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.
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] Only four would be completed and released. These included 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 for the series.[4]
Release
Prior 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]
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