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If there were ever such a thing as #DadGoals, is setting the bar high.

The father to sons Samuel, 9, and Thomas, 7, and star of R.L. Stine‘s fantasy thriller Goosebumps, told PEOPLE at a fan screening on Monday he showed the film at his boys’ school to raise their street cred.

“I asked Sony Pictures if I could have a screening of it at my boys’ school so that me and the boys could go present to their friends. They could be the big shots bringing a big Hollywood movie to school, ” he says. “My boys flipped and all the kids at the school flipped out.”

But the spooky, fun film wasn’t for everyone, Black, 46, admits.

“Some kindergarteners were a little scared and left early so I don’t really recommend it for 6 and under, ” he explains. “Unless they’re unusually brave. But 7 and older is good, especially if they’re really into monsters.”

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Black says his own kids loved the movie — so much that they wanted to do something special for their dad’s Hollywood premiere.

“My boys got obsessed with Slappy the ventriloquist dummy in the movie — and probably the scariest creature in the film. I took them to the Hollywood premiere and Sammy wanted to take a ventriloquist dummy with him on the red carpet, ” he shares.

“[Thomas] wanted to be Slappy and he got dressed up, and I said, ‘Can’t you guys consolidate this thing? Can’t you guys control your little brother?’ And they insisted, ‘No we have to be separate Slappy performances.’ ”

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