The Monster Club
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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.
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[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 Erasmus. Erasmus 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, Erasmus 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.
[edit] Cast
- Vincent Price as Erasmus
- John Carradine as R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- James Laurenson as Raven
- 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] 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.
The character of Lintom Busotsky is a film producer, and his name is an anagram of the real film's producer, Milton Subotsky.
One of the then-unknown bands performing in the club is UB40.
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