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Mark Mancini<\/b><\/span>\u00a0and Mental_Floss<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>present 13 Spooky Facts About The Monster Squad<\/em><\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Here are three of my favorites<\/span>…<\/p>\n 3. THE CREATURE DESIGNERS WORKED HARD TO AVOID LEGAL PROBLEMS WITH UNIVERSAL.<\/span><\/strong> \u201cAlthough we were doing a movie that was a takeoff on the Universal classics,\u201d said legendary monster creator Stan Winston, \u201c\u2026 none of our designs infringed on the original designs of the Universal characters. There were subtle changes; we had to be sure that nothing about them could be considered a copyright infringement of a design.\u201d Which is why Dracula has no Lugosi-esque widow\u2019s peak, Frankenstein monster\u2019s neck bolts have migrated to his temples, and Wolfman has pointy ears and a face that Dekker describes as \u201cmore lupine\u201d than what Universal had come up with.<\/p>\n 8. DUNCAN REGEHR BEAT OUT LIAM NEESON FOR THE ROLE OF DRACULA.<\/span><\/strong> 12. THE MOVIE SPENT JUST TWO WEEKS IN THEATERS.<\/span><\/strong> Today, The Monster Squad<\/em> commands a dedicated fan base. When the cast and crewreunited for a special two-night showing at Austin\u2019s Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in 2006, both screenings sold out. As Dekker once put it, \u201cIt took 20 years for the movie to find its audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mark Mancini\u00a0and Mental_Floss\u00a0present 13 Spooky Facts About The Monster Squad.\u00a0\u00a0Here are three of my favorites… 3. THE CREATURE DESIGNERS WORKED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,53,63,54,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-humor","category-movies","category-trivia","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13570,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13567\/revisions\/13570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
\nFirst and foremost,\u00a0The Monster Squad<\/em> is an affectionate tribute to Universal\u2019s iconic horror movies of the 1930s, \u201840s, and \u201850s. Nevertheless, the studio passed on producing the film, which was ultimately picked up by TriStar. This forced The Monster Squad<\/em>\u2019s visual effects team to get creative.<\/p>\n
\nIn 1986, Liam Neeson was still a relative unknown and, like many struggling actors, decided to try out for a horror movie. Apparently, he nailed his audition with a superb take on the Count. \u201cWe thought for sure we [were] going to hire this guy,\u201d producer Jonathan Zimbert revealed inMonster Squad Forever<\/em>. \u201cThen Duncan came in and was not only as brilliant, but he was terrifying also.\u201d Twenty years later, Wizard<\/em> magazine named Regehr the \u201cgreatest Dracula of all time\u201d for his chilling performance in The Monster Squad<\/em>.<\/p>\n
\nReleased on August 14, 1987, The Monster Squad<\/em> was both a commercial and critical flop.Vincent Camby of The New York Times<\/em> called it \u201ca silly attempt to cross breed an Our Gang<\/em>comedy with a classic horror film, which usually means that both genres have reached the end of the line.\u201d After a two-week theatrical run, the movie was pulled. However, it slowly built a following via video rentals and cable broadcasts.<\/p>\n