The Monster Club
The Monster Club is a 1980 British horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine. An anthology film, it is based on the works of the British horror author R. ChetwyndHayes. It was the final film from Milton Subotsky who was best known for his work with Amicus Productions Amicus were well known for their anthologies but this was not an Amicus film. It was also the final feature film directed by Baker.
A young, financially struggling woman Barbara Kellerman takes a job at a secluded manor house owned by Raven James Laurenson, a hybrid creature called a Shadmock, who leads a troubled and tragic existence and is notorious for its demonic whistle. As time goes by, the girl, Angela, develops a friendship with the mysterious Shadmock, named Raven, and he eventually proposes to her. Alarmed, Angela refuses but her controlling boyfriend Simon Ward forces her to go through with it to gain the Shadmocks vast wealth. At the night of the engagement party, Angela is caught robbing the Shadmocks safe, and screams that she could never love him. Heartbroken, the Shadmock whistles and destroys Angelas face. Upon seeing her, her boyfriend is driven insane and locked away in an asylum.The timid son Warren Saire of a peaceable family of vampires lives a miserable, lonely life where he is bullied at school and his father Richard Johnson spends little time with him. The son discovers his father is a vampire, being relentlessly if ineptly hunted by a team of bureaucratic undeadkillers led by Pickering Donald Pleasence. The hunters break into the house and stake the vampire father, but the tables are turned when the father bites Pickering, meaning he will have to be staked by his own assistants. A chase ensues and Pickering is staked. After his men take his body away the timid son and his mother Britt Ekland return to the basement to find that the father faked his death using a stake proof vest filled with ketchup. ........
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