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The Monster Squad Details

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  • Rated:
  • 70
  • from 384 members

Dracula is alive. In fact, he plans to rule the world and that is why he seeks the help of other legendary monsters. However, a bunch of kids regarded by their peers as losers uncover the devious plan and prepare for a counter strike. Read more

Starring Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Andre Gower/ Robby Kiger
Director Fred Dekker
Genres Comedy, Horror

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The Monster Squad

Dracula is alive. In fact, he plans to rule the world and that is why he seeks the help of other legendary monsters. However, a bunch of kids regarded by their peers as losers uncover the devious plan and prepare for a counter strike.

Starring Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Andre Gower/ Robby Kiger
Director Fred Dekker
Run time DVD: 1 hr 18 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate 15.gif
Genres Comedy, Horror
Language English
Released DVD: unknown
Production year: 1987
Format DVD
  • Critics' reviews (2) of The Monster Squad

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  • More of a clever comic parody than a jokey pastiche, this lively kiddies' horror pic delivers frights and laughs which... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
  • 1 stars out of 4

    Mildly amusing spoof for the teenage audience.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
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  • 14 out of 14 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Superb funny film, very enjoyable

    Monster Squad is one of those films, that despite its numerous shortcomings, you easily enjoy and will watch again and again. It is a throwback of sorts to the fifties and sixties when magazines like Famous Monsters was coming out and television stations had weekend fright shows. It is a story about a group of 80's adolescents fighting the evil horror of Dracula, the Mummy, the Creature, and the Frankenstein Monster in a race to save Earth from permanent evil and dark forces. Yeah, I know it sounds crazy...and it is in many ways. The film, however, creates a nostalgic feeling for many people that grew up loving monster pictures. The make-up is outstanding, the acting competent, the sets believable. My favourite part of all though, is when the boys finally meet the old German man and befriend him. One of the boys says to him that he knows a lot about monsters, and when the door closes the old man looks at the concentration camp id branded into his arm and says, 'yes I do.' That line sums up the reality that exists between fictional, harmless horror and the reality of the real monsters that live or have lived in our society. All said, this is a truely fun film, not the best film ever made but in the same sense of the goonies an excellent teen comedy horror flick, well worth a look, 4 out of 5 definately!!

      • Gareth Williams from Wrexham, North Wales
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  • 10 out of 11 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Diet Goonies

    DUDE! When i was kid i loved this film so much i actually threw up! I even wrote to 'Jim'll Fix it' to arrange for me to meet the cast. He didnt fix it for me :(

    Saw this film again recently and although this feels like slapping my own Grandmother - it hasnt weathered well. I have to compare it to Goonies and whereas that film is still a great today, Monster Squad suffers for maybe throwing itself too much into the 80's.

    If you saw this film as a kid then your in for a good dose of nostalgia 'Wolfmans got balls?', but there's not much to it!

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    • The Monster Squad
      Dracula is alive. In fact, he plans to rule the world and that is why he seeks the help of other legendary monsters. However, a bunch of kids regarded by their peers as losers uncover the devious plan and prepare for a counter strike....