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With a love of cinema woven into its DNA, The Monster Squad helped indoctrinate ’80s kids to the classic monsters. The generation that grew up watching it on home video and HBO look back on the 1987 film with the same reverence director Fred Dekker had for the Universal monster movies, and now they’re passing it down in a similar fashion. There’s no better way to introduce the next generation than with the new 4K edition.

Conceived as “The Little Rascals meets the Universal Monsters,” the cleverly-plotted film clocks in at a tight 82 minutes. The punchy script by Dekker and Shane Black doesn’t have an ounce of fat on it, save for the casual homophobia, misogyny, and body shaming of the time. Drawing inspiration from Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, human characters offer well-placed levity and a bevy of memorable one-liners, but the monsters are played straight.

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The Monster Squad, a 1987 horror comedy, is being released as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time. The film's special effects were done by Stan Winston Studios, known for their work on Terminator and Jurassic Park. Initially a box office failure, The Monster Squad has since become a cult classic, with this new release including bonus features like documentaries and deleted scenes.

The Monster Squad is about to be released as a 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray for the first time. The 1987 horror comedy from director Frank Dekker (Night of the Creeps), who also wrote the script alongside Shane Black (The Predator), answered the question of who you called when you had monsters in your neighborhood, not ghosts. Ghosts are a type of monster, of course, but you'd probably have to be annoyingly pedantic to point that out.

The film follows the eponymous heroes, a group of kids consisting...

Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad will rise again with a brand new 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray release from Kino Lorber, Bloody Disgusting has just learned this afternoon.

Kino Lorber upgrades The Monster Squad to 4K Uhd on November 28, 2023!

Check out the full Special Features lineup in the tweet below, which includes the feature documentary Wolfman’s Got Nards, audio commentaries, interviews, and more.

You know who to call when you have ghosts, but who do you call about monsters? The Monster Squad—a group of young kids devoted to protecting their suburban neighborhood from strange things that go bump in the night. They ain’t afraid of no ghouls!

Count Dracula (Duncan Regehr) escapes Van Helsing (Jack Gwillim) and adjourns to modern-day Earth in search of an ancient amulet that will grant him final control over the delicate balance between good and evil in the world. To help him, the...

The Monster Squad was a box office bomb when it originally hit theaters in 1987, making around $4 million at the box office. Critics bashed the movie and it seemed like its fate had been sealed right then and there. However, over the years, kids started to discover the movie at the video store and then later on VHS tapes ripped from HBO that started to get traded around. As the years went on, Monster Squad developed a hardcore cult following, which is now the subject of the new documentary entitled Wolfman's Got Nards.

For those who know, Wolfman's Got Nards is one of the most quotable lines from 1980s cinema. The line was delivered by Horace, who was played by the late Brent Chalem, after he makes Carl Thibault's Wolfman fall over in pain by kicking him in the groin. Monster Squad uses the classic Universal horror films lineup of villains including Count Dracula,...

Undoubtedly, one of the most beloved genre movies to come out of 1987 was Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad, a perfect blend of humor, heart, and affection for the classic monsters so many of us grew up on. And while it may not have done great business at the box office when it was released in August of that year, The Monster Squad has deservedly become a true cult classic, and remains a brilliant gateway horror experience for younger viewers who are just becoming initiated in the ways of genre cinema.

With The Monster Squad’s 30th anniversary nearly upon us, and with our “Class of 1987” celebration currently in full swing, I thought this would make for a splendid opportunity to chat with the actors who put the “Monster” in “The Monster Squad” in the first place: Tom Noonan (“Frankenstein’s Monster”), Duncan Regehr (“Count Dracula”), Tom Woodruff Jr. (“the...

Burbank will once again be filled with award-winning F/X artists, horror celebs and legions of adoring fans as Monsterpalooza will be held at the Marriott Burbank Convention Center on April 12-14. Read on for the details available thus far.

Monsterpalooza is scheduling some incredible F/X artists, special presentations and a monster museum. Artists scheduled to appear are: Michael Westmore (Academy Award Winning F/X Artist: "The Munsters," Rocky, Raging Bull, Mask, "Star Trek"), Chiodo Brothers (Killer Klowns from Outer Space, Critters), Mike Hill (sculptor and painter), Kazuhiro Tsuji (Hellboy, Planet of the Apes, The Ring 2, Looper), Jordu Schell (creature designer and sculptor Avatar, Galaxy Quest, 300, Hellboy, The Thing (2011)), and many more.

And check out this list of special celebrity guests from the genre and beyond: Ace Frehley (former lead guitarist of Kiss), Lita Ford (The Runaways), The Monster Squad! (Duncan Regehr (Dracula), Tom Woodruff (The Creature), Michael Reid Mackay...