The Killer Reserved Nine Seats | |
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Directed by | Giuseppe Bennati |
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Cinematography | Giuseppe Aquari [1] |
Edited by | Luciano Anconetani [1] |
Music by | Carlo Savina [1] |
Production company | Cinenove [2] |
Distributed by | Overseas Film Company |
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Running time | 104 minutes [2] |
Country | Italy [2] |
Box office | ₤427.544 million |
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (Italian : L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone) is a 1974 Italian giallo film directed by Giuseppe Bennati.
Patrick Davenant invites a group of friends to visit a theatre inside his villa, a place which later reveals itself as sinister. Within a short time, the guests realise that they are trapped in the villa. A merciless killer then begins to murder them one by one.
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats was distributed by Overseas Film Company theatrically in Italy on 21 May 1974. [2] The film grossed 427,544,000 Italian lira domestically in Italy. [2]
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