Another melange terror movie , being pretty good , and freely based on comic books , produced by Amicus : Max Rosenberg , Milton Subotsky . A classic terror movie formed by various segments well realized and magnificently played . Typical horror film financed by Amicus with a great British cast and formed by episodes full of creepy events , chills, thrills , gore and guts . A vampire (Vincent Price) invites his favorite horror author to a nightclub for monsters and shares three stories to inspire his next book : In first segment titled "Shadmock Story" , a con artist couple (Barbara Kellerman, Simon Ward) suffers the consequences when they try to take advantage of a suspicious recluse , who is sensitive about his monstrous pedigree . In second episode titled "Vampire Story" a rare stranger tricks a bullied kid into endangering his vampire father (Richard Johnson) and beloved mother (Britt Ekland) . In third segment titled "Humgoo Story" a film director (Stuart Whitman) looking for the perfect location to shoot a terror film stumbles upon a village populated by monsters led by a weird innkeeper (Patrick Magee). You'll meet some interesting people and hear some great songs at The Monster Club ¡ .
Great cast as Vincent Price and John Carradine star this ordinary antology picture in which a writer of horror stories nicely played by John Carradine is invited to a "monster club" by a mysterious old gentleman ironically performed by Vincent Price . Amicus last portmanteau movie that simply slaps down its thrilling and terrifying tales , butressing with dreary slabs of plot and chatter, concluding into eerie results . Formed by three segments , all of them are filled with mystery , suspense , terror , grisly killings , twisted events and horrible happenings . The British star-studded results to be pretty good with a plethora of notorious actors such as : Barbara Kellerman , Simon Ward , Geoffrey Bayldon, Donald Pleasence , Britt Ekland , Anthony Valentine , Neil McCarthy , Stuart Whitman , Lesley Dunlop , Patrick Magee , among others . There , at a discoteque in which music bands are performing songs take place the meeting between Vincent Price and John Carradine , subsequently three gruesome stories are told ; between each story some musicians play their songs . Featuring songs by Night B.A. Robertson , The Pretty Things and the Viewers . And soundtrack music by John Williams , UB 40 , and The Expressos . Each story harbours an ingeniously creepy and ghoulish conceit and at the end each tale takes place a grand guignol climax.
The motion picture was professionally directed by the British horrormeister Roy Ward Baker, though another terror specialist director, Freddie Francis, was the original choice to shot. However the movie never secured theatrical distribution in the US instead the movie was sold for regional television and in the UK , the picture attained a limited theatrical release . In ¨Monster Club¨ Roy Ward Baker emphasising the frightening , dramatic and suspenseful possibilities . Being final theatrical film of director Roy Ward Baker . Roy directed a great number of films . During World War II, he worked in the Army Kinematograph Unit under Eric Ambler, a writer and film producer, who, after the war, gave Baker his first opportunity to direct a film, The October Man (1947). He then went to Hollywood in 1952 and stayed for seven years, returning to Britain in 1958, when he directed one of his best films, A night to remember (1958) . During the 1960s and 1970s , Baker directed a number of horror films for Hammer and Amicus. He also directed in British television, especially during the latter part of his career . Deemed to be a terror expert, as proved in The monster club , Mask of death , And now the screaming starts, The legend of the 7 gold vampire s, Asylum , Dr Jekill and his sister Hyde , The scars of Dracula , The vampire lovers, The anniversary . Roy Baker also directed some Hollywood fims such as : Inferno, House in the square, A night to remember, Don't bother to knock, and Night with sleep . Rating : acceptable and passable. 6/10. Worthwhile watching.
