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The Monster Club

I loved this movie with VINCENT PRICE. The seconds story was the worst. The first one was the best. The shadmock (a cross between a werewolf and a vampire) hires an assistant. This shadmock gets upset and whistles. Whoever he whistles to gets burned very badly. A very strange movie. The SHADMOCK is the same man who played Pink's father in THE WALL and he is BOB GELDOFF'S dad is real life. The last movie was good with the HOOGOO (a cross between a human and a ghoul-gewl). The people in this movie wanted to eat a movie producer. Very strange. In between, Vincent Price narrates with this guy and they are at a MONSTER CLUB which is like the star wars cantina. Vincent Price even DANCES at one point. Very odd and bizarre movie but fun.

I love this movie. When I began renting exclusively horror movies in the late eighties I'd rent movies like The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula and Monster Club and The House That Dripped Blood... and eventually I realized they were all by the same director, Roy Ward Baker. What stands out in his fillms to me is the colors. He goes for some really bold color choices. Monster Club is a funny movie. The musical interludes betw2een the vignettes are pretty damn snappy f you've heard them a hundred times, and I have. The stories are good. The dippy costumes are effective and fun. I saw it hosted by Elvira Mistress of the Dark and that made a lot of difference but it's a good movie with or without her breastesses.

This movie is good old fashioned scary fun, like walking through a "haunted house" at Halloween. The songs are fun. My ten year old niece really likes "I'm just a sucker for your love" (sung by a vampire- get it? "wink-wink"). It's a great Saturday afternoon- popcorn- scary- movie for the whole family (those old enough for trick-or-treat type scares. A refreshing break from the slasher, gory, sicko movies that they keep churning out at an annoying rate these days. Vincent Price is charming as a sweet, non-lethal vampire (the only time he ever played one, by the way.). Patrick Magee and Donald Pleasance, veterans of the old Amicus films, are terrific also. Rounding out the cast are Britt Ekland, Stuart Whitman, and Simon Baker. I really wish Hollywood would make more movies like this- imaginative stories with great spooky atmosphere instead of gallons of fake blood and body dismemberment.

This is one of the funnest films to watch - quite enjoyable. This is a Gothic comedy-horror for the most part and has a good message in the end about humans being the greatest monster of all. The Shadmock is the first story we are told and is not so comical - it's quite sad. This is my favorite story of the trilogy). The second story is of The Vampires and is funny. The Ghouls is not sad nor is it funny but it's a good story. The funniest parts of the film come from Eramus (Price) and R.Chetwynd-Hayes (Carradine) with their tongue-in-cheek humor. The music is not to bad - yes it is dated but then again the music in today's films will be considered "dated" too one day. I think the songs fit the film. I will admit that I would love to join this particular Monster Club. 8/10

First off it was cool to see John Carradine and Vincent Price in the same movie, it was way too long coming. Secondly, the stories are kind of cool. The soundtrack has some great eighties music, some of the best bands of the eighties are monsters apparently who play at the Monster Club. Now for the bad part. You heard me, the bad part. In the club sequences some of the background monsters look like store bought masks and Hollywood Toy and Costume on Hollywood Blvd. But that's just minor compared to the big picture. The girl that played the Humgoo was pretty, as a whole the monster club is major league cool movie with great performances and great story telling. So I would call the Monster Club a buried treasure worth discovering if you haven't seen it. 9 STARS.

This has one of my all time favourite horror stories in the third segment with Stuart Whitman; it haunted me for years and 30+ years on i still think of that misty village in the woods in sheer terror at least every year since. It was truly a masterpiece of horror that cannot even be matched today by anything I have seen. The atmosphere of sheer dread and terror it created lives with me today and perhaps that was because I was a teenager but I still remember the ending with the police actors from Space 1999 turning around with the teeth and returning to the village it was a superlative ending much as was the trend in those days what with things like Roald Dahl's Tales Of The Unexpected....Ahhhh they don't make em like they used to!

What can I say? I liked it. Then again, I've had a love affair with Britain's Hammer, Amicus and Tony Tensor's Tigon films since I was a kid in the Los Angeles area in the early 60s and caught Hammer's Hound of the Baskervilles (1959). For me, it's just a kick to see John Carridine and Vincent Price together again. I'm also a Roy Ward Baker fan and enjoy most of his work. Are the stories truly scary? No, not really. They're eerie. Strange. That's good enough for me. That works. And the capper is getting The Pretty Things as the Monster Club's house band. I have no idea what song Phil May & Co. play, but I love it. I've got several PT CDs as well as their 2-CD anthology and it's not contained in anything I've ever found. I'd dearly love to get a copy of their MC music. Any horror fan who writes that it was high time Hammer and Amicus rode off into the sunset ain't no horror fan, because they just don't make classy little gems like this anymore.