Apr 27th  
The Monster Club   
(GB 1980)                 
ITC/Chips/Sword and Sorcery. 97m.         

A horror writer is invited to an underground disco club of horrors where he is related tales of other monsters and their victims who meet grisly ends.
Cut price and none-too-subtle horror comic compendium occasionally with atmospheric moments, and interminable modern musical interludes that were presumably intended to widen the audience.

Written by: Edward Abraham, Valerie Abraham, based on stories by R. Chetwynd-Hayes.
Producer: Milton Subotsky.
Director: Roy Ward Baker.
Starring: Vincent Price, John Carradine; Barbara Kellerman, James Laurenson, Simon Ward; Anthony Steel, Britt Ekland, Richard Johnson, Donald Pleasence; Stuart Whitman, Patrick Magee, Lesley Dunlop.
Photography: Peter Jessop.
Music: Douglas Gamley, John Georgiadis, Alan Hawkshaw.

+ Price’s closing speech proposing humans as members of the Monster Club:

“In the past 60 years ‘humes’ have exterminated over 150 million of their own kind. No effort has been spared to reach this astronomical figure, and the methods they have used must demand our unstinted admiration. You know, ‘humes’ began with some very serious disadvantages, but these they overcame with wonderful ingenuity. Not having a fang, or a claw, or even a whistle worth talking about, they invented guns and tanks and bombs and aeroplanes and extermination camps and poisoned gas and daggers and swords and bayonets and booby traps and atomic bombs and flying missiles, submarines! Warships! Aircraft carriers – and,  motor cars. They have even perfected a process, whereby, they can spread a lethal disease on any part of this planet! Not to say anything about nuclear power. Oh, during their short history, you know, ‘humes’ have subjected other ‘humes’ to death by: burning, hanging, decapitation, strangulation, electrocution, shooting, drowning, crushing, racking, disembowelling - and other methods far, far too revolting for the delicate stomachs of this august assembly.”

Preceded by:
A Contradiction*
(GB 2013.4m.; A separated husband remembers an incident with his wife in stored memories from different perspectives.; w: Edward Robinson, Phil Hurst, Steven Dorrington; d: Steven Dorrington; s: Tim Freeman, Nicola Goodchild, Phil Young; for Alma Films/Sci-London 48 Hour Challenge.)