s kinda weak until then. Not a lot happens in this one. Overall, the book suffers from being generally just okay and not ever getting great or even awesome. There are things I do really like but not many of them. Also, bad endings per usual. The book gets a 7/10, it feels like it didn’t explore the idea as much as it easily could’ve. And the plots weren’t the best choices for a GyG. Anyways, watching horror in blastovision would be horrible.

[Hunter Norton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Question #2: What was the most exciting part and why?
I found that the most exciting part of this particular book for me personally was the scene where the giant ape was running through his jungle habitat with "me" and Laura in his palms. The scenery was very descriptive with a lot of very powerful words that give you a deeper meaning and understanding of what everything looks like, what "myself" and my acquaintance Laura are doing and saying. I thoroughly enjoyed the fact that you can choose whichever path you wish in the story with multiple different potential endings that the writer(s) have come up with it gives a real sense of personalisation and that is one of the features I really like in the book.

[Nader Nate · Rating 3 out of 5]

6.5/10

[fanboyriot · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was okay but the ending kinda feel flat.