I don’t like being scared all that much. I enjoy watching videos of Halloween events such as Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights. Why am I bringing this up in a blog about Barbie? Because that is what this episode has to do with. It’s all about facing your fears.
The Plot
The plot is again rather simple and is something, we have seen many times before in kids media. Barbie and her friends want to turn the Dreamhouse into a haunted house. Well, her annoying neighbors, the Reardons basically act as annoying HOA. They are told to take all of their Halloween decorations out of the front yard. And then they try having a fog machine but that is shut down in their backyard.
So Barbie and her friends move the haunts inside the Dreamhouse. Everything seems fine, meanwhile the younger Roberts sisters are watching monster movies. Though that might’ve been a mistake youngest Chelsea sees a hologram of a bat where Barbie is standing. Didn’t help they were watching a vampire movie.
Barbie’s friends, Teresa explains the reality of everything but even after everything, it’s hard to convince a six year old that her eldest sister isn’t a vampire. So middle child, Stacie takes Chelsea to prove she isn’t.
Yeah, this kinda backfires after we see Barbie look in a smart mirror and doesn’t see a reflection. Yeah, Barbie and her friends have set up the haunted house based on things they’re afraid of. For example, Barbie is afraid of spiders and Ken is afraid of clowns so he dresses up as one. Much braver than I am as I freaking hate clowns.
Now, this is where things get interesting as the Dreamhouse in this iteration of Barbie is a smart house. So, the two youngest Roberts girls reset the house to trap Barbie and her friends inside the Dreamhouse thinking they are vampires. So, we have two girls who think their big sister and her friends are vampires because of a misunderstanding and these teenagers are trapped inside the Dreamhouse which they’ve set up as a haunted house based on their fears. So, yeah we have a fun set up as Stacie and Chelsea alongside annoying neighbor, Trey try to stop Barbie and her friends because believe they’ve been turned into vampires.
Meanwhile, the teens go through the haunted house they set up and yeah, it doesn’t matter that they set it up themselves. It is based on their fears, so it is still scary to them. It’s a gauntlet of fear as the teens make it through the haunted house to find a second panel to shut off the Dreamhouse. It is inside Barbie’s closet and we see more fears being faced as Nikki is afraid of enclosed spaces and Teresa is afraid of the dark. The panel is found underneath a clown mask in a hatbox. Why did it have to be clowns?
Meanwhile, we see Stacie and Chelsea are ready to save their sister from being a vampire with some giant sunlights that Trey set up outside the Dreamhouse. Once Barbie finds out what happened, she’s actually proud of her sisters. Oh and fave character, Skipper slept through tall of this. I love Skipper and that fits her. On Halloween night, we see the haunted house was a success.
My Final Thoughts
Sorry, that was this was more of a recap than a review but it worked better this way. I think this is a cute episode that was fun to watch again and something I always enjoy around this time of year
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