The Monster Squad (1987) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

The time has come for a new episode of our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series (now being released on the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel under the “Revisited” banner), and in this episode we’re taking a look back at director Fred Dekker’s 1987 film The Monster Squad (watch it HERE)! Those of you who have been genre fans for a while may be thinking “Everybody has seen The Monster Squad!”, but you might be surprised how many people aren’t aware of this movie, and we have to let them know about it. Check out our recommendation of The Monster Squad in the embed above.

Scripted by Dekker and Shane Black, inspired by the classic Universal Monsters movies (plus Abbott & Costello and The Little Rascals), The Monster Squad has the following synopsis:

A group of youngsters find themselves up against the combined might of Dracula, the Mummy, the Gill Man and Frankenstein’s Monster, who arrive in town in search of a magic amulet.

Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Ryan Lambert, Ashley Bank, Michael Faustino, Brent Chalem, Stephen Macht, Leonardo Cimino, Duncan Regehr, Tom Noonan, Jonathan Gries, Mary Ellen Trainor, Lisa Fuller, and Stan Shaw star.

Our Best Horror Movie You Never Saw series is

dedicated to highlighting horror films that, for one reason or another, don’t get as much love as we think they should. We know plenty of you horror hounds out there will have seen many of the movies we pick, but there will be plenty of you who have not.

This episode was Written by Cody Hamman, Narrated by Shawn Knippleberg, Edited by Lance Vlcek, Produced by John Fallon and Lance Vlcek, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

Some previous episodes of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw series can be seen below. To see more, and to check out some of our other shows, head over to the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel – and subscribe while you’re there!