I admit that I am not a great fan of horror movies, but for me the ones from the 1970s and 1980s were the best of them all.
It begins with vampir Eramus (played by Vincent Price, a veteran of the genre) that invites writer Chetwynd-Hayes (played by John Carradine in one of his MANY movies) to a monster club, full of various vampires, witches and other un-natural beings. And they share three horror stories:
1) Two swindlers (played by Simon Ward and Barbara Kellerman) decide to take advantage of a recluse, with disastrous (and scary) results. Because the
recluse is a shadmock
2) A little boy discovers that is the son of a vampire, and while three vampire hunters led by clergyman Donald Pleasence break at the kid's home, his father bites Pleasence and soon he gets staked by his assistants while the vampire dad faked his death. Richard Johnson and Britt Ekland are also good.
3) (My personal favourite) Sam, a film director (played by Stuart Whitman) visits some locations for his next film, and ends in an horrifing village inhabited by ghouls (corpse-eating monsters). Sam meets a girl named Luna, and she advices him to hide in the church because ghouls can't enter in sacred places; soon Luna tries to help him escape, but she gets killed by ghouls and Sam is forced to return in the village by ghoul policemen.
In the end Chetwynd-Hayes is made a member of the Monster club. And Eramus admits that humans are the worst type of monsters.
Roy Ward Baker (in his horror swansong) is great as usual, and the actors all did a fine job. Kudos to Vincent Price in his only interpretation of a vampire!
