10 Best Friendships In Horror Movies

Remember the 80s? Of course you do, considering that the creative media industries in the 2010s underwent a gargantuan resurgence of everything aesthetically pleasing from the time. Nowhere was this more obvious than in the medium of film and TV. Stranger Things debuted to universal acclaim. Stephen King’s IT was given the remake treatment to varying results, and everything we once held dear from the decade was assimilated into something so far removed from the original that it exudes a crippling lack of originality in abundance.

Well, this entry may be the most authentic representation of the 1980s ever put to film, and the ensemble, setting and premise are nothing short of parodic at this point. Almost formulaic in their approach. That doesn’t mean that Sean, Rudy, Phoebe, Patrick and Horace are undesirable or antiquated characters - quite the opposite actually.

A group of children who’ve branded themselves The Monster Squad (in relation to their passionate endearment to everything monster related), have their reality shaken after a faithful reimagining of Universal’s classic monsters materialise one after the other with no rhyme or reason and certainly no prejudice for who they’d like to ingest.

A sour taste remains in their mouth, however, when they naively discount the children as too insolent to be threatening. Except for Frankenstein, who refrained from throwing the little girl (and boys) into the water this time around.