by Shawn Robare | Oct 10, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
On February 10, 1988 The Monster Squad was released for the first time on home video, a mere five months after it was released in theaters. There were two types of films that were released this fast back in the 80s, humongous blockbusters like Batman and those flicks...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 9, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Shortly after I first saw The Monster Squad I discovered one of the magazine staples of my youth, Fangoria. At the time, around 1987-88, there were no shops around me that carried magazine back issues and my parents weren’t keen on me ordering from the Fangoria...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 8, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
There are a lot of top 10 Monster Squad trivia lists online so when I was prepping for the countdown this month I initially scratched that idea from the list of topics to cover. But the more I dug into the film and the more research I did I found some things that...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 7, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
I’m not sure if anyone in the world besides me finds pop culture lettering and logo design variation interesting, but for all of the font nuts out there that are also Monster Squad fans there are a bunch of different title designs that made the rounds before and...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 6, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
One of the things I was looking forward to investigating about The Monster Squad was why it seemed to fail to capture the theater audience when it was originally released in mid-August, 1987. I mean I saw it in the theater and LOVED every single frame, so it confused...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 5, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For Day 2 of the Monster Squad fan art showcase I wanted to highlight a couple of seriously fun concepts. First is the amazing work of Jason Edmiston who really knocked it out of the park with this Night of the Creeps/Monster Squad mash-up for Fright Rags… Next...
