Dinner with a Vampire

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. 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. == References ==