The Monster Club (1981) on Netflix
NR19811h 38mComedyHorrorMusical
On a London street, a starving vampire named Eramus bites a horror writer and takes him to the Monster Club, a gathering place for creatures of the night. Eramus tells three stories.
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Plot summary
Eramus, a starving vampire, bites a horror writer on a London street and, grateful for the small donation, brings the bewildered man to the Monster Club, a hidden gathering place for creatures of the night. Between the musical and dance turns performed there, Eramus narrates three tales about his fellow monsters. In the first, Angela, a young woman short of money, takes a job at the secluded manor of Raven, a Shadmock known for a deadly whistle. The second follows Lintom, the timid son in a family of vampires, whose father is hunted by a team of undead-killers led by Pickering. The third follows Sam, an American film director scouting locations, who arrives in Loughville, a village whose residents keep him from leaving.
Cast
- Warren Saireas Lintom
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Monster Club (1981)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Christopher Lee was the first choice to play R. Chetwynd-Hayes but turned the part down flat the moment his agent told him the film's title. Peter Cushing also refused a role in The Monster Club, though he went on to work with director Roy Ward Baker on the TV film The Masks of Death.
- Director Roy Ward Baker said the finished film sat on ice for a year before anyone showed it, so the pop bands he had filmed performing between the stories were hopelessly out of date and added no value. He guessed the distributors simply forgot they had it.
- The Monster Club was the final film from producer Milton Subotsky, best known for the Amicus Productions horror anthologies, and the last feature film directed by Roy Ward Baker.
- In 1980, before the film itself was shot, the script was turned into a 25-page comic by Dez Skinn, John Bolton and David Lloyd as a promotional tool, published in a one-off Monster Club magazine and later reprinted in Halls of Horror in 1983.
