Where Does Goosebumps Go Wrong?

Goosebumps is a great script turned into an okay movie as a result of terrible direction. Its hard to be scary in a kids movie without being too scary and jump scares are just not the way to do it. I HATE JUMP SCARES. They're lazy, they're cheep and they don't scare me. They are a stupid way to freak us out for an instant but don't carry past the second they happen. Truly scary things that stick with me after the credits role are disturbing imagery and themes like the imagery of Bagool in Sinister or the themes portrayed between Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike in Gone Girl. I understand that these things are beyond a kids movie so therefore I was hoping goosebumps would go for more of a comedy approach, sadly it fails epically with that as well. Many of the jokes are channel through the goofy best friend Champ who comes across mostly unnecessary and annoying rather then central to the plot. These are things I all blame on the director Rob Letterman who as it seems cant tell what makes a scene scary or what makes something funny. Are there scares in goosebumps? Yes a few. Are there funny moment? Well I'de be lying if I said I had a stright face through all of it. However it wasn't nearly scary of as funny as I wanted to be and the fact that it could have been there had the direction been more servicable is the greatest sin of all. Goosebumps is a 2/5 for me, I liked it but man it has issues.