Headscratchers / The Monster Squad

• Many questions regarding Dracula and his monster gang. What was Frankenstein's monster even doing on the plane? If that man was a werewolf to begin with, how come no one noticed up until now? Where did the Gill-man come from? Where did Dracula get his car? How can he even summon these monsters to begin with?
  • Count Dracula is an aristocrat and quite wealthy. He probably chartered the flight himself (which looked a bit shady, so he probably had them bypass US Customs), had the hearse transported to the United States or simply bought it and didn't bother registering it (he's supernatural and plans to take over the world, so why bother putting plates on his car). There's even a brief scene where he left a message for Sean with an offer to buy the diary using an alias.
  • He was most likely laying low with the other monsters until their strongest moment. Also, every one-hundred years, there's a sort of peak in power with the amulet being at the center of it. Wolfman himself probably didn't notice until a few days before the altercation at the police station.
  • The Gillman was in the other crate that fell from the plane.
• Why Dracula resurrected the mummy? He can't kill anyone, he is weak, slow, powerless and is defeated very soon?
  • The mummy is like three thousand years old, he's seen the birth and death of civilizations, he's probably designed pyramids and great cities, commanded armies, mastered ancient and forbidden sorcery and knows secrets that not even Dracula himself can even fathom. He's got experience, and wisdom that he can convey to Dracula and help with his stratagem to Take Over the World. Plus he is also horrifying to look upon, so there's a shock value if nothing else.
• How come only female human virgins count? That could have saved the kids a lot of trouble.
  • Biology? Sexism? Tradition? Any of them are possible explanations.
    • Presumably not sexism, else the same sexism would've led Van Helsing's own group to recruit a priest for their own attempt rather than put an adolescent girl in danger.
    • An interesting idea occurs due to the lack of a priest - that the ritual (which presumably Van Helsing found from an older source) was designed to be performed by any virgin, with no religious overtones whatsoever, thus any kind of clergy could not perform it?
  • It's entirely possible it might have worked for the boys—but they're completely out of their depth here. Note: Van Helsing probably assumed the vampire hunters doing the ritual would be adult (probably married) men, not a gaggle of adolescents.
  • It could even be a lost in translation thing; Van Helsing found the ritual somewhere, but no one ever mentions where (I mean, it's extremely unlikely he designed it himself). Van Helsing could have translated the ritual into German from another older language, and used a word that Scary German Guy translated into 'virgin' with a female noun when the original meant 'person of either gender who has never had sexual intercourse'. There's at least one story out there where the term 'virgin' literally translated to 'untouched by man' and a twenty-something lesbian managed to qualify.
• What was the mummy doing in Eugene's closet?
  • Looking for fresh underwear?
  • Is Eugene Sean's neighbor? (I mean, why else is he hanging out with kids five or six years older?) Did Dracula send The Mummy out to find Sean and retrieve the diary after the Wolf Man failed, and he got lost? Or did Dracula send out the Wolf Man after the Mummy got lost?
• Where did the three brides come from? It's obvious why Dracula turned them - canon fodder and backup - but all we see of them pre-transformation is the three of them trapped in a closet or tiny room. They look like they're wearing some kind of really old-fashioned uniform, either a girl's school or maybe some kind of historical themed workplace?
  • Probably local girls abducted from town and forced to wear old-fashioned clothes as part of their initial imprisonment.
  • Speaking of which, what happened with the third bride? We see Rudy staking two of them, and while it is not entirely clear, later it seems that there are only two corpses laying on the street. Does this qualify for a "what happened to the mouse" entry?
  • Word of God from Dekker (I think he mentions it in the 'Wolfman's got nards' documentary?) is that Rudy killed the third Bride with an arrow as well, but he forgot to edit the shot in. (if you watch closely, you see Rudy releasing two arrows, but only one Bride getting hit)
  • If you listen to the radio broadcast over one of the scenes it informs us that 3 teenage girls from an exclusive private school have gone missing on a field trip. So these are the brides, hence why they're wearing schoolgirl uniforms before Dracula transforms them into his vampire harem. It does rather pose the question of how he was able to kidnap them during daylight but possibly he used the other monsters to snatch them?
• Traditionally, the classic Wolf Man only transforms during the full moon, correct? The full moon lasts three days. The first day has the Wolf Man being shot in the police station, and he joins Dracula in the swamp after he transforms in the ambulance. Another night has him escaping the mansion, and transforming in the phone booth while calling Del. Given the A-Team montage (and Eugene sending off the missive to the Army Man) the Squad's preparation must have taken at least several days - if nothing else, Rudy wouldn't be able to melt silver into bullets (a metal working or maybe mechanics class) and make stakes in wood working class the same day. So how is The Wolf Man transforming at the climax? Is a blue moon part of the once a century cosmic conjunction that enables the amulet to work? Or does the cosmic conjunction cause a rise in magical/mystical power that forces the Wolf Man to transform regardless of the moon?
  • The montage only lasts a day, because it's explicitly said in the scene preceding it that the time to use amulet is "tomorrow night."