Trivia / The Monster Squad

• Blooper: If you have the DVD, and pause right at the moment Rudy showed Patrick's sister the photo of her undressing, it wasn't exactly it.
• Box Office Bomb: Budget, $12 million. Box office, $3.8 million.
• Cast the Expert: Sonia Curtis was cast as the Peasant Girl because she could speak German.
• Colbert Bump: While it wasn't completely unheard of beforehand, The Nostalgia Critic's review helped to bring this otherwise obscure film to the attention of millennials.
• Deleted Role: Dustin Diamond had a small role as a kid who tries to trade baseball cards with the boys, but this was later cut.
• Dueling Works: Was released in theaters two weeks after The Lost Boys, another movie about a group of kids that have to defeat a group of monsters (although exclusively vampires in the case of The Lost Boys)
• Enforced Method Acting: When Dracula threatens Phoebe after grabbing her by the throat, Phoebe's blood-curdling scream is Ashley Bank's genuine reaction to seeing his fangs and gleaming red eyes for the first time. Duncan Regehr refused to do a second take of the scene.
  Dracula: Give me the amulet, you bitch!
• Follow the Leader: The film is a rather blatant attempt to cash in on the success of The Goonies. It even cast Mary Ellen Trainor as Sean and Phoebe's mom - she played Mikey and Brand's mother in The Goonies.
• Genius Bonus: It's not a surprise that the Frankenstein Monster (aka The Monster) makes a Heel–Face Turn. If you know anything about the original book or story, Frankenstein's creation was never really evil to begin with - just lonely and confused with no guidance.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: For the longest time, bootlegs were the only way to see the film, as many networks had long stopped showing the film and it was out of print on VHS. In 2006, the film was shown in several independent theaters across the US, which led to a campaign for a proper DVD release of the film. In 2007, a two-disc DVD was finally released in honor of the film's 20th anniversary; it features a brand new commentary by the film's director and several of the cast members, a five-part documentary on the film's creation and its eventual cult following ^note  It's called Wolfman's got nards! and is directed and hosted by Andre Gower, who played Sean, and - of course - a brand new remastered version of the film. And, to put icing on the cake, it only took two years after that for the Blu-Ray, which shows the film in extremely good HD and retains all the extras from the DVD, most of them in HD.
• One-Take Wonder: The scene where Dracula lifts Phoebe up and she screams was done in one take. Duncan Regehr wouldn't wear his red contacts or fangs around the five year old Ashley Bank because it scared her too much. For the scene, director Fred Dekker just told Ashley to scream once the platform raised her. When she asked, "When?", Dekker told her, "Oh, you'll know," and proceeded to shoot. The terrified scream you hear when Dracula opens his eyes is Ashley's genuine scream of fright.
• The Red Stapler: Sean's red "Stephen King rules" T-shirt is available on at least one pop culture merch website.
• Vindicated by Cable: It bombed in its theatrical run, but reruns on HBO and basic cable throughout The '90s turned it into a Cult Classic, leading to its home video rerelease in 2007.

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