R.L. Stine’s Cult TV Sequence ‘The Nightmare Room’ Has Hit Tubi

Right here’s enjoyable bit of stories for followers of horror exhibits or R.L. Stine particularly: The Nightmare Room, the writer’s kids’s horror anthology collection that wasn’t Goosebumps, is now streaming free on Tubi.

First launched on KidsWB! in 2001 for a single 13-episode season, the collection featured childhood fears such like ghosts and monsters. Stylistically, it was just like The Twilight Zone with its opening and shutting narration from Contemporary Prince’s James Avery, and its large declare to fame is every episode starring younger baby stars who’d go on to change into well-known, together with Shia LeBeouf, Kaley Cuoco, and Brenda Track. It’s additionally the primary of solely two live-action exhibits to ever air on KidsWB!, preceded by the sci-fi puppet collection Brats of the Misplaced Nebula.

Like Fox’s Goosebumps collection, the Nightmare Room present was based mostly on a collection of children books Stine wrote, which wrapped with a trilogy again in 2001. Within the a long time since, we’ve seen new variations of Goosebumps and Fear Street, so possibly it’s only a matter of time earlier than a studio decides to take one other stab at Nightmare. Both manner, it does sound just like the present’s been lost to time—so if you happen to want one thing new and scary to observe for Halloween, possibly give this one a shot.

[via BloodyDisgusting]

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