Happy Halloween! On our last spooky movie adventure, we jump into one of Shane Black's first screen plays, the 1987 horror-comedy, The Monster Squad.

Directed by Fred Dekker

Written by Shane Black, Fred Dekker

Produced by Jonathan A. Zimbert

Starring Andre Gower, Robby Kiger, Duncan Regehr, Stephen Macht, Stan Shaw, Tom Noonan

Cinematography Bradford May

Edited by James Mitchell

Music by Bruce Broughton

Color process by Metrocolor

Production companies Taft Entertainment Pictures

Keith Barish Productions

Distributed by Tri-Star Pictures

Release date August 14, 1987

Running time 82 minutes

Budget

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Gross US & Canada

$3,769,990

Opening weekend US & Canada

$1,920,678Aug 16, 1987

Gross worldwide

$3,771,779

We FINALLY jump into the world of Hitchcock and we jump into the deep end with his 1960 psychological thriller - Psycho

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay byJoseph Stefano
Based on Psycho 1959 novel by Robert Bloch
Produced by Alfred Hitchcock
Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh
Cinematography John L. Russell
Edited by George Tomasini
Music by Bernard Herrmann
Production company Shamley Productions
Distributed byParamount Pictures[a]
Release datesJune 16, 1960 (New York City)[3]
September 8, 1960 (United States)[4]
Running time109 minutes
Budget
$806,947 (estimated)
Gross US & Canada
$32,181,230
Gross worldwide
$32,332,374

We continue our journey of the spooky with Ripley Scott's 1979 Sci-fi-Horror classic, Alien

Directed by Ridley Scott

Screenplay byDan O'Bannon

Story by Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett

Produced by Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill

Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto

Cinematography Derek Vanlint

Edited by Terry Rawlings

Peter Weatherley

Music by Jerry Goldsmith

Production companies 20th Century-Fox

Brandywine Productions[1][2]

Distributed by20th Century-Fox

Release datesMay 25, 1979 (United States)

September 6, 1979 (United Kingdom)

Running time116 minutes

Budget

$11,000,000 (estimated)

Gross US & Canada

$84,206,106

Opening weekend US & Canada

$3,527,881May 28, 1979

Gross worldwide

$109,726,643