I don’t know about you, but one of my favorite horror movies as a kid wasNight of the Creepsdirector Fred Dekker andKiss, Kiss, Bang, Bangfilmmaker Shane Black’sThe Monster Squad. Like manyThe Monster Squadfans out there, I’ve wished for a sequel for about as long as I can remember. And today we’ve learned that aMonster Squadseries was in the works at one point in time! But it was ultimately abandoned because the powers that be behind the scenes felt it was too similar to Stephen King’sIT. Weak.

The Monster SquadandNight of the Creepswriter-directorFred Dekkerrevealed this tragic bit of news recently regardingMonster Squad 2and the possibility of getting aMonster SquadTV Show, saying this.

“Shane Black and I have both been approached about adaptingThe Monster Squadfor television. Was it my first choice? No. But I’m a big fan now of long-form television… And figuring out a way to takeThe Monster Squadand turn it into a long-form series was very exciting to me. But when we were approached, it was right afterStranger Things.

I thought, well, let’s make this for the people who fell in love when they were kids and say, ‘Where is the squad as adults?’ And Shane said to me, ‘Well that’s it.’ I said, ‘Yeah, it’s a great idea.’ And he goes, ‘No, that’s Stephen King’sIt. The first part of the book and the first movie is them askids fighting monstersand the second movie is them as adults fighting monsters.'”

So does this mean we will never see a sequel toThe Monster Squador a TV series based on the beloved kid-horror movie? Well, yeah, it looks that way according to Dekker, who goes on to say.

“As a fan of the genre, there is nothing to me remotely interesting or new about “Monster Squad” as a movie or a TV show. Maybe in 10 years, maybe in 15 years. But right now it’s like, well everybody’s already doing it.”

Again, weak. I mean I get Dekker saying that “everyone” is making similar stories these days, such as director Andy Muschietti’s ongoing adaptation of Stephen King’sITto Netflix and The Duffer Brothers’Stranger Things, but still, I want moreThe Monster Squad, guys! I guess I can’t speak for all horror fans out there, but I’m pretty sure that we would all be okay with aThe Monster Squad 2or a TV series nowadays. After all, it’s notThe Monster Squadripping-offStranger Things, now is it?

Anyhow, for those of you that might not know,Fred Dekker directed The Monster Squadfrom a screenplay he co-wrote along withLethal WeaponandIron Man 3scribe Shane Black. Jonathan A. Zimbert produced the flick. It starred Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Brent Chalem, and Ryan Lambert as the titular monster hunters along with Duncan Regehr as Dracula, Tom Noonan as Frankenstein’s monster, Jonathan Gries as The Wolfman, Tom Woodruff Jr. as Gill-man, and Michael MacKay as The Mummy.

TriStar Pictures unleashed the cult classic into a theater near your parents back on July 16, 2025. This story comes to us fromMoviefone.