THE MONSTER CLUB

'The Monster Club' is a 1980 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine. An anthology film, it is based on the works of the British horror author R. Chetwynd-Hayes.

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Plot

Cast

Crew

Trivia

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Plot

A fictionalized version of Chetwynd-Hayes (Carradine) is approached on a city street by a strange man (Price) who turns out to be a starving vampire named Eramus. Eramus bites the writer, and in gratitude for the small "donation", takes his (basically unharmed but bewildered) victim to the titular club, which is a covert gathering place for a multitude of supernatural creatures. In between the club's unique music and dance performances, Eramus introduces three stories about his fellow creatures of the night: A hybrid creature called a Shadmock leads a troubled existence and kills by whistling, a peaceable family of vampires is relentlessly if ineptly hunted by a team of bureaucratic undead-killers, and a movie director scouting locations for his next film pays an unpleasant visit to a small backwards village inhabited by a species of ghoul. At the end of the film, Eramus cheerfully lists to the other club-members all the imaginative ways that humans have of being horrible to each other, and Chetwynd-Hayes is made an honorary monster and member of the club.

Cast

★ Vincent Price as Eramus

★ John Carradine as R. Chetwynd-Hayes

★ James Laurenson as Raven (The Shadmock)

★ Anthony Steel as Lintom Busotsky

★ Warren Saire as young Lintom

★ Britt Ekland as Lintom's mother

★ Richard Johnson as Lintom's father

★ Donald Pleasance as Pickering

★ Stuart Whitman as Sam

★ Lesley Dunlop as Luna

Crew

★ Directed by Roy Ward Baker

★ Produced by Milton Subotsky

★ Music by John Williams

Trivia

Despite Vincent Price's decades-long career as a horror actor, 'The Monster Club' features what may be his only film performance as a vampire;although he appeared as Dracula in the educational film "Once upon a Midnight scary".
The character of Lintom Busotsky is a film producer, and his name is an anagram of the real film's producer, Milton Subotsky.
Musical artists performing between stories include B. A. Robertson, The Pretty Things and, though they don't appear in the film, the soundtrack features an early appearance by UB40.

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