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.
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| Italian | A cena col vampiro[1] |
| Genre | Horror[2] |
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| Story by | Luciano Martino[1] |
| Directed by | Lamberto Bava[1] |
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| Country of origin | Italy |
| Original language | Italian |
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| Running time | 92 minutes[1][3] |
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| Network | Italia 1[3] |
| Release | August 29, 1989 |
Plot
editFour 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
edit- George Hilton as Jurek
- Riccardo Rossi as Gianni
- Patrizia Pellegrino as Rita
- Yvonne Sciò as Monica
- Valeria Milillo as Sasha
- Isabel Russinova as Veronica, Jurek's half vampire companion
- Daniele Aldrovandi as Gilles
- Igor Zalewsky as Ale
- Letizia Ziaco as Nadia
- Stefano Sabelli as Matteo
- Roberto Pedicini as a director
Production
editFollowing 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 films 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.[4]
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.[4]
Release
editPrior to its television premiere in Italy, Dinner with a Vampire was released in Japan by Humax on April 22, 1989.[5] It aired on Italian television channel Italia 1 on August 29, 1989.[1][3]
References
editFootnotes
editSources
edit- "バンパイア 最後の晩餐". Kinema Junpo (in Japanese). Archived from the original on August 29, 2024. Retrieved August 29, 2024.
- Buchanan, Jason. "Dinner With a Vampire". AllMovie. Archived from the original on March 30, 2019. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
- Curti, Roberto (2019). Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1980-1989. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476672434.
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