The Monster Squad (1987)

YOU KNOW WHO TO CALL WHEN YOU HAVE GHOSTS. BUT WHO DO YOU CALL WHEN YOU HAVE MONSTERS?The 1980s saw a spate of movies in which precocious kids encounter aliens, foil bank robbers, or hunt for pirate treasure. When the writer of Lethal Weapon and the director of Night of the Creeps got together to make their own, they skewed a little darker.One hundred years ago, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing and a small band of freedom fighters stormed Count Dracula's castle with a plan to rid the world of evil forever. They blew it. A hundred years later, Dracula is back, with a werewolf, a mummy, a gill-man and even Frankenstein's creature all in tow. Now, a group of horror-loving kids are about to discover that all the comics, books and movies they adore were more than just escapism, or the trash that parents and teachers dismiss them as: they were training.An all-out monster mash that wears its love of classic creature features on its sleeve even as it kicks the creakier tropes and conventions squarely in the nards, The Monster Squad is a full-blown blend of action, comedy and horror that will capture the hearts of every monster-kid who sees it!