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By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Even using the exaggerated standards befitting a precocious child actor, Bailee Madison can be said to have an extremely sunny disposition. The 12-year-old rising star is genuinely kind and courteous, immediately and effortlessly turning an over-the-phone interview into a real conversation. She emphasizes how important schoolwork is to her, despite her demanding acting schedule, and she even makes time to serve as a national spokesperson for the childhood-cancer charity Alex’s Lemonade Stand. So what’s this sweet little girl’s obsession with horror stories? Aside from terrifying audiences on the big screen in Don’t Be Afraid of […]

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Having survived the big-budget blockbuster horrors presented in last summer’s Super 8,  Riley Griffiths is facing sinister forces yet again in his follow-up effort, an episode of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour that pits him against a malevolent mascot willing to resort to any means necessary to keep its station. That’s right. Not all those furry folks who tread the sidelines at football and basketball games are so friendly. In “Mascot,” Griffiths’ character Willie is repulsed by Big Yellow, his high school’s mangy dancing … whatever it is, and is convinced that installing a new […]

I started my conversation with Dylan Minnette by telling him how much I hated his guts. And the young star took it as the compliment it was intended to be. We were on the phone to discuss Minnette’s turn in this week’s episode of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, where he plays the lead role in a nasty little ditty called “Brush With Madness.” But I had just finished ushering in Halloween a couple days earlier by rewatching Let Me In, the intense vampire story that features Minnette all-too-convincingly portraying a loathsome bully (link NSFW) who makes the main character’s […]

By Stacey Harrison Follow @ChannelGuideSRH Being the youngest sibling of a world-famous musical trio may bring you lots of perks, but it might not be enough to protect you from an evil pumpkin farmer. Frankie Jonas finds this out in tonight’s episode of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, which premieres at 5pm. In “Pumpkinhead,” Jonas plays the youngest sibling in a group of kids who find themselves alone on Halloween night. Living in a town where kids have gone missing the last few years, trick-or-treating has been severely restricted. Looking for a little excitement, they head out to a pumpkin […]

It’s a good time to be Dakota Goyo. The 12-year-old actor has been earning wild praise for his role in Real Steel, the current No. 1 movie in America, in which he more than holds his own against co-star Hugh Jackman and a bunch of giant CGI robots. He also shared screen time earlier this year with Anthony Hopkins, playing the younger version of Chris Hemsworth in Thor. This weekend his path to stardom makes a pit stop on The Hub, where he will star in “Flight,” an episode of R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour airing at 5pm Saturday. Goyo […]