When crafting a month of content targeted at the horror/Halloween crowd, it's important to provide balance between the current, more serious trend in horror, and highlight those movies which focus on how much fun the genre can be. Which is why I present to you a look back at The Monster Squad. The Monster Squad was a little-seen horror/comedy back in the day, but found its audience on home video and TV, and rightfully so. This movie is a hoot, and mixes shocks, laughs and special effects in equal measure, much like Ghostbusters had done a couple of years earlier. As written by Shane Black (who went on to write Lethal Weapon) and Fred Dekker (who directed Night of the Creeps), The Monster Squad is about a group of monster-obsessed kids who discover Dracula, the Frankenstein monster, the Mummy, the Wolfman, and a gill man have taken up residence in the neighbourhood. Naturally, the kids decide to take these creatures out before they destroy the world. What ensues is 80s s...

Monster Brawl Eight classic monsters fight to the death in an explosive wrestling tournament set inside an abandoned and cursed graveyard.  Jason: Taken as a work of traditional cinema, Monster Brawl sucks. There's no plot, point, or narrative structure. Viewed as a work of gonzo B-movie making, this is the cat's ass. Monster Brawl is far from perfect. The movie is essentially presented as a pay-per-view matchup between monsters, with the commentators -- Dave Foley, Art Hindle and Jimmy Hart -- more annoying than funny, especially at the outset Everything else is a hoot, especially the brawls between the monsters. This is essentially a riff on the WWE, playing off the over-the-top fights and corny showmanship (The Mummy's unintelligible call out is a riot. You'll know it when you see it). Taken on that level, Monster Brawl is a lot of fun This isn't something I could watch over and over, but I will see it again with buds over beers. It's l...