Horror comedy film The Monster Squad first hit the big screen in 1987, and it remains, to this day, an iconic film as it features the classic Universal Monsters, all led by Count Dracula. Directed by Fred Dekker, this film sits at an affirmative 7.1 rating on IMDb and tells the story of a group of kids who team up to save the world from monsters while the latter try to get their hands on a magical amulet. The monsters are Dracula, the Mummy, the Gill Man and Frankenstein’s creation.
What the filmmaker is planning
Director Dekker has teased fans with the possibility of a sequel series based on The Monster Squad. In conversation with The Thing with Two Heads, he said that he, and Monster Squad co-writer Shane Black may develop a series where these monsters still exist, but if it cannot be perfected, the idea cannot be taken further. If this is taken up, he is thinking of incorporating monsters from the 50s and including the Invisible Man and the two melting face mutants Trantula and Metaluna. This could be an interesting development and perhaps even the start of a new franchise set in older roots. Dekker and Black worked together on writing the original film.
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The cast of the original Monster Squad
The Monster Squad stars Andre Gower (Wolfman’s got Nards, 2018), Ryan Lambert (Freeze Frame, 1992), Ashley Bank (A Smoky Mountain Christmas, 1986), Tom Noonan (Last Action Hero, 1993), Brent Chalem (Dance til’ Dawn, 1988), Duncan Regehr (The Last Days of Pompeii, 1984), Michael Faustino (Blank Check, 1994), Stephen Macht (Graveyard Shift, 1990), Jason Hervey (Back to the Future, 1985), Leonardo Cimino (Dune, 1984), Jon Gries (Real Genius, 1985), Mary Ellen Trainor (Romancing the Stone, 1984) and Stan Shaw (Fried Green Tomatoes, 1991).
