The Monster Squad - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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Fan of The Monster Squad or just want to share your movie knowledge? This topic is dedicated to all trivia and questions related to The Monster Squad

[carla]

Andre Gower and Robby Kiger were friends in real life before filming. Gower campaigned to the producers to hire Kiger in the best friend role of Patrick.

[oscar]

Near the start of the movie the plane where Dracula first appears has "Browning" written on the side this a nod to director Tod Browning who directed "Dracula" in 1931.

[sara]

When they have to read German incantations out of a book, Patrick's Sister, who is an adult, has bad German pronunciation (for example, mispronouncing the German word "weh" which phonetically is pronounced as "vay"). But little Phoebe, who is only 5 years old, has perfect German pronunciation.

[nicholas]

According to director Fred Dekker, Shane Black's first draft of the screenplay was so huge that the opening of the film featured Van Helsing accompanied by zeppelins and hundreds of men on horseback storming Dracula's castle. Dekker stated that this sequence would have cost more than the final budget of the film.

[melinda]

There is a poster for the Return of the Living Dead (1985) visible on the wall of the club house.

[chad]

There are at least two versions of Michael Sembello's end-credit song. In some versions, dating back to VHS release days, there is a lyric referring to "..the gillman swimmin' in the pool". As of 2007, in the recent HD cable release, this is replaced simply by "..the Creature From The Black Lagoon".

[jeffrey]

According to the director Fred Dekker the film was cut by 13 minutes because some executives didn't want it to run more than 90 minutes.

[brent]

One of the technological improvements devised for The Monster Squad was a cable controller that could be operated by fewer puppeteers. "Back in those early days," commented SWS creature mechanic Richard Landon, "those of us in the mechanical department were exploring the whole new science of how to build this stuff, including cable controls. There'd been cable-controlled puppets going all the way back to the giant squid in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. But we were trying to come up with much more sophisticated controllers. When I first started working for Stan, he'd been testing some new controllers, including one with ten levers that made ten fingers move individually. But that meant that ten people were required to move two hands." "For Monster Squad, I built a skeleton hand with a controller that moved all ten fingers. So a single operator could control ten cables at once to make the fingers flex. Going from ten operators to one was the kind of stuff we were doing in those days to improve the technology. It usually came down to necessity. Something would come up where we had to do it -- so we did."

[jeffrey]

The movie is a not based on or is a remake of Monster Squad (1976). The short lived TV show was about wax figures of three monsters that comes to life to battle evil.

[christina]

The picture that Frankenstein's monster takes of Patrick's sister undressing in front of the window is actually of a blonde girl in a black shirt.

[christina]

Has the same "Dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves" line followed by a shot of a dead guy walking down a street as Night of the Creeps (1986) also written and directed by Fred Dekker.