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The Monster Squad
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The Monster Squad is a 1987 film directed by Fred Dekker and written by Dekker and Shane Black. The film follows the exploits of a group of genre-savvy kids who seek to stop Dracula — and a host of other infamous movie monsters — from finding a mystical amulet and bringing about The End of the World as We Know It.The film was an out-of-print classic for a long time, but was given a new spiffy DVD release in time for its twentieth anniversary (with a Blu-ray release two years later). The makeup and special effects work on this film is a lesser-known effort of the late Stan Winston (who is better known for the frighteningly realistic puppets from classics such as the Terminator and Jurassic Park films).Not to be confused with the Saturday morning TV show. | |
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This Was His True Form | |
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This Was His True Form: When the Wolfman finally dies, he reverts back to his human form, who thanks Rudy before expiring. | |
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All Men Are Perverts | |
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All Men Are Perverts: Subverted by most of the Squad, including Franky. Only Rudy (and by accident, Franky) takes the pictures of the Girl Next Door, since the boys aren't old enough to have those kind of feelings yet (they don't really understand what a virgin is), and one of them is said girl's brother! | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Dracula slowly walks up to 6-year-old Phoebe and caresses her cheek before grabbing her. | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy | |
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Brainwashed and Crazy: Both inverted and played straight. Once transformed, the Wolf Man is completely subservient to Dracula; when a man, Dracula keeps him tied up and tranquilized. When he escapes, he calls the police - specifically, Del Crenshaw - to warn them about Dracula and his final words are a warning to Del that Dracula is after his son. | |
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Cool Old Guy | |
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Cool Old Guy: Scary German Guy is bitchin'! | |
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Genre Savvy | |
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Genre Savvy: The Monster Squad is a group of monster movie fans who ultimately use their cinema knowledge to fight real monsters. | |
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The Slow Walk | |
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The Slow Walk: Played deadly straight towards the end of the film, when Dracula brutally beats up and murders a bunch of cops without breaking his stride towards Phoebe and the amulet. | |
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Cool Shades | |
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Cool Shades: Rudy wears sunglasses. | |
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Papa Wolf | |
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Papa Wolf: Sean's father gets a call that Sean is in danger, and immediately leaps into action, eventually even shooting Dracula in bat form out of the sky! | |
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Reveal Shot | |
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Reveal Shot: The Wolfman walks through a swamp, and quickly looks to his right to find Dracula and the Mummy standing by him. | |
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Adaptational Villainy | |
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Adaptational Villainy: In his films, Gillman was a Tragic Monster who only became violent after being provoked by humans; here, he is a participant in Dracula's plan for the monsters to take over the world. | |
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Good Is Not Nice | |
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Good Is Not Nice: The amulet is outright described as being concentrated good, but in practice it is a superweapon that indiscriminately sucks both monsters and innocent humans alike into a dimension of the damned. | |
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Haunted Castle | |
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Haunted Castle: An actual castle, then a gothic mansion, complete with Trap Door. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: several. The armadillos glimpsed in Dracula's castle in the prologue with Van Helsing, are a reference to Dracula (1931), where they were shown crawling about while Bela Lugosi gave Dwight Frye a tour of his castle. Armadillos are indigenous to the Americas and while their appearance in a Transylvanian castle was seen as a goof in the earlier film, they are obviously meant as an homage here. The plane Dracula is seen on (and which carries Frankenstein's coffin) has the word 'Browning' on the side. It's a reference to Tod Browning, who directed the 1931 Dracula. The line "Dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves!" followed by a shot of a dead guy walking down a street is one to Night of the Creeps (1986) also written and directed by Fred Dekker. During the "Rock Until You Drop" montage, Sean points out the location of Dracula's mansion on Shadowbrook Road to Patrick on a map; also on the map is Chaney College, named for Lon Chaney Jr., famous for playing The Wolf Man. | |
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Power Floats | |
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Power Floats: Dracula doesn't need to turn into a bat to fly. | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Rudy at one point asks how the dog has managed to get in the treehouse, as the gang all put theirs hands together for team formation. | |
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The Dreaded | |
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The Dreaded: Rudy is this to the bullies at his school. They panic just from the sight of him. | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late | |
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The Cavalry Arrives Late: The army shows up after everything is settled. | |
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Artifact of Death | |
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Artifact of Death: The Amulet may be concentrated good but it's just as dangerous to innocents as to monsters, as the opening scene shows us. | |
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Embarrassing Nickname | |
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Embarrassing Nickname: Most of the characters refer to Horace as "Fat Kid". | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night | |
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Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Eugene finds the mummy in his closet. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog/Precision F-Strike: Dracula is at his cruelest when he grabs Phoebe by the neck and bellows "Give me the amulet, you bitch!" Horace's bullies at school call him "fat", smash his Snickers bar to the ground and then hit him in the face for calling them assholes. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
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Gentle Giant: Frankenstein is shown to be more goodnatured than the other monsters. | |
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Can't You Read the Sign? | |
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Can't You Read the Sign?: Sean wrote "No Girls Allowed" on the door of his treehouse. | |
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Boring, but Practical | |
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Boring, but Practical: Dracula discovers the kids interfering with his plans, and what power does the Prince of Darkness employ? He throws a stick of dynamite in their treehouse. | |
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Virgin Power | |
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Virgin Power: Required to activate the amulet. Patrick's sister is revealed to not be a virgin as she led them to believe ("DOESN'T COUNT?!") but little five-year-old Phoebe is. Also, it seems to be an unspoken rule that said virgin has to be female, although admittedly the majority of the main cast - who are incidentally eligible - don't really know what a virgin is. Funny thing: Phoebe, who almost can't read (Since she's 5 years old) is WAY more helpful and eficient while casting the spell than Patrick's Sister | |
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Deus ex Machina | |
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Deus ex Machina: when Sean, Franky, and Fat Kid are in the Shadowbrook mansion. The Wolfman's coming towards them from the left, the three brides from the right, and Dracula's coming straight at them. Sean turns around and starts scrabbling at the alcove behind them and the statue in it. Then he pulls the arm of the statue... and a secret door spills them into the secret passage leading to the amulet. The passage itself is justified, as Van Helsing's followers took the amulet to the new world and built the mansion to hide the amulet from Dracula. But Sean finding the passage at that very moment is most definitely this trope. | |
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Drive-In Theater | |
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Drive-In Theater: Sean lives near one, and occasionally takes to the roof to catch free movies with his dad. | |
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Fish People | |
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Fish People: The Gill Man from Creature from the Black Lagoon. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: Touched upon when the kids point out that Scary German Guy knows a lot about monsters. After he agrees that he does and the kids leave, the camera focuses on a tattoo on his arm, which is similar to the kind that the Nazis administered to Jewish prisoners during World War II. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: Fat Kid uses a slice of pizza (heavy in garlic) to scar Dracula. | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: Patrick to Lisa when the spell doesn't work: "You're not a virgin, are you?" | |
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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: How the audience learns the truth about Scary German Guy's experience with monsters via the concentration camp number tattoo. | |
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Body Horror | |
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Body Horror: Wolfman after he's blown apart by dynamite. He is still awake and aware, though he eventually pulls himself together... there's only one way to kill a werewolf after all. | |
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Affably Evil | |
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Affably Evil: Dracula can come across this way when talking to his fellow monsters, particularly Frank and the Wolfman. Not so when he's dealing with people. | |
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Seeking Sanctuary | |
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Seeking Sanctuary: The heroes try to seek refuge in a church...except it's locked. | |
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The So-Called Coward | |
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The So-Called Coward: "Fat Kid" Horace guns down the Gill Man while his former bullies cower and watch. | |
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Police Are Useless | |
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Police Are Useless: The police do nothing to stop the monsters, at least until the Wolfman informs Sean's dad that Dracula will kill his son. The Army isn't entirely useless, however, seeing as they get up and ready for battle with monsters on the word of a six-year-old kid. They arrive after the battle's already gone down, granted, but you have to applaud the effort. | |
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Recycled IN SPACE! | |
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Recycled IN SPACE: Charles Band's The Creeps is The Monster Squad WITH MIDGETS! | |
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Classy Cane | |
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Classy Cane: Dracula sometimes carries one in the first act. It turns out to have two electrodes hidden in the head, and the body turns into a lightning rod, in order to allow Dracula to bring Frankenstein back to life. | |
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Heel–Face Turn | |
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Heel–Face Turn: Frankenstein ends up siding with the heroes after befriending Phoebe. | |
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Silver Bullet | |
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Silver Bullet: "Only one way to kill a werewolf." | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus | |
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Freeze-Frame Bonus: The shot of the picture frame with a photo of the Sean's family has a crack on the glass. Implying that the wife smashed it in anger at her husband. Moments before, she was shown packing up. | |
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Kids Are Cruel | |
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Kids Are Cruel: If one were to take a drink whenever the kids made an anti-gay or anti-fat joke, they'd be very sloshed by the credits. | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones | |
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Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Dracula seems genuinely attached (for him, anyway) to Frankenstein. When he finds Franky's coffin, not only does his Classy Cane prove to have several attachments specifically for waking up Frankenstein, his voice is almost tender when he says, "Wake up, old friend. It is our time." | |
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Spit Take | |
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Spit Take: Rudy, after asked by Sean if he knows any virgins. And Rudy again, upon opening up some freshly developed photos, discovers that Frankenstein (accidentally) snapped a perfect pic of the Girl Next Door undressing. | |
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Dying as Yourself | |
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Dying as Yourself: The Wolfman, who thanks Rudy with his dying breath. | |
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Gilligan Cut | |
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Gilligan Cut: "Two-thousand year old dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves!" Cut to the two-thousand year old dead guy, walking away by himself. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerkass Has a Point: Rudy, Patrick and his sister were waiting for Sean, Fat Kid, and Eugene at the drive-in, already 10pm. Patrick's sister mockingly thinks that "maybe the monsters got them". | |
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FootFocus | |
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Foot Focus: We get a Feet-First Introduction of the barefoot peasant girl in the opening. | |
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All Germans Are Nazis | |
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All Germans Are Nazis: Teased with the Scary German Guy, but he turns out to be the exact opposite - a concentration camp survivor. | |
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The Undead | |
The Monster Squad / int_70c06a09 | comment |
The Undead: The movie features quite a few undead monsters. Dem Bones, Frankenstein's Monster, the Mummy, Vampires. | |
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Unflinching Walk | |
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Unflinching Walk: When Dracula blows up the tree house with a stick of dynamite. "Meeting adjourned." Also later when he goes to stop Phoebe at the end, punching out all the cops in his way. | |
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You Have to Believe Me! | |
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You Have to Believe Me!: The Wolfman's human form when trying to warn the authorities of what he is and what's coming. It doesn't help that he's mere minutes away from a transformation, nor that he beats up the cops and shooting at the ceiling screaming to be locked up. | |
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Action Prologue | |
The Monster Squad / int_77414bc2 | comment |
Action Prologue: The film begins with a prologue of Van Helsing trying to stop Dracula and his minions. | |
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Curse Cut Short | |
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Curse Cut Short: "Holy shi- Cow! Cow!" justified as Sean's in the kitchen with his mother. | |
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They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! | |
The Monster Squad / int_7a08e8d1 | comment |
They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!: Horace pulls one off when his former bullies still call him "Fat Kid", even while trying to thank him for saving their lives: | |
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Developing Doomed Characters | |
The Monster Squad / int_7f390ebc | comment |
Developing Doomed Characters: Detective Sapir is Del Crenshaw's partner, and black as well, but he gets a decent amount of screen time, evidence of his police work, and some good banter with Del, before his admittedly rather stylish death scene. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
The Monster Squad / int_7fbb2a3 | comment |
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Sean's dad got a call about a break-in at the museum (the Mummy escaped), his wife who was cooking dinner is unhappy with him choosing work over his family. Leading to their fight later on. | |
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Sdrawkcab Name | |
The Monster Squad / int_808b6d16 | comment |
Sdrawkcab Name: Sean sees the name Alucard on a contacts list at his home and figures out that it must be an alias being used by Dracula. | |
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Monster Mash | |
The Monster Squad / int_80a2c2de | comment |
Monster Mash: The movie features Dracula, the Wolfman, a mummy, Frankenstein's monster, and the Gill-Man. The Action Prologue also features a zombie at one point. | |
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Parental Bonus | |
The Monster Squad / int_86daf505 | comment |
Parental Bonus: A decidedly non-joke example - after the Scary German Guy mentions that he's had prior experience with monsters, the camera points to a strange tattoo on his forearm; no younger viewer would be expected to recognize that as a concentration camp ID tattoo. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
The Monster Squad / int_8797239c | comment |
Bait-and-Switch: After catching the boys snooping around his house, Scary German Guy is next seen brandishing a knife in what seems to be a threatening manner... until it turns out that he's actually just serving them some home-made pie, having welcomed them into his house and happily discussing legends of monsters with them. | |
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Cool Car | |
The Monster Squad / int_8a295a46 | comment |
Cool Car: The black hearse with a silver skull hood-ornament. Very cool. Scary German Guy's Land Rover, too. | |
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Forced into Evil | |
The Monster Squad / int_8a4ec732 | comment |
Forced into Evil: The Wolfman's human form. He's shown to be restrained and drugged by Dracula until the transformation kicks in. He still desperately tries to warn the authorities of what's going on. | |
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I Am Big Boned | |
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I Am Big Boned: Horace, known as "Fat Kid", says the following to two bullies: | |
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now! | |
The Monster Squad / int_8d189cee | comment |
Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Dracula at one point prematurely boasts that he and his forces can't be bested. | |
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Token Good Teammate | |
The Monster Squad / int_8f612013 | comment |
Token Good Teammate: Frankstein's monster is rather soft-spoken and not actively malicious towards anyone; he even switches sides after befriending Phoebe. Also, the Wolfman's human form, though he can't do much about it. | |
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Blood-Stained Glass Windows | |
The Monster Squad / int_90d2c6d6 | comment |
Bloodstained Glass Windows: The kids attempt to invoke this trope, but the church door is padlocked shut. | |
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Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold | |
The Monster Squad / int_9335ac5d | comment |
Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold: Scary German Guy turns out to be very cordial to the heroes and even helps them stop Dracula and the other monsters. | |
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Guns Do Not Work That Way | |
The Monster Squad / int_95ff52c7 | comment |
Guns Do Not Work That Way: During the scene where Rudy shoots the Wolfman with the silver bullet, the bullet in question hasn't been fitted into a cartridge, but yet is still able to be fired from a police-issue revolver. | |
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Transformation Sequence | |
The Monster Squad / int_9657fe0f | comment |
Transformation Sequence: Occurs twice with the Wolfman. The second wolf-out happens inside a phone booth. | |
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Naughty Birdwatching | |
The Monster Squad / int_968971cf | comment |
Naughty Birdwatching: Initially Rudy seems most interested in joining the Monster Club because their clubhouse has a perfect view into the window of Patrick's sister's bedroom, where he can use binoculars to watch her undress and take photos. | |
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Big Bad | |
The Monster Squad / int_970c790a | comment |
Big Bad: Dracula's tendency to lead any Monster Mash continues here. | |
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Black Dude Dies First | |
The Monster Squad / int_9788e2b1 | comment |
Black Dude Dies First: But he does get the consolation prize of best monster movie death ever: blown up with a stick of dynamite by Dracula. Also, he's only the first named character to die - several un-named background people die first. And Sapir does make it a good two-thirds through the movie. | |
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Rewatch Bonus | |
The Monster Squad / int_97926168 | comment |
Rewatch Bonus: A subtle one. Midway throughout the movie, the Wolf Man's human form escapes the mansion and calls the police in an attempt to warn them; he manages to get through to Sean's dad, Del. As he transforms in the phone booth, his last cognizant words are "He's gonna kill your son". In the third act, Del comes face to face with Dracula, who silkily and menacingly tells him "I will have your son." On a rewatch, you can see the horror on Del's face as he realizes that this was who the anonymous caller was warning him about - and Del's just shot him to no effect. | |
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Kill the Cutie | |
The Monster Squad / int_9c5e78d0 | comment |
Kill the Cutie: The peasant girl in the opening scene gets sucked into Limbo, presumably remains trapped there for eternity. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
The Monster Squad / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: One that's so subtle it borders on Rewatch Bonus. At an early club meeting, Sean is bemoaning that the diary, possibly by the Van Helsing, is in German. But when the Squad later recruits Lisa to perform the ritual, she's so bad at reading and speaking German that it takes several attempts and some on the spot tutoring by Scary German Guy to get through it, not to mention is not actually a virgin. When Rudy's given "The Monster Test" to become a part of the club, one of the questions is "Two ways to kill a werewolf". His answer is "Silver Bullet" and "There's only one way to kill a werewolf." Later, one of the Squad shoves the Wolf Man out a window with a lit stick of dynamite shoved into his waistband, but he literally pulls himself together and comes back for more. Turns out there really is only one way to kill a werewolf. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
The Monster Squad / int_9f80e1da | comment |
Sarcasm Mode: "Maybe the monsters got em." | |
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Homage | |
The Monster Squad / int_a1a1491e | comment |
Homage: The scene with Frankenstein and Phoebe by the pond is a Shout-Out to the original Frankenstein movie, when a little girl attempts to play with the monster by a lake. In this film, it ends much better for the little girl. Phoebe is even introduced with a daisy, as the original girl is. Dracula keeps Wolfman at bay with a cane topped with a silver wolf's head. That's how both Larry Talbot and the wolf that bit him were killed in the original film. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
The Monster Squad / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: A major problem with the film is that it doesn't really know if it wants to be a tongue-in-cheek Monster Mash or a family friendly adventure film with little horror-flavor thrown in. This leads into awkward moments where the level of gore/body count doesn't really match with the general mood of the scene and funny moments are followed by serious ones with little to no time catch breath in between. Scary German Guy's implied backstory as a Holocaust survivor is revealed immediately after a humorous scene of the man talking about monsters with the kids. Also, the subplot about Sean and Phoebe's parents marital problems. You go from a pleasant mother/daughter moment to Phoebe asking Emily if she's gonna yell at him again ("him" being Sean, but Emily thought she was talking about Del). A scene of Emily, while still apparently upset with her husband, during the "Rock Until You Drop" montage, is confused when all her silverware is gone. Due to Rudy melting them down to make silver bullets. | |
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Only Known by Their Nickname | |
The Monster Squad / int_a7850fbf | comment |
Only Known by Their Nickname: Horace's friends and bullies call him "Fat Kid". Scary German Guy also seems quite fine with being called "Scary German Guy". | |
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Super-Strength | |
The Monster Squad / int_a8c6a317 | comment |
Super-Strength: The titular Monsters (save for the Mummy). Each one of them gets a scene where they demonstrate being immensely strong. Curiously, it seems to be the Gillman's only power (aside from his Nightmare Face), as he gets gunned down pretty easily. | |
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Odd Friendship | |
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Odd Friendship: Rudy ingratiates himself into the Monster Squad by standing up to Horace's bullies for him to get access to the Monster Squad's treehouse and watch Patrick's sister undress. However, Rudy quickly befriends the group for real. | |
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My Card | |
The Monster Squad / int_aaa35901 | comment |
My Card: The very last line of the movie has Sean give a card of The Monster Squad to the army. Also a Title Drop and Brick Joke. | |
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Wolf Man | |
The Monster Squad / int_abf92023 | comment |
Wolf Man: One of the monsters is a werewolf. | |
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Bully Hunter | |
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Bully Hunter: Rudy notices Horace, aka "Fat Kid", getting picked on. He's not pleased and he turns the tables on Horace's tormentors. | |
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Chekhov's Skill | |
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Chekhov's Skill: In an early scene, Patrick mentions that his sister takes German in high school. This is the main reason the Squad enlists her to read out the amulet's ritual later. However this is subverted, because Lisa is actually really bad at German (even with Scary German Guy's on-the-spot tutoring it takes her several attempts to get through it), not to mention she's not actually a virgin. | |
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A-Team Montage | |
The Monster Squad / int_afdb4b3e | comment |
A-Team Montage: There is a montage of the heroes using their skills to plan the assault on Dracula and his minions set to "Rock Until You Drop" | |
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Catchphrase | |
The Monster Squad / int_b01abe4f | comment |
Catchphrase: Frankenstein's monster is very fond of the word "bogus." He even says it as a Pre Ass Kicking One Liner during the climax. | |
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People in Rubber Suits | |
The Monster Squad / int_b153c87d | comment |
People in Rubber Suits: Done well, thanks to Stan Winston. Many people consider the costume and effects for the Gillman in this film to be the best representation of the Gill Man in film history, despite the fact that he gets very little screen time. | |
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"Hey, You!" Haymaker | |
The Monster Squad / int_b628db4c | comment |
"Hey, You!" Haymaker: "Hey, asshole!" *Wolfman turns around* "You looked!" *WHACK!* | |
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Facepalm of Doom | |
The Monster Squad / int_b71fe734 | comment |
Facepalm Of Doom: The Gill Man kills a cop this way, with one hand on either side of his face. | |
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Slip into Something More Comfortable | |
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Slip into Something More Comfortable: Dracula uses the phrase to reference Wolfman's transformation. | |
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Danger Takes a Backseat | |
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Danger Takes A Back Seat: The man who becomes the Wolfman causes an incident at the police station when he tries to get the cops to lock him up, and when he grabs an officer's gun he's shot several times and apparently dies. He's taken away in an ambulance and transforms during the ride, grabbing the driver from behind and killing him. | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills | |
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Improbable Aiming Skills: Sean's father shoots Dracula in bat form out of the sky, with his non-dominant hand, while driving a car. Not to mention Rudy taking out the Wolf Man with a single bullet, though in that case it's implied that his human side took control just enough to hold him still for the shot.. | |
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Weaksauce Weakness | |
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Weaksauce Weakness: Rudy kills the mummy by tying his linen wrap to an arrow, sticking it into a tree, and pulling him with a car. Dracula has his classic weakness to garlic, made weaksauce by Horace burning Drac's face with a slice of pizza. | |
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Neck Lift | |
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Neck Lift: Dracula grabs Phoebe under the chin and lifts her off the ground to stop her completing the incantation. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
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Big "NO!": Dracula lets one out as he is sucked into Limbo. | |
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Genocide Survivor | |
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Genocide Survivor: The titular club meets the "Scary German Guy," an old man who lives in their neighborhood, who translates Van Helsing's journal for them and gives them advice about fighting monsters. When they ask if he's met monsters before, he wistfully says he has. The audience then sees a concentration camp serial number tattooed on his forearm. | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too! | |
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And Your Little Dog, Too!: After Detective Del Crenshaw fails to subdue Dracula, the vampire twists the knife by warning, "I will have your son." | |
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Description Cut | |
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Description Cut: While investigating a disappearance at a museum, Sean’s dad remarks, “2000-year-old dead guys do not get up and walk away by themselves!� Cut to the mummy shambling off through a deserted street. | |
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Magic Pants | |
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Magic Pants: Wolfman has pants that don't tear as he transforms so you don't see his "wolf dork"; they can also reassemble themselves. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Scary German Guy and Patrick's older sister are never referred to by their names in the movie. Scary German Guy even lets the squad call him that several times without correcting them. We also never learn the name of the wolfman's human form. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer:the horror movies made by Universal like were serious horror movies ment to scare people,This One Is a comedy with a friendly Frankenstein monster | |
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Genre Throwback | |
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Genre Throwback: To the Universal Horror Crossover films of the '40s such as Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, which brought pre-existing monsters together onscreen for little reason other than it being cool. The Monster Squad ups the ante by having five recognizable monsters rather than the usual two or three, but otherwise is very much in the spirit of the classic films. | |
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Opening Scroll | |
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Opening Scroll: | |
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Classical Movie Vampire | |
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Classical Movie Vampire: Dracula follows a lot of his popular depictions, appearing as a suave man in black with neat hair and a stylish cape. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
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Adaptational Wimp: Sure, Gill-man kills numerous police officers, but a single shotgun blast is enough to kill it. Compare this with him surviving numerous times being shot throughout his original trilogy and surviving just about each time. The Mummy also count for this. The Universal mummies where he is based on, are invulnerable/almost invulnerable and immortal undeads. This mummy seems to be based over Kharis, but even this more traditional mummy is invulnerable to physical attacks, even fire, and is inhumanly strong. Imhotep, in the other hand, is mostly a smart sorcerer with godlike powers on pair with Dracula. Compare those with the powerless and easily defeated mummy seen in Monster Squad. | |
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Our Wormholes Are Different | |
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Our Wormholes Are Different: At the stroke of midnight, the amulet opens up a black hole straight to Limbo. | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" | |
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Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Scary German Guy is only ever called Scary German Guy. | |
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Unusual Euphemism | |
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Unusual Euphemism: The word "dork" is used to refer to the Wolfman's penis at one point. Later, Rudy uses it as a verb ("have you ever been dorked?") when trying to ask Patrick's sister if she is a virgin. | |
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The Cavalry | |
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The Cavalry: Not the Army; they arrive too late. But Van Helsing shows up just in time to drag Dracula to the other side. | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge: After getting shot mid-flight, Dracula finally decides to stop fooling around and murders a bunch of cops without even breaking stride. | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
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All Girls Want Bad Boys: Inverted. Bad boy Rudy has a major crush on Patrick's sister Lisa. | |
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Eat That | |
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Eat That: Rudy forces E.J., leader of the bullies picking on Horace, to apologize and eat the smashed up Snickers bar without cleaning off the dog dirt E.J. dropped it in in front of the other school kids. | |
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Ship Tease | |
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Ship Tease: Rudy Halloran with Lisa Rhoades (Patrick's older sister), as he's seen putting his arm around her just before the end credits roll. She looks distinctly unimpressed, though, but the two are seen hugging each other as the credits roll. | |
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Pulling Themselves Together | |
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Pulling Themselves Together: Wolf Man's severed limbs can rejoin themselves. See also Magic Pants. | |
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Tragic Monster | |
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Tragic Monster: The Wolfman and Frankenstein are somewhat more sympathetic than the other monsters. Also the Vampire Girls, who, earlier in the film were terrified human girls locked up by Dracula. And presumably the Vampire Girl in the prologue. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: the "Groundhog Day" movies that Sean is a fan of seems to be one for several Slasher Movie franchises of the Eighties. | |
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Clothing Damage | |
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Clothing Damage: Happens the first time the Wolfman wolfs out in an ambulance: claws burst from his shoes. | |
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Non-Humans Lack Attributes | |
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Nonhumans Lack Attributes: Discussed. At one point, two members of the Monster Club debate over whether or not the Wolfman has nards. It turns out he does when a Groin Attack works on him. | |
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The Load | |
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Funny thing: Phoebe, who almost can't read (Since she's 5 years old) is WAY more helpful and eficient while casting the spell than Patrick's Sister | |
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Screaming Warrior | |
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Screaming Warrior: The Wolfman begs to be locked up in a cage so he can't hurt anyone while in his wolf form. When the cops don't take him seriously and instead try to arrest him, he looks out the window to see a full moon is about to form. He gets violent and continues screaming that they lock him up before he transforms, only to get shot (but it doesn't kill him). | |
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Battle Aura | |
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Battle Aura: Dracula displays one before he lays waste to the local cops. No CGI, just Duncan Reghr's acting! | |
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Exact Words | |
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Exact Words: The spell that will activate the amulet calls for a virgin. However, it doesn't say anything about an age-requirement.note Or technically a gender requirement for that matter, but it was The '80s. | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock | |
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Dramatic Gun Cock: Horace does a dramatic gun cock after killing the Gill-Man and while responding to the other kids again calling him "Fat Kid," saying, "My name... is Horace!" | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: The kids have an argument about whether the Wolfman has anything "down there". A kick to the Wolfman's crotch later in the movie reveals the truth of the hypothesis. | |
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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: At the end of the film Abraham Van Helsing emerges to pull Dracula into Limbo and end Dracula's reign of terror forever. | |
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Match Cut | |
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Match Cut: Rudy's first spit take, which we immediately cut to a rock thrown at a pond. The Wolfman grabs the ambulance driver, then we have a woman screaming (which turns out to be a horror movie Sean wanted to see). | |
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Offhand Backhand | |
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Offhand Backhand: A cop attempts to stop Dracula during the climax. Dracula just punches him in the face and keeps walking. | |
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Mercy Kill | |
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Mercy Kill: Wolfman considers his own death to be this, even thanking Rudy when Rudy shoots him with a silver bullet. Given his complete inability to control himself whilst in wolf form, it's not shocking. | |
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Product Placement | |
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Product Placement: Pepsi, Adidas, and Burger King are shown prominently in the film. | |
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Cosmic Keystone | |
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Cosmic Keystone: The Amulet, which can be used to open a portal to Limbo and is only vulnerable to being destroyed once every hundred years. | |
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Stab the Salad | |
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Stab the Salad: "Children, your time is almost up..." *brandishes carving knife* "...It's your last chance for more pie!" | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag: Rudy keeps doing a Spit Take with his drink. | |
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Comically Missing the Point | |
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Comically Missing the Point: | |
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Technical Virgin | |
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Technical Virgin: Patrick's sister tries to invoke this while the others are trying to work while the virgin-powered magic ritual didn't work. Turn out it DID count. | |
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Brick Joke | |
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Brick Joke: Eugene writes a distress note about monsters early in the film. In the end, the Army shows up too late, but fully prepared to fight back a monster assault based on the crayon message of a child. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Nearly impossible to know if it's this trope or just a plain old mistake, but Van Helsing's diary is written in German, despite the good doctor being Dutch. However, as a man of science in the late 1800s, Van Helsing would be fluent in German, and would most likely have written a scientific journal in that language, since that was the international language of scholars at the time, if only because more people would be able to read that than his native Dutch. | |
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