Say Cheese and Die!

"Say Cheese and Die!" is the premiere episode of the Disney+ and Hulu series Goosebumps.
==Synopsis==
During a Halloween party at the Biddle house, star quarterback Isaiah discovers an old camera that causes his life to spiral.
==Plot==
In 1993, Harold Biddle returns home from school and goes into his basement to manage his creepy collection, when a sudden disturbance from something ringing his front door causes him to accidentally set fire to his room. Trapped, the basement explodes, killing him.
In present day 2023, Port Lawrence High preps itself for the upcoming football game. Star player Isaiah is confident that he will get noticed by scouters while his best friend James vies for the affection of another boy named Sam. Isaiah still communicates with his childhood friend, the intellectual Margot, which bothers his girlfriend Allison. Other students include daredevil obsessed Lucas and shy and introverted Isabella. Isaiah learns that in order to play in the upcoming game, he needs to score an A on his history exam the next day, concerning him.
The now abandoned Biddle House is inherited by Nathan Bratt, the new English teacher, who is more amused at his family history then frightened. Ben, Isaiah's father, is a handyman helping repair the house. While trying to open the basement, which is mysteriously locked, Bratt accidentally cuts himself, with his blood somehow opening the door.
Isaiah overhears his parents arguing about his future, concerning him further. He convinces Margot to help him cheat on his history exam so that he can play in the game, in return, he invites her to Allison's Halloween party. Allison initially intended to have her party at her house, but due to an online troll messing with her invitation and sending it to her parents, Isaiah suggests that they hold it in the Biddle House which Bratt has yet to fully move into.
Isaiah, Allison, and James break into the Biddle House to prepare it, with Margot also arriving early. When the power goes out, Isaiah explores the basement to find a breaker box, discovering a mask, a terrarium with worms, and an old polaroid camera. As a joke, he takes a photo of Allison and Margot while James bumps his head on a cuckoo clock. The power returns and the party gets started with more teens arriving. Lucas tries to impress Margot with worms that he found, but deduces that she has issues with Isaiah and Allison, the latter of whom is still aggravated by Margot's presence.
Bratt arrives and sends all the teens home, though Isaiah leaves his backpack behind. Allison gets lost in the woods and encounters Harold Biddle's ghost who frightens her, causing her to slip down a hill and injure herself. Isaiah finds her and she stays home from school due to the trauma. The next day at school, Bratt gives Isaiah his things back so that they can start fresh. When Isaiah looks at the photos he took, he realizes that they show Allison after her fall and Margot suffering an allergy attack. Later, Margot gets candy from a machine, but Harold's ghost causes her to get a peanut bar and she suffers an allergy attack. Isaiah rescues her by using an epi-pen.
Isaiah begins to suspect that the polaroid camera is cursed somehow and tries to show the photos to James, only for them to be blank now. James instead takes a photo of Isaiah to mess with him and the photo shows Isaiah with a broken arm. He asks Margot for help, she angrily turns him down when she accuses him of thinking about himself. Isaiah destroys the camera and plays the football game, only for the camera to rematerialize in his locker. During the game, he panics and sees Harold appear on the field, surrounding it with fire and turning the players into monsters, only he and concessions store owner Nora can see.
Isaiah breaks his arm like in the photo and is hospitalized with his father telling him that it will take six to eight months to full heal. Nora pulls Ben aside and tells him that Harold is coming for their children. Back at the Biddle House, Bratt is confronted by Harold's ghost who goes inside of him and possess him.
==Cast==
* Zack Morris as Isaiah Howard
* Isa Briones as Margot Stokes
* Miles McKenna as James Etten
* Ana Yi Puig as Isabella Chen Lopez
* Will Price as Lucas Parker
* Rachael Harris as Nora Parker
* Justin Long as Nathan Bratt
===Guest===
* Rob Huebel as Colin Stokes
* Leonard Roberts as Ben Howard
* Ben Cockell as Harold Biddle
* Rhinnan Payne as Allison
===Co-starring===
* Lucia Walters as Laura Howard
* Aiden Howard as Sam
* Gardiner Millar as Coach Rifkin
* Terry O'Sullivan as Ms. Dowling
* Isaac Caverzan as Isaac
* Tyson Dorann as Tyson
* Cai Holm as High Schooler
* Gavin Langelo as Running Back
* Winson Won as Referee
* Shorya Lamba as Rando Kid
==Trivia==
*The title is taken from the fourth Goosebumps book of the same name.
**In the original tale, the main character was a boy named Greg Banks who, along with his friends Shari, Doug, and Michael, find a camera in an old haunted house where a man named Spidey lives. Greg quickly learns that whenever someone gets their picture taken by the camera, the photo developed is that of something bad that is about to happen to them. Greg and Shari discover that Spidey was a greedy scientist named Dr. Fritz Fredericks whose partner cursed the camera. He attempts to imprison the kids, but they take his picture, causing him to die of a heart attack. Greg and Shari hide the camera, but two more kids find it later.
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