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Bookmark this pageThe Monster Club (1980)
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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From Time Out Film Guide
Scrapings of the horror-omnibus barrel in the Amicus tradition. The famous horror writer R Chetwynd-Hayes (Carradine), having donated some blood, is taken along by the grateful vampire (Price) to his club so that fellow-monster-members may provide him with material for future books. There follow three witlessly routine tales (adapted from stories by Chetwynd-Hayes), drearily executed and graced not at all by such luminaries as Pleasence, Magee and Whitman. Stultification is completed by assorted pop groups, presumably hired by the Monster Club to capture the teenage market, who are on hand to introduce each story with discordant squalls.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Producer: Milton Subotsky
Cast: Vincent Price, John Carradine, Anthony Steel, Donald Pleasence, Stuart Whitman, Richard Johnson, Britt Ekland, Patrick Magee, Barbara Kellerman, Simon Ward full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 97 mins
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