The Monster Club

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The Monster Club
Directed by	Roy Ward Baker
Produced by	Milton Subotsky
Written by	Edward Abraham Valerie Abraham
Starring	Vincent Price Donald Pleasence John Carradine Stuart Whitman
Music by	Douglas Gamley
Cinematography	Peter Jessop
Editing by	Peter Tanner
Release date(s)	1980
Running time	97 min.
Country	United Kingdom
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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.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Crew
4 Music
5 External links

[edit] 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.

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Crew

Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Produced by Milton Subotsky
Music by John Williams

[edit] Music

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. The rock band Night also perform the track "Stripper", which sadly did not appear on either of their albums.