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Actually Pretty Scary: While a lot of the show was the type of "scares you as kids, but not when older" softball you'd expect from a low-budget children's horror anthology series, even a few hard-core horror blogs admit that the show occasionally stumbled upon a really scary story (not surprising, since more than a few were adapted from older not-kid-friendly horror stories such as "The Monkey's Paw.")
Complete Monster "Brother Septimus" by the "tale of caved stones" hypnotisting sardo and the protagonist.
Or it could have been more pragmatic. There were a couple of scenes where the reptile in question needed to scamper pretty quickly, and since chameleons are slow moving, they decided to pick something that was faster.
The Twilight Zone episode "A Most Unusual Camera" was the basis for both "The Tale of the Curious Camera" and Goosebumps: Say Cheese and Die!.
The Twisted Claw episode was inspired by a story called "The Monkey's Paw".
Special Effects Failure: Due to the low budget, practically every episode. The one that stands out the most was an episode where a bunch of kids were kidnapped onto an alien spacecraft and forced to eat a horrible alien food product... which was clearly and obviously lime-flavoured jello in a bowl.
This ended up being beneficial in ways as episodes often had to use frightening ideas and imagery(e.g. a girl suddenly standing on the other side of the window in the middle of the night) rather than special effects, which made it scarier.
What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: Well it is, but death is thrown around freely that it becomes pretty disturbing for a youngster.
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Uncanny Valley: The wax statues, especially the wax audience.
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