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The Lost Boys
Why this pick
Matches The Monster Squad’s kid-versus-monster exuberance with a sharper teen edge, a memorable creature ensemble, pulpy scares, and the same affection for horror-movie iconography.
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MOVIE1987 1h 22m USA
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Why this pick
Its suburban kids face an escalating supernatural invasion with resourcefulness and panic, delivering the youthful adventure, tangible creature effects, and darkly playful 1980s horror energy of The Monster Squad.
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The Goonies
Why this pick
Not a horror film, but its squabbling, loyal young ensemble, homemade sense of adventure, and creepy treasure-hunt atmosphere closely match the clubhouse camaraderie at the heart of The Monster Squad.
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Night of the Creeps
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From the same director, this is a more grown-up, gleefully messy collision of aliens, zombies, detectives, comedy, and reverent B-movie horror style.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The Monster Squad is a club of pre-teenagers who idolize classic monster-movies and their non-human stars. They hold meetings at a tree-clubhouse in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Club leader Sean (Andre Gower), whose younger sister, Phoebe (Ashley Bank), desperately wants to join the club, is given the diary of legendary monster hunter Abraham Van Helsing (Jack Gwillim), but his excitement abates when he finds it is written in German. Sean and the rest of the Monster Squad—his friends Patrick (Robby Kiger) and Horace (Brent Chalem) -- go to visit an elderly man, known as the "Scary German Guy" (Leonardo Cimino), actually a kind gentleman and a former Concentration camp, to translate the diary.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
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