This is like The Goonies meets Dracula. Actually, if I think about it, it's like Van Helsing with a cast of children which is way less shitty than Van Helsing. So there's that.I don't think anyone from this movie ever went on to make any sort of name for themselves except for Tom Noonan, who plays Frankenstein. It's always sad when you have people whose careers have peaked at 12.
Sean (Andre Gower) and his friends have a treehouse club revolving around classic Universal movie monsters. Then Dracula (Duncan Regehr) shows up in their town to continue an ages old battle involving amulets which open a portal into Limbo. Every 100 years, the amulets can be activated and the opposing side gets sucked into the Netherworld for eternity, which is what happens to Van Helsing (Jack Gwillim) in the opening credits of the movie. Drac gets his old buddies Frankenstein, the Wolfman (Carl Thibault), the Mummy (Michael Reid MacKay), and the Gillman (Tom Woodruff, Jr.) because I guess they couldn't get the rights to The Creature from the Black Lagoon, to help him find the amulet and take Van Helsing's diary away from a bunch of middle-schoolers.
Woodruff is the only name I recognized from the cast list and that's because he's not an actor, he's a prop maker by trade. He has actually had a long career doing work for films from The Terminator to Skyline (hey, they can't all be winners). Anyway, it's a fun little Halloween movie if you're surrounded by people who can't stand real horror films.
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