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The Monster Squad is a 1987 American horror comedy film directed by Fred Dekker, and written by Dekker and Shane Black. Peter Hyams and Rob Cohen served as executive producers. It was released by Tri-Star Pictures August, 1987. The film features pastiches of the Universal Monsters, led by Count Dracula. They are confronted by a group of savvy children out to keep them from controlling the world.

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!

2-DISC 4K ULTRA HD BLU-RAY LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Francesco Francavilla
Collectors’ booklet featuring new writing on the film by critics Sean Abley, Priscilla Page, Justin LaLiberty and Johnny Mains

DISC 1 - FEATURE & EXTRAS (4K ULTRA HD)
4K (2160p) Ultra HD Blu-ray presentation in Dolby Vision (HDR10 compatible)
Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Audio commentary with writer/director Fred Dekker and “Squad Members” Andre Gower, Ryan Lambert and Ashley Bank
Audio commentary with writer/director Fred Dekker and director of photography Bradford May
Monster Squad Forever, a feature-length 2007 documentary on the making of the film
Archive featurette with the SFX team, featuring interviews with John Rosengrant, Steve Wang, Alec Gillis, Shane Mahan, Lindsay MacGowan and Tom Woodruff Jr.
Archive interview with composer Bruce Broughton
A Conversation with Frankenstein, a vintage 1986 featurette
Deleted scenes
Animated Storyboard sequence
Trailers and TV spot
Image galleries

DISC 2 - WOLFMAN'S GOT NARDS (LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE BLU-RAY)
High Definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation of Wolfman’s Got Nards, a 2018 feature-length documentary co-written and directed by The Monster Squad star Andre Gower
Original lossless stereo and DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround audio
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
In the Goddamn Club, More with Fans of The Monster Squad
Blood Bath music video
Deleted scenes
Extended interviews with Fred Dekker, Shane Black, Adam Goldberg and Seth Green
Archive interview with Andre Gower & Henry Darrow McComas
Podcast audio interviews with actors Ashley Bank, Tom Noonan, Carl Thibault and Michael Reid MacKay
Trailer