"My favourite movie of all-time is 'The Shining'. There's just something great about being scared. I don't know the scientific reasons for it but there's an exhilaration, an exploration of what it is to be alive. It's very heavy, it's very deep being scared and I see it in my kids," Black said at a media event in Cancun, Mexico.
The actor accepted "Goosebumps" because while his children -- at the age of 9 and 7 -- were too young to watch "The Shining", they would enjoy the horror-comedy, which introduces some of the most famous monsters from Stine's stories.
"I wouldn't let them watch 'The Shining', I don't want them to grow up that fast, but that's why I wanted to make this one because it's scary, but it's not too scary."
Black, 46, will play a fictional version of Stine, a reclusive author, who has to keep his books hidden because once they are opened, they unleash real versions of his literary monsters.
"... The character, R L Stine, I just sort of heard his voice as soon as I read the script before I'd ever met him or heard his actual voice, so when I met him and I heard his actual voice I said, 'I'm sorry, but I'm not going to be doing you. I already heard your voice when I read the script'. The script is a lot different than the real R L Stine," he said.