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Quick Summary
- Streaming now: The Nightmare Room is available for free on Tubi.
- Original air date: The series debuted in 2001 on KidsWB!.
- Notable cast: Stars included Shia LeBeouf, Kaley Cuoco, and Brenda Song.
- Similar shows: It’s reminiscent of The Twilight Zone and Goosebumps.
Here’s fun bit of news for fans of horror shows or R.L. Stine specifically: The Nightmare Room, the author’s children’s horror anthology series that wasn’t Goosebumps, is now streaming free on Tubi.
First released on KidsWB! in 2001 for a single 13-episode season, the series featured childhood fears such like ghosts and monsters. Stylistically, it was similar to The Twilight Zone with its opening and closing narration from Fresh Prince’s James Avery, and its big claim to fame is each episode starring young child stars who’d go on to become famous, including Shia LeBeouf, Kaley Cuoco, and Brenda Song. It’s also the first of only two live-action shows to ever air on KidsWB!, preceded by the sci-fi puppet series Brats of the Lost Nebula.
Like Fox’s Goosebumps series, the Nightmare Room show was based on a series of kids books Stine wrote, which wrapped with a trilogy back in 2001. In the decades since, we’ve seen new adaptations of Goosebumps and Fear Street, so maybe it’s just a matter of time before a studio decides to take another stab at Nightmare. Either way, it does sound like the show’s been lost to time—so if you need something new and scary to watch for Halloween, maybe give this one a shot.
[via BloodyDisgusting]
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