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
Country of originItaly
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[3]
ReleaseAugust 29, 1989 (1989-08-29)

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Dinner with a Vampire (Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".) 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

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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

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Production

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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 films directed by Lamberto Bava.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Only four would be completed and released. These included Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death, The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". The films were shot between 1987 and 1988.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". Dinner with a Vampire was shot at Castle Sammezzano near Florence, Italy.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".

Italian film historian Roberto Curti described Dinner with a Vampire as being more openly a parody film compared to Bava's other films made for the series.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".

Release

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Prior to its television premiere in Italy, Dinner with a Vampire was released in Japan by Humax on April 22, 1989.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24". It aired on Italian television channel Italia 1 on August 29, 1989.Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter has terminated with signal "24".

References

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Footnotes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Curti 2019, p. 199.
  2. ^ Buchanan.
  3. ^ a b Curti 2019, p. 200.

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