Tag Archives: Tom Noonan

Top Ten Fun Facts About Fred Dekker’s ‘The Monster Squad’ (1987)

Releasing on August 14, 1987, Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad turns 35 in 2022, and to celebrate, we have compiled a list of fun facts. Synopsis: Five youngsters find themselves up against the combined might of Dracula, the Mummy, the Gill Man, and Frankenstein’s Monster who arrive in town in …

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Ten Fun Facts About Ellory Elkayem’s ‘Eight Legged Freaks’ (2002)

It’s been 20 years since we’ve seen David Arquette take on killer spiders in Ellory Elkayem’s Eight Legged Freaks, which had its Zurich premiere on May 30, 2002. The residents of a rural mining town discover that an unfortunate chemical spill has caused hundreds of little spiders to mutate overnight …

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‘The Monster Squad’ (1987) – A Retrospective On The ’80s Cult Classic

With the recent 32nd anniversary of the iconic film The Monster Squad, I couldn’t help but press play on one of my go to, once a year, must watch films. A perfect mix of Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948), and The Goonies (1985), The Monster Squad is just what …

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Manhunter (1986) Retro Movie Review

On August 15, 1986, director Michael Mann debuted his heavily stylized adaptation of Thomas Harris’s bestselling novel, Red Dragon, as a movie called Manhunter. The film also featured our first glimpse of one of the most infamous characters in movie history: Hannibal Lector. Manhunter stars William Petersen as FBI agent …

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