Dinner with a Vampire

Italian 1989 horror film by Lamberto Bava

Dinner with a Vampire
DVD cover

Italian	A cena col vampiro^[1]

Genre	Horror^[2]
Screenplay by	Dardano Sacchetti Lamberto Bava^[1]
Story by	Luciano Martino^[1]
Directed by	Lamberto Bava^[1]
Starring	George Hilton Patrizia Pellegrino Riccardo Rossi
Composers	Simon Boswell Mario Tagliaferri^[1]
Country of origin	Italy
Original language	Italian
Production
Executive producers	Massimo Manasse Marco Grillo Spina^[1]
Cinematography	Gianlorenzo Battaglia Gianfranco Transunto^[1]
Editors	Mauro Bonnani Daniele Alabis^[1]
Running time	92 minutes^[1]^[3]
Production companies	Dania Film Reteitalia^[1]
Original release
Network	Italia 1^[3]
Release	August 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

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

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.^[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]