The Monster Club

1981

Action / Comedy / Fantasy / Horror / Music / Musical

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 39% · 8 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 5143 5.1K

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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.

Director

Roy Ward Baker Photo
Roy Ward Baker

Top cast

John Carradine Photo
John Carradine as R.Chetwynd-Hayes - Writer
Liz Smith Photo
Liz Smith as Villager
Stuart Whitman Photo
Stuart Whitman as Sam - Movie Director
Lesley Dunlop Photo
Lesley Dunlop as Luna - the Humghoul
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809.77 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 7
1.44 GB
1920*1080
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 10

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by kevin_robbins 7 / 10

This is a must see for fans of the classics

The Monster Club (1981) is a movie I recently watched off Shudder after seeing it on Into the Darkness (it's also available for free on Tubi). The storyline focuses on a vampire who is a fan of an author's work. He introduces himself to the author, takes him back to a club filled with nothing but monsters and tells him a series of short stories that explains how monsters work. This movie is directed by Roy Ward Baker (Aylumn) and stars Vincent Price (Tingler), John Carradine (Stagecoach), Donald Pleasance (Halloween) and Simon Ward (The Three Musketeers). This movie is definitely a little bit cheesy in the interactions and songs between scenes, but is still fun in a nostalgic way. Vincent Price is awesome as you'd expect and there are some great sequences that will make you chuckle. Loved the end of the first story, Donald Pleasance's vampire story and ultimately how the movie ended and depicts humans. Overall, this is a must see for fans of the classics and I'd score it a 6.5/10.
Reviewed by bellino-angelo2014 7 / 10

Very nice horror antology

I admit that I am not a great fan of horror movies, but for me the ones from the 1970s and 1980s were the best of them all. It begins with vampir Eramus (played by Vincent Price, a veteran of the genre) that invites writer Chetwynd-Hayes (played by John Carradine in one of his MANY movies) to a monster club, full of various vampires, witches and other un-natural beings. And they share three horror stories:1) Two swindlers (played by Simon Ward and Barbara Kellerman) decide to take advantage of a recluse, with disastrous (and scary) results. Because the recluse is a shadmock2) A little boy discovers that is the son of a vampire, and while three vampire hunters led by clergyman Donald Pleasence break at the kid's home, his father bites Pleasence and soon he gets staked by his assistants while the vampire dad faked his death. Richard Johnson and Britt Ekland are also good.3) (My personal favourite) Sam, a film director (played by Stuart Whitman) visits some locations for his next film, and ends in an horrifing village inhabited by ghouls (corpse-eating monsters). Sam meets a girl named Luna, and she advices him to hide in the church because ghouls can't enter in sacred places; soon Luna tries to help him escape, but she gets killed by ghouls and Sam is forced to return in the village by ghoul policemen.In the end Chetwynd-Hayes is made a member of the Monster club. And Eramus admits that humans are the worst type of monsters.Roy Ward Baker (in his horror swansong) is great as usual, and the actors all did a fine job. Kudos to Vincent Price in his only interpretation of a vampire!
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