Brahms (2016)

Brahms is a 2016 American fantasy computer-animated live-action horror comedy film directed by Sam Raimi, based on the best-selling children's book franchise of the same name by author Neil Steinberg. The film stars Christian Slater as Neil Steinberg, Brandon Jamar, Giselle Eisenberg, Finn Carr. Summer Fontana, and Shuya Sophie Cai. The film was released in theaters in the United States on October 10, 2016 by Warner Bros Pictures, the film received mostly positive reviews by critics, and was a success at the box office.

The digital version was released in the United States on January 12, 2017, while the Blu-Ray, 3D Blu-Ray, and DVD was released on January 26, 2017.

Synopsis
A young boy named Ben Denberg who everyone calls the “creepy kid” is forced to face his worst nightmare of Paranormal happenings in the creepy town of St, Norwood Maine. When he and his snot nosed friends go into a secret underground basement in the Norwood Inn that there not supposed to go in they accidently find a dusty bookshelf with a bunch of books written by Mr. Neil Steinberg (Christian Slater) that releases a puppet by the name of Chester who goes out and releases a bunch of other monsters to cause havoc in the town of Norwood on Halloween day. Can Brahms, Mr. Steinberg, and his friends be able to stop Chester and his monsters pals before they make their Halloween a spooky and terrifying disaster.

Plot
The film begins with a little girl named Bea Griffin (Mia Allen) riding down the neighborhood on her tricycle singing and being annoying but than stops at a spooky looking house in the neighborhood and gets creeped out by it and tries to leave but her bike gets stuck in the grass and then the door opens and a creepy old man Neil Steinberg himself (Christian Slater) who names himself Mr. Shivers who yells and questions Bea what she's doing on his property and runs over to the little girl and shouts at her "DO YOU WANT TO BE EATEN BY MONSTERS KID" and Bea gets scared and say's no, and Neil gets furious and yells at her the leave and Bea runs and Neil take's her bike as well.

Cast

 * Christian Slater as Neil Steinberg
 * Christian Slater as the voices of Chester the Dummy and The Invisible Boy
 * Brandon Jamar as Ben Denberg
 * Giselle Eisenberg as Alice Marshall
 * Finn Carr as Max Toizer
 * Summer Fontana as Lucy Broadman
 * Shuya Sophia Cai as Emily Yang
 * Jay Ryan as John Evans (Newspaper guy)
 * Bryce Dallas Howard as Ms. Rachel Joy (School Teacher)
 * Emily Beecham as Julie Toizer (Max's Mom)
 * Colin Jost as Officer Harry P. (Norwood Cop 1)
 * Shelby Rabara as Officer Izzy F. (Norwood Cop 2)
 * TBA as Ricky Butch (School Bully)
 * Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen as Victoria Bay (Alice's School Bully)
 * Mia Ronn as Jayden Bellamy (Vic's Friend 1)
 * Trixie Hyde as Penny Simmons (Vic's Friend 2)"
 * Pallavi Sharda as Priya Denberg (Ben's Mom)
 * Irrfan Khan as Harold Denberg (Ben's Grandpa)
 * Mia Allen as Bea Griffin

Production
The first attempt at a Brahms film was endeavored in 2008, with Tim Burton set as the producer. This plan fell through because the scriptwriters could not decide which monster or book should serve as the film's basis.

The film rights to the Brahms series were acquired by Warner Bros. Pictures in 2010, and Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski were hired to write the script. These scriptwriters chose to combine all of the Brahms monsters into one shared universe, as they felt that none of the individual books were, by themselves, long enough for a full-length movie. Deborah Forte, who produced the television series in the 2002, was chosen to produce the film, while Sam Raimi was chosen to direct the film.

According to Neil Steinberg, after someone came up with the idea of using him in the film, production on the film quickened, with the filmmakers ultimately choosing the seventeenth script written for the film. Stine also clarified that as far as he knew, his only real writing contribution to the film was in vetoing two Stephen King and R.L Stein jokes that were going to be used in the film.

Trivia

 * The movie was originally going to be released on August 7, 2016, but was pushed back to April 15, 2017, then once more to October 16, 2016, most likely to fit in with the Halloween spirit, or make it close to the 20th anniversary of the 2002 series.
 * A Goosebumps movie was original gonna be in development that was gonna star Jack Black and was gonna released in 2015 but was canceled by R.L Stein cause he didn't like the direction they were taking the film.
 * Christian Slater voiced both Chester the Dummy and The Invisible Boy

Soundtrack
The score of the film was performed by Danny Elfman.

See Brahms (2016) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for a complete track listing.