Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. In 1987, The Monster Squad felt like it had all the ingredients to be a massive hit. Instead, it turned out to be one of those ...

Thirty years ago, in 1987, Fred Dekker's "The Monster Squad" was unleashed in theaters nationwide, coming just two years after the similar "young kids discover mysterious artifact" romp "The Goonies.

That'd be "The Monster Squad," released 30 years ago this week, on August 14, 1987. The movie pitted Dracula, the Mummy, the Wolfman, and the Creature from the Black Lagoon against Frankenstein's ...

Squad's gleeful monster mash anticipates bloated CGI orgies like Van Helsing, which likely cost a hundred times as much, yet boasts a hundredth of Squad's scrappy, ramshackle charm. At a lean 82 ...

a film about the huge cult success of the 1987 monster movie The Monster Squad. The title is an obvious reference to one of the film's iconic lines, where Horace yells out "Wolfman's got nards!" ...

As if you hadn’t heard enough about The Monster Squad DVD release (and trust me, you haven’t), our Comic Con crew got the ears of pretty much everyone who had anything to do with the original ...