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 ...

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!" ...