The Monster Club

1981

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Music / Musical

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 71% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 4500 4.5K

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Plot summary

A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.


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Vincent Price as Eramus
Donald Pleasence as Pickering - Chief of the B-Squad
Britt Ekland as Busotsky's Mother
John Carradine as R.Chetwynd-Hayes - Writer
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by poolandrews 7 / 10

Great fun, both funny & eerie I really like this.

The Monster Club starts late one night in London as famed horror author Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (John Carradine) is attacked by a Vampire named Eramus (Vincent Price), afterwards Eramus invites Hayes back to a late night party at a club where he will get inspiration & material for some new books...

First up Hayes is told the 'Shadmock Story' in which a odd looking & lonely man has a very powerful whistle...

Then Hayes is told the 'Vampire Story' about a young boy named Linton (Warren Saire) & his Vampire father (Richard Johnson) who is being hunted by the 'Beenie Squad' & Chief Pickering (Donald Pleasence)...

Finally the 'Humegoo Story' sees a horror film director (Stuart Whitman) trapped in a spooky village by Ghoul's & finds himself on the menu...

This British production was directed by genre veteran Roy Ward Baker & was the final film produced by Amicus studios who at one point had specialized in these horror anthology films & made some of the best the genre has to offer including Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The House that Dripped Blood (1971), Tales from the Crypt (1972), Asylum (1972) & The Vault of Horror (1973). Based on stories from the book by the real Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes the script tries to be a little more light hearted than one might expect, it still has a few scares & some eerie moments but overall the tone is lighter than usual for Amicus, I assume The Monster Club was made with a younger audience in mind. I have to admit that I am a big fan of The Monster Club, call it a guilty pleasure or just that I have no discernible taste in films but I really enjoyed this from start to finish & is a real product of it's time that maybe hasn't dated that well but so what? At about 100 minutes long The Monster Club moves at a decent pace & none of three stories outstay their welcome & all three offer something different. The first Shadmock story is a little weird but has a few great moments including a twin shocking & touching twist ending that is well handled. The second Vampire story is probably my least favourite of the three stories & in my opinion is the weakest, it feels more like a Vampire sitcom with one of the worst twist endings around. However, it does a have a few funny comedic moments & the build-up of the story is also quite good but it's a shame it all falls apart at the end. The third Humegoo story is easy the best of the three as far as I am concerned, it is a genuinely eerie little story with a fantastic atmosphere that ends a little abruptly but I think suits the story very well.

One reason why I think The Monster Club has a bad reputation is because of the framing parts set inside the monster club itself, while it's great to see veterans John Carradine & Vincent Price bounce one-liners off each other the disco dancing monster look awful with joke shop mask's of the lowest quality. Then there's the truly terrible soft rock pop musical numbers by the likes of The Viewers, B.A. Robertson, Night, The Pretty Things & the then unknown UB40. There is one cool moments though when a stripper does her thing to one of the songs & ends up taking her skin off in silhouette to reveal her skeleton, very amusing & a nice touch. The Monster Club drips atmosphere with the third Humegood story in particular being very creepy, I also loved the comic book style black and white storyboard interludes that represent the flashback, very stylish & an imaginative way to not spend much money! There's not much blood or gore here, a couple of Vampires are seen with stakes in their chest, there's a melted Cat & a woman's face is also melted but otherwise there's nothing graphic here.

Apparently shot in Hertfordshire here in the UK this is well made with a nice feel to the production, it's just so odd that while the stories themselves are so atmospheric & well made the monster club parts are horrendously dated & camp. There's a great cast here, Carradine & Price are terrific ('where are your fangs' ask's Carradine to which Price replies 'their retractable when not in use'!) while Donald Pleasence, Britt Ekland, Patrick Mcgee & Stuart Whitman are also great although I did think Richard Johnson's comic accent made him sound Italian!

The Monster Club is great entertainment for an old school horror anthology fan like myself, I love the performances & atmosphere & even find the disco dancing monster funny in a camp sort of way. What else can I say? I am probably flying against popular opinion again but screw it, I thought The Monster Club was terrific, funny, eerie & creepy in equal measure. They just don't make them like this anymore.

Reviewed by ma-cortes 6 / 10

Music-horror compilation formed by three segments with a fine cast giving nice performances

Another melange terror movie , being pretty good , and freely based on comic books , produced by Amicus : Max Rosenberg , Milton Subotsky . A classic terror movie formed by various segments well realized and magnificently played . Typical horror film financed by Amicus with a great British cast and formed by episodes full of creepy events , chills, thrills , gore and guts . A vampire (Vincent Price) invites his favorite horror author to a nightclub for monsters and shares three stories to inspire his next book : In first segment titled "Shadmock Story" , a con artist couple (Barbara Kellerman, Simon Ward) suffers the consequences when they try to take advantage of a suspicious recluse , who is sensitive about his monstrous pedigree . In second episode titled "Vampire Story" a rare stranger tricks a bullied kid into endangering his vampire father (Richard Johnson) and beloved mother (Britt Ekland) . In third segment titled "Humgoo Story" a film director (Stuart Whitman) looking for the perfect location to shoot a terror film stumbles upon a village populated by monsters led by a weird innkeeper (Patrick Magee). You'll meet some interesting people and hear some great songs at The Monster Club ¡ .

Great cast as Vincent Price and John Carradine star this ordinary antology picture in which a writer of horror stories nicely played by John Carradine is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman ironically performed by Vincent Price . Amicus last portmanteau movie that simply slaps down its thrilling and terrifying tales , butressing with dreary slabs of plot and chatter, concluding into eerie results . Formed by three segments , all of them are filled with mystery , suspense , terror , grisly killings , twisted events and horrible happenings . The British star-studded results to be pretty good with a plethora of notorious actors such as : Barbara Kellerman , Simon Ward , Geoffrey Bayldon, Donald Pleasence , Britt Ekland , Anthony Valentine , Neil McCarthy , Stuart Whitman , Lesley Dunlop , Patrick Magee , among others . There , at a discoteque in which music bands are performing songs take place the meeting between Vincent Price and John Carradine , subsequently three gruesome stories are told ; between each story some musicians play their songs . Featuring songs by Night B.A. Robertson , The Pretty Things and the Viewers . And soundtrack music by John Williams , UB 40 , and The Expressos . Each story harbours an ingeniously creepy and ghoulish conceit and at the end each tale takes place a grand guignol climax.

The motion picture was professionally directed by the British horrormeister Roy Ward Baker, though another terror specialist director, Freddie Francis, was the original choice to shot. However the movie never secured theatrical distribution in the US instead the movie was sold for regional television and in the UK , the picture attained a limited theatrical release . In ¨Monster Club¨ Roy Ward Baker emphasising the frightening , dramatic and suspenseful possibilities . Being final theatrical film of director Roy Ward Baker . Roy directed a great number of films . During World War II, he worked in the Army Kinematograph Unit under Eric Ambler, a writer and film producer, who, after the war, gave Baker his first opportunity to direct a film, The October Man (1947). He then went to Hollywood in 1952 and stayed for seven years, returning to Britain in 1958, when he directed one of his best films, A night to remember (1958) . During the 1960s and 1970s , Baker directed a number of horror films for Hammer and Amicus. He also directed in British television, especially during the latter part of his career . Deemed to be a terror expert, as proved in The monster club , Mask of death , And now the screaming starts, The legend of the 7 gold vampire s, Asylum , Dr Jekill and his sister Hyde , The scars of Dracula , The vampire lovers, The anniversary . Roy Baker also directed some Hollywood fims such as : Inferno, House in the square, A night to remember, Don't bother to knock, and Night with sleep . Rating : acceptable and passable. 6/10. Worthwhile watching.

Reviewed by JoeKarlosi 6 / 10

The Monster Club (1980) **1/2

It's been many years since I last saw this anthology, and though it's usually reviled I think it's gotten better with age. I love the air of black comedy that prevails in the scenes with Vincent Price and John Carradine in the Disco (both perform very tongue in cheek and appear to be having some fun spoofing their images), and the three horror tales aren't bad, either. The stories manage to be satirical, humorous, and even a little scary. I even liked some of the rock tunes sung at the club (my favorite probably being B. A. Robertson's SUCKER FOR YOUR LOVE). I also like MONSTERS RULE O.K. by the Viewers. Okay, so I wouldn't go out and buy the album perhaps, but the songs work nicely within the bizarre context of the film. Price and Carradine actually get up on the dance floor to boogie with the ghouls, and it's good fun all around. **1/2 out of ****

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