by Shawn Robare | Oct 17, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Not long after I left the theater when I caught my first screening of The Monster Squad the film began to worm its way into my psyche in some strange ways. One of the most notable is in how I choose to collect certain things, specifically monster memorabilia. Since...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 16, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
Yesterday I took a look at the main US poster artwork for The Monster Squad (painted by Craig Nelson) as well as some alternate roughs that were potential candidates. Today I’m going to take a look at the rest of the posters that were released around the...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 15, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
The first time I saw the main US poster for The Monster Squad it was in the small black and white ad in the Arts & Entertainment Movie section of the Orlando Sentinel just over 27 years ago. Even in that tiny format I was excited by the design and the artwork,...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 14, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
When it came to breathing life into the monsters, Fred Dekker and the production sought out one of the masters in the field of special effects makeup and design, the legendary Stan Winston. Having just come of work on films like The Thing, Terminator and Aliens,...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 13, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
This past Friday a super cool Branded in the 80s reader from Spain (Emilio D.) sent me a bunch of pictures of cool Spanish VHS and DVD releases of The Monster Squad in response to my Dead Media Library article showcasing a bunch of the home video releases of the...
by Shawn Robare | Oct 12, 2014 | Branded in the 80s, Read
For part 4 of the Monster Squad art showcase I wanted to share something a little different today, a custom piece of action figure art! I found this artist who called himself G.I. Joseph on the Hisstank.com forums. He made this totally rad Rudy figure using 25th...
