The Monster Squad

The Monster Squad is a 1987 horror comedy film written by Shane Black and Fred Dekker and directed by Dekker who also wrote and directed Night of the Creeps Peter Hyams was one of the executive producers. It was released by TriStar Pictures on August 14, 1987. The film features the Universal Monsters reimagined by a team of special effects artists including Stan Winston, led by Count Dracula. They, in turn, combat a group of savvy kids out to keep them from controlling the world.

The diary describes, in great detail, an amulet that is composed of concentrated good. One day out of every century, as the forces of good and evil reach a balance, the otherwise indestructible amulet becomes vulnerable to destruction. With the next day of balance happening within a few days, at the stroke of midnight, the kids realize they must gain possession of the amulet and use it with an incantation from Van Helsings diary to open a hole in the universe and cast the monsters into Limbo. As shown in the prelude, Van Helsing had unsuccessfully attempted this one hundred years ago in order to defeat his old adversary Count Dracula Duncan Regehr his apprentices then emigrated to the United States to hide the amulet, where it was out of Draculas immediate reach.Nevertheless, Dracula seeks to obtain the amulet before the Monster Squad does, so that the Count can take control of the world and plunge it into darkness. To this end, he assembles several of his most dangerous and monstrous allies The Mummy Michael MacKay, The Gillman Tom Woodruff Jr., The Wolf Man Carl Thibault, and in addition, three school girls Mary Albee, JoanCarrol Baron, and Julie Merrill whom the Count transforms into his vampiric consorts. Dracula then steals a crate from an old World War II bomber in flight, containing The Frankenstein Monster Tom Noonan, thus completing his army. However, Frankenstein is reluctant to aid Dracula, and wanders into the forest where he encounters Phoebe. Rather than being afraid, she shows him the kindness he has always sought, and they become friends. After Phoebe proves to the Monster Squad that the Frankenstein Monster is not evil, he chooses to help the boys instead of Dracula. ........

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