many year ago this reviewer subscribe to fantasy horror magazine starburst and then in it infancy and rival fangoria for it lurid colour photo of blood and gut and explode latex . one such issue cover new release the monster club and and to this 10 year old it look utterly brilliant and with it gallery of werewolf and vampire and ghoul . there be even a woman with a melty face . yet if pre teen have actually be allow to see it and they might have find it less impressive . the monster mask alone and fashion by freelance designer vic door and who also work at a milk processing plant and be laughable when compare with those from the mo eisley cantina just three year before lending understandable succour to the myth that they be make by producer milton subotsky milkman . amicus studio death rattle and and a homage to the 1970s glory year of it portmanteau horror and if the monster club have accrue a certain cult status it mostly down to it sheer awfulness while yet and bafflingly and the monster club and adapt from chetwynd hayes 1976 novel of the same name and do in fact boast a highly experienced and occasionally impressive pedigree . in director roy ward baker it have the man behind cult horror like the legend of the seven golden vampire and the vault of horror and asylum and and most famously and quatermass and the pit . a a screenwriter and amicus co founder subotsky have also pen a number of culty item and include i and monster and dr terror house of horror . cinematographer peter jessop have shoot the schlocky like of frightmare and venom and schizo . but most importantly and it star a real horror triumvirate of greatness represent vincent price and john carradine and donald pleasence along with veteran from past amicus film britt ekland and geoffrey bayldon ( here reprise an early role a an asylum keeper ) . this may have be make in 1980 and but tonight theyre go to party like it 1973. to a frightful new wave soundtrack supply by ub40 and ba robertson who sing i be just a sucker for your love . oh yes and a strange concoction indeed . but range against the like of classic amicus anthology such a from beyond the grave ( another chetwynd hayes miscellany ) even it dubious cult status be unwarranted although the song monster rule ok be pleasingly jaunty and and you do get to see vincent price and john carradine disco dance . in keep with the amicus tradition and the film feature a handful of not very creepy tale and plus a comedy story for light relief and link by a story within a story here play out between price vampire eramus ( his fang be retractable when not in use ) and horror writer chetwynd hayes himself and play by carradine . after neck his favourite author and eramus ferry him to his member club by way of an apology and where theyre subject to forget new wave band ( down at the monster club or a zombie and a ghoul can do the monster dub ) and along with every kind of monster you could ever imagine . and some far beyond the imagining of mere mortal which be just not true and unless youre actually incapable of imagine a one pound joke shop mask . price also induct him into the arcane mystery of monster genealogy and handily illustrate on a wall chart ( scroll away at leisure ) represent a vampire and a werewolf would produce a werevamp and but a werewolf and a ghoul would produce a weregoo . but a vampire and a ghoul would produce a vamgoo . a weregoo and a werevamp would produce a shaddy . now and a weregoo and a vamgoo would produce a maddy and but a werevamp and a vamgoo would produce a raddy . now and if a shaddy be to mate with a raddy or a maddy and the result would be a mock . once we have wad through that gibberish ( and how it must have pain the eloquent and mellifluous price to utter it ) we sample the delight of a stripper who take her performance all too literally and and be tell three tale and the first and most atmospheric of which be about a hadmock ( the lowest on the monster food chain ) who possess a deadly whistle the roger whittaker variety and not the referee aid . in the second and a vampire dad foil a vampire killer with . a stake proof vest . the final story concern a remote village of human munch ghoul . have convince the author of the inherent humanity of his kind ( there be nothing sadder than the agonised grief of a tender hearted monster ) and price counter that the real monster be human . and to that we must add and jaded screenwriter .