Dinner with a Vampire

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Dinner with a Vampire
DVD cover
ItalianA cena col vampiro[1]
GenreHorror[2]
Screenplay by
Story byLuciano Martino[1]
Directed byLamberto Bava[1]
Starring
Composers
Original languageItalian
Production
Executive producers
  • Massimo Manasse
  • Marco Grillo Spina[1]
Cinematography
  • Gianlorenzo Battaglia
  • Gianfranco Transunto[1]
Editors
  • Mauro Bonnani
  • Daniele Alabis[1]
Running time92 minutes[1][3]
Production companies
  • Dania Film
  • Reteitalia[1]
Original release
NetworkItalia 1[4]
ReleaseAugust 29, 1989 (1989-08-29)

Dinner with a Vampire (Italian: A cena col vampiro) is a 1989 Italian television horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and written by Dardano Sacchetti. It was among four films made for the Italian television series Brivido Giallo.

Plot

Four actors win an audition to be in a horror movie and travel to the director's castle for a meeting and to spend the night. Unbeknown to them the director is actually a vampire. The vampire challenges his guests to kill him. Killing this vampire however is achieved only in a unique way.

Cast

Production

Following the success of the film Demons and Demons 2 and other foreign horror films in Italy, the company Reiteitalia would announce in July 1986 that a series titled Brivido giallo which would be made featuring five made-for-television film directed by Lamberto Bava.[3] Of these films only four would be made: Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death, The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire.[3] The films were shot between 1987 and 1988.[3] Dinner with a Vampire was shot at Castle Sammezzano near Florence, Italy.[5]

Italian film historian Roberto Curti described Dinner with a Vampire as being more openly a parody film compared to Bava's other films made in the series.[5]

Release

Dinner with a Vampire was shown was aired on Italia 1 on August 29, 1989.[1][3]

References

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Curti 2019, p. 199.
  2. ^ Buchanan, Jason. "Dinner With a Vampire". AllMovie. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e Curti 2019, p. 200.
  4. ^ Curti 2019.
  5. ^ a b Curti 2019, p. 201.

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