Review: The Monster Squad
The title characters (led by Andre Gower’s Sean) are pre-teens who obsess over movie monsters, especially those of the Universal Horror cycle. The gang, and Sean’s younger sister (played by the adorable Ashley Bank) discover an old diary written in German, so they give it to their scary-looking elderly, German neighbour (Leonardo Cimino, as a ‘survivor’ of another sort of ‘monstrosity’) to translate. This leads them on a quest to obtain an all-powerful amulet, however, there are others seeking this amulet; Count Dracula (Duncan Regehr), who has just fended off Prof. Van Helsing (Jack Gwillim) leads The Wolfman (Carl Thibault in makeup, Jon Gries in human form), The ‘Gill Man’ AKA “The Creature From the Black Lagoon” (FX man Tom Woodruff Jr.), The Mummy (Michael Reid MacKay), and Frankenstein’s Monster (an unrecognisable Tom Noonan) in an attempt to acquire the amulet and see that Evil holds the balance of power for eternity! ‘The Monster’, however, proves to be not a bad sort, and...