Dinner with a Vampire


Dinner with a Vampire 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

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. Only four would be completed and released. These included Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death, The Ogre and Dinner with a Vampire. The films were shot between 1987 and 1988. Dinner with a Vampire was shot at Castle Sammezzano near Florence, Italy.
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.

Release

Prior to its television premiere in Italy, Dinner with a Vampire was released in Japan by Humax on April 22, 1989. It aired on Italian television channel Italia 1 on August 29, 1989.