Are you a fan of “The Monster Squad”? Do you live in Los Angeles, or are you attending Comic-Con? Would you like to see the movie on the big screen and then hear a Q & A with the writer/director and some of the cast? If you’ve answered yes to these questions you’ll love what I’m about to post.
To help promote the July 24th release of the new 2-disc DVD, Lionsgate is promoting “The Monster Squad” by showing the film on the big screen and also bringing in some of the talent.
At Comic-Con the screening is on Saturday night the 28th, and in Los Angeles the screening is Sunday, July 22nd at 3pm.
While I don’t yet know how to get tickets for the Comic-Con screening, I’d imagine it won’t be too tough. It could be first-come, first served, or it could be that you need to get the tickets from the Lionsgate booth on the convention floor. I’ve put in an email asking about how to get tickets… so when I get a response I’ll update the story.
***Updated – I just heard the screening is open to the public and you’ll be able to get the tickets at the Liosngate booth at Comic-Con.
In Los Angeles the info on how to get tickets is below, along with the email I got announcing the screening.
Since so many of you love the movie I’m sure these announcements are great. The Comic-Con screening will be packed with fans and it’ll just another example why Comic-Con is so much fun.
Here’s the info:
COMIC-CON Screening:
WHAT: The Monster Squad 20th Anniversary Screening and Talent Panel
Fred Dekker, Andre Gower and more
WHEN: Saturday, July 28th
7:30pm PST
WHERE: Pacific’s Gaslamp Theater
701 5th Avenue
San Diego, CA 92101
And here is what I was sent for the Los Angeles screening:
Greetings, Monster Lovers!
It’s time to break out the wooden stakes and silver bullets as CREATURE FEATURES and the AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE present the spook-tacular 20th Anniversary screening of “THE MONSTER SQUAD!”
Written and directed by Fred Dekker (with co-writer Shane Black of “LETHAL WEAPON” fame), this epic cross between ‘The Little Rascals’ and the Universal Monsters showcases Hollywood’s classic quintet of creatures – Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, The Wolfman, The Mummy and The Gill-Man, gleefully hell-bent on world domination, only to be thwarted by the intrepid efforts of a feisty group of neighborhood kids, led by Andre Gower (and a little help from ‘Scary German Guy!’).
The film starred Stephen Macht as Gower’s marriage-challenged detective dad, Duncan Regehr as the deliciously vengeful Count Dracula, Tom Noonan as the benevolent Frankenstein’s Monster, plus top-notch recreations of the classic creatures by Stan Winston Studios, stellar 70mm-shot visual FX by BossFilm, and a rip-roaring music score by Bruce Broughton.
Though snubbed by audiences and critics during its initial run, this now-beloved monster rally has developed a wildly enthusiastic following thanks to diligent showings on cable, VHS, laser disc, bootleg DVDs, and now finally a deluxe 2-DVD set produced by Lionsgate, due July 24th.
We cordially invite you to grab your cape and neck bolts and join us at the Aero Theater in Santa Monica on Sunday, July 22nd at 3pm as we celebrate with one final widescreen showing before the DVD debut. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Fred Dekker, Producer Jonathan Zimbert, actors Andre Gower, Stephen Macht, Ashley Bank (“Phoebe the Pheeb!”), BossFilm’s Richard Edlund and others to be announced!
Tickets can be purchased at the box office or thru www.americancimatheque.com, plus full details and updates can be found at www.creaturefeatures.com.
PLEASE NOTE: (especially parents with impressionable tykes!) -- THE MONSTER SQUAD is rated PG-13 and contains enough questionable mayhem to send a busload of P.T.A. members into cardiac arrest. Expect the following: ample kid profanity, teacher-student rudeness, adolescent smoking, severed monster limbs, pre-teen gunplay, loud explosions, vampire stakings, leering sexual references, vampire-face-melting-by-garlic-pizza, not to mention the most inappropriate use of the “B-Word” (rhymes with witch!) in the history of cinema. To quote Horace, the film’s weight-challenged hero: “Wolfman’s got nards”…and so does this movie!
So mark your calendars and join us for a frightfully fun afternoon of chills and thrills as we present…
“THE M-M-M-M-MONSTER SQUAD!”
Sinc-eerie-ly,
Taylor White
Squad Leader
Creature Features
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