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, Alyvia Alyn Lind, Finn Carr. Summer Fontana, and Shuya Sophia 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 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 creepy neighbor who hates trespassers to go near his house that their not supposed to go in, when they sneak 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 Sally 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 Sally 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 Sally gets scared and say's no, and Neil gets furious and yells at her to leave and Sally runs and Neil take's her bike as well. 
The next scene starts of with a teach named Mrs. Joy (Bryce Dallas Howard) teaching a class of students in the middle and the start of fall break and a young 10 year old kid named Ben (Brandon Jamar) who is making a paper airplane and shoots and Ms. Joy and doesn't suspect a thing until when she turns around and looks at Ben and just has his history book at his face and she turns back around, Max (Finn Carr) looks at him smiling and giving a thumbs up while Lucy (Summer Fontana) gives a eye roll of embarrassment, the bell rings and with everyone cheering and jumping put of their seats and out of class except for Ben who gets called by Ms. Joy who calls him by his full name 'Benjamin' and askes him about the airplane he threw. 
Everyone than starts to leave the Norwood Elementary school for fall break and for Halloween, then tries to "play hero" and stop the bully of the school Ricky Butch (Nathan Blaiwes) and his gang of six graders from picking on a kid named Owen, but this backfires and the bullies take a jump rope and tie them on a lamp post. Owen than blames Ben like everyone does but Lucy and Max come to their aid and untie them but Owen as he is just runs of and doesn't even bother with a thank you. 
Ben starts saying goodbye to his friends and starts packing up his stuff and his bike and a girl named Alice (Alyvia Ayln Lind) spooks him from behind and says he was just getting his bike home and Alice starts picking up his headphones and starts giggling about listening to a boy band song, and Ben gets embarrassed saying he doesn't like them or anything and Alice say's okay and starts introducing herself and so does Ben and says that calls him the creepy kid cause of his obsession for monsters and supernatural stuff and Alice say's there are worse thing to be called, and sees his Monster Community Autograph Book and Alice see's he doesn't have any kid members who have signed and she got to be the first one to write her fist signature in his book starts leaving with a cute quote "See ya later Creepy Kid, good luck with your friends, and Ben says "who?" Wait Wait no no no! their not my...
Ben than goes home with his mom who has his spring break surprise cupcakes for the spring and meets up his grandfather Harold who eat dinner than he gets a question about Mr. Shivers and Priya tells him its best to stay away from his yard cause he claims it as a restricted area, but Harold says to him to not believe the super stictions that his mother tells with Priya getting a little protective of his sons needs. Ben then gets the job to clean up the old antiques of junk in their garage but runs into Sally playing hopscotch on the sidewalk next to his house and says to never trust anyone you see and never be to late to run with Ben getting a little nervous and Sally just goes back to playing, Ben than meets up with Max stopping by his house and decides to play with the basketball from Ben's garage and says to Max that he has nothing really planed for trick or treating this year than Max's mom Julie stops by in her car for work and says to Max to not go near the lake's cause she fears their toxic and dangerous, Max than gets annoyed saying he won't than Julie says to always wear a helmet if your going to the park than gives a little goodbye kiss saying she loves him than drives off with Ben chuckling a little bit with Max saying "Oh stop it!". 
That night, Ben takes out the garbage, then Alice appears at the fence, which scares Ben at first, Alice then invites him to come with her after Ben asks her if there's anything fun she likes to do. They go to an abandoned amusement park, which Alice says it was built a long time ago but ran out of money and now just sits in the woods and climbs to the top of the Ferris wheel. They talk to each other for a while, and Ben is happy that he found a close friend that he can relate to, and he may like Alice more than a friend. They walk back to town with the both of them going home with Ben saying to Alice that has she ever been to a party with Alice saying no than Ben inviting her to hang out with him and his friends tomorrow with Alice agreeing and says goodbye with Ben smiling a bit.
It than cuts to a park in Norwood where everyone is gathered for an park party fest and Ben, Max and Lucy are sitting at the park table discussing on how to retrieve the missing things that Mr. Shivers stole from the kids in Norwood and Alice gets some Picnic food from the party and see's Ben and his friends and Ben invites her and introduces her to his friends and Lucy gives a big hug for a new friend and Alice has a sneaky idea for how to get in the house with out getting caught but need a strategy, than Max comes in with a idea to go to an "expert". Later Ben, Max, and Alice seek advice from Calvin Ford (Ryan Lee) who is claimed to be an expert on the supernatural, who tells the story or rumor of Mr. Shivers who once lived in a harsh environment than haunts the people in Norwood to than get revenge on the people who wronged him and uses the belongings for his own secret plan to destroy Norwood, and says that the way to get inside a creepy psychopaths house is to use invasive maneuver on Shivers and and go for it, or to just sneak in while he goes out.
Later night, when Priya leaves to chaperone the high school Spring dance, she asks her father Harold to watch over Ben while being out, Later, Ben calls his friend Lucy who is on her after calling Alice, Max and and tells him to meet them near Shivers house. He tells Harold not to go in his room because he has a test to study for in order to cover-up his real plan to sneak into Shivers' house. Ben meets up with Max and the others who bring Emma (Shuya Sophia Cai) who they meet at the party and Ben asking Lucy how she was able to get Shivers out with out knowing with her saying she calls him pretending to be the cops and asks him to come to the station for further questioning, after discussing to go in and out after they get the belonging they go into Shivers' house by picking the basement lock. Along the way Ben finds bear traps on the ground and bumps into a cuckoo clock in the basement, When they make it to the office upstairs, they decide to split up and find the stuff in different rooms. 
Ben and Max than see a bookshelf full of manuscripts, each one is titled a different book in the Brahms book series. Max grabs the one titled, "The Abominable Snowman of Pasadena", and wonders why this one, and all the others, have locks on them and questions if there is some sort of key that unlocks them. Ben finds the key near by on the desk and unlocks it to prove a point. Not knowing what awaits inside the book, Ben opens it and the real Abominable Snowman pops out of the pages, spooking Ben's other friends, Ben tries to take a picture but snowman gets spooked and it smashes through the walls of the room, leaves the house, and escape into town, knocking the other manuscripts to the ground, the one titled, Night of the Chester the Puppet is unlocked as well. 
Ben, Alice, Max, Lucy and Emma who than joins along follow the Abominable Snowman to a mall down town, where Ben tries to take a video of the snowman so that he can post it online but the but than attacks and chases them around the mall where it attacks them. Luckily, Shivers sucks it back into its book. On the way home, Lucy finally realizes that Shivers is actually Neil Steinberg, the author of Brahms. Alice comes back in, with Ben and Max, asking Stine for an explanation on what's going on. Stine explains his tormented past; he had suffered resentment and bullying from other children due to terrible allergies that kept him indoors during his childhood, causing him to create his own friends, monsters, demons, and ghouls that he imagined would terrorize all his tormentors. One day, the monsters all became real and unstable, wherein he wrote the Goosebumps series to lock them up inside their own manuscripts from where they came from and made harmless copies to sell around the world, making him a famous author. While picking up the books, Stine realizes that one is missing. Sitting in the chair is Chester (voiced by Slater) from Night of Chester the Puppet, who vows revenge for his imprisonment. He burns his manuscript, and flees the house with the others.. Chester than escapes the house holding the key and he than opens the book The Haunted Car that releases the titular car and then drives of and than releases the Lawn Goblins from A Day of the Goblin Thieves into a neighbors house where Lucy's parents in the house battles them, but the goblins come back together, everyone realizing that the they can't be destroyed, everyone than runs out of the house. 
Chester begins rampaging through Norwood with the Haunted Car and opens The Plant that Ate Everyone which destroys the cell towers. Then he opens six more books and throws them in different locations around town. The Body Squeezers from Invasion of the Body Squeezers freeze Officer Stevens, Officer Brooks, and the entire Norwood Police Department where they accompany Chester into the building. Pug the Puppy from Don't Feed the Vampire Puppy! attacks Max's mom Julie. 
While driving to the school, they get attacked by Brian Dean (also voiced by Slater), the Invisible Boy from Where's the Invisible Boy, and then The Giant Orb Spider from Attack of the Giant Tarantula. The Werewolf from The Werewolf of Fog Swamp Camp follows who chases them through the town mall. Luckily, Julie (Max's mom) hits the werewolf with her car where she's covered in puppy dog fur after escaping from Pugs. Ben tells her to get help. Julie goes to the police station to tell the cops to go to the school to help Stine and Company, where she gets frozen by the Body Squeezers after Chester finds out, having been there the whole time listening. 
Neil Steinberg, Ben, Alice, Max, Lucy, and Emma cut through a cemetery, where Ben gets caught on a statue and Alice sets him free. While having a nice pep talk, the six get chased by the Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls. They barely escape and make it to the high school. While the gang are splitting up to find the typewriter to, Stein and Ben find a room of shelfs and boxes and have fun getting along while searching with Stein having an emotional talk about his past and explains the monsters he creating was his own family that he practically raised to not feel lonely and more happier, Lucy and Galvin who soon joins them comes along to tell them that she and the others found the typewriter. Stine grabs the typewriter and tells them they have to split up to warn everybody in the school party to evacuate, he and the rest can find somewhere safe to write. 
Lucy, Emma and Galvin warns everyone at the party, and the School Staff about the monsters. At first, they don't believe him. a high school kid jokes about how monsters are taking over, everyone laughs, and then the kid says a giant praying mantis is coming and they finally do believe Galvin and the girls when the Giant Praying Mantis smashes through a window of the gym and takes the kid close to the window. Galvin tells the Whole School to calm down since he is in charge of helping protect the students and tells them that they have to barricade the doors to protect the school and not let the monsters come inside while Neil Steinberg finishes writing the new story to capture all the Monsters. Outside on the football field, Chester and the Lawn Goblins release almost every monster in the "Brahms" series including Murder the Clown, The Zombie Hand, the Bog Monster, the Scarecrow, the Mantis Creeps, the Mummy of Prince Kho-Ru, King Nilayam, Madame Doom, the Pumpkin Head, Annie the Killer Doll and many more. They all have a bonfire of the burning books and have suddenly Ricky and his sidekick friend hold hostage near the fire while Chester tells his gang of monsters that the only way they'll be free forever, is if they kill Neil Steinberg and charge an attack towards the School hang Ricky and his friend up a tree. 
The principal speaks over the intercom for all students to get to safety. In the library, Max battles the Flies from Spawn of the Wasp and the rest of the monsters get in the school with the help of the Terminator 3000s from Terror of the Terminators. In the hallway Lucy and Emma are attacked by the Werewolf of Fog Swamp Camp. But then Galvin than saves Emma and Lucy from the werewolf by biting it with his silver teeth fillings. but the Plants and the Giant Praying Mantis are still attacking the school. Hearing an Announcement, from the principal, that the monsters have Invaded the school, Ben, Alice, Max, and Neil make a break for the Gym, when they are attacked by The Plant that Ate Everyone. After beating the Plants and making it retreat back to the outside, they then get chased by more creatures and plants through the gym, and they barley escape as Max gets almost grabbed by one of the plants bet than Alice saves him in time. While trapped in the gym's exit, Ben gets an idea, when he spots a tackle dummy and the buses outside. 
Ben, Alice, Max, and Stein leave Madison High on a school bus, and the monsters then start following them, after Stine realizes that Chester and the Monsters are only after him, luring them away from the school, and now the students and staff are safe. The mantis knocks the bus over, and the Werewolf and the Abominable Snowman open the door, but discover that the bus contains instead a dummy which is triggered to a bomb causing the Monsters, but Chester and The Haunted Car, to blow up to buy Stine and the Gang time to write the story. 
On a decoy bus, Stine and the kids drive to the abandoned amusement park, and Stine tells Ben and the others to go somewhere safe until he can write because the Story has to be Fully Complete in order to work, Ben and his friends go into the woods for safety and find one of Steins famous monsters The Haunted House of Death and go inside with out knowing the house is a monster as well, the kids end up getting lost in circles and end up getting almost swallowed up, The house realizes they are inside and attacks them. the Ben and Alice find a way out by force the House to spit them out by force. Stein is in the fun house writing and finishing the book but then Chester finds Stein since the Werewolf tracked his scent, and Chester opens the book titled The Blob That Turned Into a Monster. Once the Blob came to life, it devoured the fun house, where they were hiding and Stine tells the kids to climb to the top of the Abandoned Ferris Wheel and finish the story while he distracts the Blob. The Blob swallows Stine, but he's still alive as Chester watches and begins tormenting Stine, then Chester notices that Stine doesn't have the manuscript that's going to defeat them, and sees that Ben has it, Slappy then sends the monster army after them. 
Ben, Alice, and Max having climb the Ferris Wheel, avoiding the monster army below. Ben finished the story and put the final page of it in a leather bound manuscript. The mantis chews the bolts, causing the wheel to roll down the hill and crash, luckily, they survive. As Ben, who is about to open the book, finds out that it's stuck on the construction site bars high up as the kids reach and climb to get it, the monsters than arrive to try and stop them from reaching the book, once again Max is brave enough to get the book in time and opens the book causing all of the monsters to then get sucked back to the book one by one. When the Blob gets sucked in the book, it spits Neil Steinberg out. Chester then begins to strangle Stine only for him to kick Chester into the vortex. Chester vanishes saying "See you in your dreams!". Both Ben and Alice hold on to Max real close saying they'll be okay until Neil comes in and closes the book just in time. Stein catches up to the others and looks a little dead inside with Ben apologizes for cause the damage in town and his house but Stein starts laughing out of pure joy and thanking Ben and his friends for freeing him from his lifelong nightmares from his monsters and everyone starts giving a group hug. 
Sometime later, Norwood High School is seen being repaired and the Elementary starts reopening at the end of spring break. Stine gets a new job as the new English teacher, as well as John now getting together with Rachel the teacher. Ben and Max have Stine's class for history and he gives them his first lesson about how Every story ever told, including Brahms, can be broken down into 3 very notable parts: The Beginning, The Middle, and Finally, The Twist. After class, Ben walks with Stine in the hallway. The school's new drama teacher Mr. Slater (portrayed by the REAL Neil Steinberg) exchanges greetings with Stine. Ben askes Stein about how he was able to be as creative as he is with Stein saying real imagination doesn't come from magic typewriters or even from ear worm penetration, It comes from here (with him pointing at Ben's head) Ben than see's Sally Griffin now attending his school after the monster incident and her mother want's her to gain safety and confidences just for her to make her gain connections and wants someone to show her to the cafeteria with Ben happily going with it. Ben than waves to Stine, and then he gives a tour of the school to Sally. He tells her that the High School is still being repaired because of the events that had happened previously. A few moments later, Stine grabs his suitcase and is about to leave school himself, but then he suddenly sees the typewriter typing by itself, writing "The Invisible Boy's Revenge". It turned out that Brian Dean had evaded capture as he quotes "You forgot about me!". Brian's hand print appears on the cabinet glass while Brian maniacally laughs as Stine screams in horror. 
== Cast ==
* Christian Slater as Neil Steinberg
* Christian Slater as the voices of Chester the Dummy and Brian Dean (The Invisible Boy)
* Brandon Jamar as Ben Denberg 
* Alyvia Alyn Lind 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)
* Nathan Blaiwes as Ricky Butch (School Bully)
* Mouzam Makkar as Priya Denberg (Ben's Mom)
* Brian Stepanek as Mr. Broadman 
* Ellie Kemper as Mrs. Broadman
* Ryan Lee as Galvin Ford (arcade kid)
* Katherine Langford as Dorothy James
* Mia Allen as Sally Griffin
* Izaac Wang as Owen Wu
== 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 back in 2003, was chosen to produce the film along side Andrew Adamson, 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.
=== Casting ===
Christian Slater was cast as Neil Steinberg in September 2014. Slater met with Stine and the two discussed how the fictional version of the author was going to be portrayed by the actor, Slater said he was going to play a sinister version of Stine. Brandon Jamar and Alyvia Alyn Lind were cast in June 2015, and the rest in September 2015. After that, it was announced that the film would hit theaters on August 7, 2016. The cast attended Comic Con three times, in July 2015, and in June and September 2015. in November 2014, the release date was switched to April 15, 2017, and in January 2016, it was switched to back to October 10, 2016.
== Comic Con ==
The film was promoted at the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con International where Christian Slater and Sam Raimi interacted with Chester the Dummy. Chester even brought some of his "friends" out consisting of the Bog Monster from There's a Monster Downstairs, two Graveyard Ghouls from Attack of the Graveyard Ghouls, Cronby the Troll and a Mulgani from Deep in the Jungle of Doom, the Lord High Executioner from A Night in Terror Tower, Murder the Clown from A Nightmare on Clown Street, the Mummy of Prince Khor-Ru from Return of the Mummy, Professor Shock for The Boy Who Cried Scientist, Dr. Nafario from The Creepy Creations of Dr. Nafario, Count Nightwing from Dracula's Slumber, a Body Squeezer from Invasion of the Body Squeezers, Sindy James Vudu form from I Knitted My Best Friend, a Scarecrow from The Scarecrow Walks the Night, and a Pumpkin Head from The Jack-O'-Lanterns Walk at Midnight. When Christian Slater tells Chester that it is him that Chester wants, Chester instructs the Lord High Executioner, Murder the Clown, and Professor Shock to take Christian Slater outside to his car. As the monsters leave, Chester tells Sam some of his pitches causing Sam to leave as well.
File:Christian Slater & Sam Raimi at Comic Con.jpg|Christian Slater and director Sam Raimi collaborate at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con.
== 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 Brahms Halloween book Parade in 1996.
* 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. 
The soundtrack for the film, featuring original music composed by Danny Elfman, was released on CD on October 23, 2016, by Warner Bros Classical Records. The digital version was released by Madison Gate Records the week before. 
Brahms (2016) Official Soundtrack
No.	Title 	Length	Composer
1. 	Brahms 	2:11 	Danny Elfman
2. 	Ferris Wheel 	4:45 	Danny Elfman
3. 	To the Rescue 	1:17 	Danny Elfman
4. 	Snowman on the Loose 	4:02 	Danny Elfman
5. 	In the Supermarket 	1:12 	Danny Elfman
6. 	Chester 	1:45 	Danny Elfman
7. 	Havok in Norwood 	2:06 	Danny Elfman
8. 	Floating Puppy/It's Play Time 	1:10 	Danny Elfman
9. 	Lawn Goblins 	1:44 	Danny Elfman
10.	A Hairy Night/Attack of the Ghouls	2:53 	Danny Elfman
11.	They're Here 	2:30 	Danny Elfman
12.	My Gelatinous Friend 	1:30 	Danny Elfman
13.	House of Death 	3:33 	Danny Elfman
14.	Farewell 	5:29 	Danny Elfman
15.	The Twist 	0:26 	Danny Elfman
16.	Credits 	2:15 	Danny Elfman
== Gallery ==
File:Yvonne2C Nila - Still.webp|Brahms (2016) Monsters
File:Brahms 2016 Main Trailer.jpg|Brahms (2016) Trailer
File:Chester the Dummy.jpg|Chester the Dummy
== Reception & Releases ==
=== Box Office ===
Goosebumps grossed $80.1 million in North America and $70.1 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $150.2 million, against a budget of $58 million.
In the United States and Canada, pre-release tracking's indicated the film would open to between $20–31 million at 3,501 theaters. However, Warner Bros. was more conservative, and projected the film to take between $12–15 million. The film opened on October 16, 2016, alongside Vampsquad (2016), however box office pundits noted that it did not face serious competition except for , which was entering its third week. It made $600,000 from its early Thursday night screenings at 2,567 theaters, and $7.4 million on its opening day. In its opening weekend the film grossed $23.5 million, beating studio projections and finishing first at the box office. It marked the fourth Warner Bros film to reign at the top of the box office during the fall.
=== Holiday Shopping Spree ===
The film gained a world wide selections of stores and markets to sell out merchandise and Christmas and Halloween events to advertise the film publicly and to start the new years for the holidays. It was also when Brahms was released on Blu-ray (2D and 3D) and DVD on January 5, 2017.
File:Brahms (2016) Christmas Shopping Ad.jpg|Brahms (2016) Extra Large Christmas Shopping Poster
=== Premiere ===
Brahms had its world premiere screening on June 24, 2016, at the CineEurope film distributors' trade fair in Barcelona, Spain, where the film was presented by Slater on stage. The film also aired on Cartoon Network a couple of times due to Warner Bros owning it and to bring in fans of the 2003 series that aired on their network. 
File:Brahms (2016) Credits on Cartoon Network.jpg|Brahms (2016) Credits on Cartoon Network
=== Home Media ===
Brahms was released on Blu-ray (2D and 3D) and DVD on January 5, 2017, and includes deleted scenes, a blooper reel, interviews with the cast and crew, an alternate opening, an alternate ending, and a featurette about Chester and the Goblins.
=== Celebrity Shout Out ===
At the premiere in June 24, 2016, a bunch of iconic celebrity's and well known actors came out to give a little advertising speech to get people to know about the success for the Brahms film and VampSquad (2016) and get people hyped up for the Halloween season.
Actors for the Celebrity Shout Out. 
* Matt Damon
* Anna Kendrick
* Kevin Hart
* Keegan Michael-Key
* Tony Hale
* Kate McKinnon 
* Aubrey Plaza
* Kate Winslet
== Future & Sequels ==
Main Article: Brahms 2 (2018)
Development of a sequel was reported in September 2016. Sam Raimi is set to return to direct. Brandon Jamar and Alyvia Alyn Lind are to return for the sequel to play the two main leads Ben and Alice. And Christian Slater is set to reprise his role as Neil Steinberg with Ever Anderson added to the cast. Brahms 2 was released in the United States on November 12, 2018.