Monster Club dvd

**Matt Gemmell** · 13th February 2003, 05:13 PM

Amicus' last anthology film , The Monster Club , will be released on dvd on June 6th . It will have trailers and an audio commentary.
Although it's far from Amicus' best it is the first time it will be available on dvd and , if you're a completist like me , you'll probably snap it up . It's worth it for the Stuart Whitman piece alone .

**Don Boycik** · 13th February 2003, 08:22 PM

that is one of Vincent price's worst films but thanxs for this info. i'm prob gonna get it anyways. why? i'm collecting his movies on dvd. another one of his that is so bad it's not even funny is THE Jackal from 1967.

13th February 2003, 08:50 PM

THE JACKAL is available on R1 DVD. No idea what it's like.

**Don Boycik** · 13th February 2003, 09:00 PM

here's the info about The Jackal. it's on a cheap labal the sound is horrible the picture is terrible also. the movie is boring and it's one of those movies you want to end that never seems to.
i believe that was the V. Price movie that was never released in any theatre i wonder why ? hehe if you want to buy it that's fine go and ahead and buy it i just bought it to add it to my collection of his movies. you prob can get it less than 10 bucks anywhere.
i got it for i think something like 6 bucks I think. i was expecting to be decent but i was dissapointed in it. but everyone has their own opinion so u might like it who knows?

**Dave Hutchens** · 13th February 2003, 11:45 PM

Haven't seen it since it first came out, and I have virtually no memory of it at all. Yeah, I'm one of those completists who'll snatch it up.

Now may I assume this is Region 1 also?

**Matt Gemmell** · 13th February 2003, 11:57 PM

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Haven't seen it since it first came out, and I have virtually no memory of it at all. Yeah, I'm one of those completists who'll snatch it up.

Now may I assume this is Region 1 also?

Dave you might be quite lucky not to remember too much of the movie as it is pretty bad .
The rock scenes at the club are painful to watch as are most of the linking scenes . What it does have going for it are some interesting stories particularly , as i said , the Stuart Whitman segment .
That and the fact that there's to be a commentary is enough for me . Oh , and it is only region 1 as far as I know .

Brandi · 14th February 2003, 12:46 AM

I remember the story ideas were actually pretty interesting but the film was sort of hamstrung by a budget that looked painfully thin even by Amicus standards. As Price put it in an interview:

"The stories were very good, and the thing with John (Carradine) and myself, the whole description of the monsters was funny, but the thing that went wrong with THE MONSTER CLUB, was that Milton Subotsky had found some man, who was a milkman, that had a hobby of making masks. Well he hired this fellow, and thought they would look great, but they're terrible, just terrible! It looks like amateur night. They really should have been wonderful, elaborate masks, that look real, but these look like some kid made them.

[Interviewer:] I guess he had a low budget.

Well you can have a low budget, but that doesn't mean that! You can still go out and rent them. The other thing was the rock `n roll music was no good. There were no good names. The stories were excellent though."

So I'd say don't pay too much to buy it, but it's definitely worth a rent for sheer oddity. The one time I caught it on TV I found it right enjoyable.