The Monster Club is a 1981 British anthology horror film directed by Roy Ward Baker and starring Vincent Price and John Carradine.

A fictionalised version of author R. Chetwynd-Hayes is approached on a city street by a strange man who turns out to be a starving vampire named Erasmus.

Erasmus bites the writer, and in gratitude for the small "donation", takes his (basically unharmed but bewildered) victim to the titular club, which is a covert gathering place for a multitude of supernatural creatures.

A young, financially struggling woman takes a job at a secluded manor house owned by Raven, a hybrid creature called a Shadmock, who leads a troubled and tragic existence and is notorious for its demonic whistle.

The timid son of a peaceable family of vampires lives a miserable, lonely life where he is bullied at school and his father spends little time with him.

After his men take his body away, the timid son and his mother return to the basement to find that the father faked his death using a stake-proof vest filled with tomato ketchup.

A movie director scouting locations for his next film pays a horrifying visit to an isolated, decrepit village, Loughville, where the sinister residents refuse to let him leave.

Whilst in the church, the director discovers the terrifying truth of Loughville; centuries before, a swarm of ghouls invaded the village, mated with the humans, and made their nest there.

Christopher Lee was originally sought for the role of Chetwynd-Hayes, but flatly turned the offer down simply upon hearing the film's title from his agent.

[6] Chetwynd-Hayes was disappointed with the film, finding the humour silly, disliking the script and how his original stories were changed (he said only Ghoulsville was faithful), and hating the pop music.