TAGLINE: You know who to call when you have ghosts. But who do you call when you have monsters?
GENRE: Supernatural/ Adventure/ Childrens
STARRING: Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Ryan Lambert, Brent Chalem, Michael Faustino, Ashley Bank, Duncan Regehr, Stephen Macht, Mary Ellen Trainor, Stan Shaw, Lisa Fuller, Leonardo Cimino, Jason Hervey, Jon Gries and Tom Noonan as Frankenstein.
MUSIC: Bruce Broughton
SPECIAL EFFECTS: Richard Edlund and Stan Winston
WRITERS: Shane Black and Fred Dekker
PRODUCERS: Keith Barish and Rob Cohen
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Peter Hyams
DIRECTOR: Fred Dekker
RATING: PG-13
SYNOPSIS: Every 100 years, at the stroke of midnight, the forces of evil arise to challenge the forces of good. This is the year, tonight is the night. Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, Gill Man and Frankenstein have come in search of a mystical amulet that will turn the tide of battle their gruesome way and plunge the world into eternal darkness...and the human race's only hope...is a bunch of kids? The Monster Squad, a team of adventurous adolescent creature-crushers step forward to put an end to Dracula's onslaught of evil...and at midnight...they won't seem like kids anymore.
Rating: **** out of *****
So...who's your favorite Monster Squad club member?
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Rudy was my fave cause I loved Ryan Lambert back in the day! I also liked Sean.
Posted by james Andrews (Member # 1425) on :
My favourite character might be Rudy too, although I like all of them including 'Scary German Guy' if he counts. One thing I noticed and I might be over thinking but, at the end of the guys meeting with Scary German Guy, one of them says to him :" You sure know a lot about monsters!" and he replies "Now you come to mention it, I suppose I do" do you think he was referring to Hitler? I say this because he had a tatoo on his hand, a number, which I think people were marked with if they were to be executed. If it is I'm sure glad they didn't get him. I like Sean's father as well, a cool guyalthough I think the film borrows a little bit too much from E.T. and The Goonies, but I still think it's cool in it's own right. I wish I was still in gang like theirs (I'm a bit too old though). I haven't seen much of the kids since but at least they were all in something very special. Who else thought it was cool that Sean and his dad would watch films at the back of their house over looking a drive-in movie theatre? We don't have those in England. Posted by DEE1980 (Member # 5766) on :
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Posted by james Andrews (Member # 1425) on :
I live in England, and recently Monster Squad was on Five. At the end before Sean says "We're the Monster Squad!" there was a montage accompanied by the song 'Rock Until You Drop'. It was pretty cool as the video versionI have doesn't contain this. Sometimes it's worthwhile recording a movie when it gets shown on tv just to see if there's anything extra. A Nightmare On Elm Street 3 is a god example, as usually at the beginning they have a pop song (although I'm not sure of the name)during the first scene or Dokken's 'Into The Fire'.
