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Nice effects though.

Fresh and Exciting

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Lamberto Bava must have made "A cena col vampiro" ("Dinner with the Vampire" in English) for fun. The plot follows some young people who get invited to a director's castle, only to discover that he's actually an ancient vampire who wants them to murder him. The movie contains typical '80s music and a butler whom one of the youths calls Marty Feldman (he seriously does look like Feldman).The copy of this movie that I saw appears to be a copy of a copy. To crown everything, this copy even has Greek subtitles! As somebody fascinated by etymology, I always looked for words easy to recognize from scientific prefixes.Otherwise, there's nothing really significant about this movie. George Hilton has certainly done better.If in fact any Greek watched this copy, would s/he know who Marty Feldman was?

Dinner with a Vampire (1988) BOMB (out of 4) Italian horror film about some actors who goes to an old castle thinking they're going to be filming a horror movie but instead they meet a vampire who just happens to be hungry. I think Lamberto Bava has taken some unfair heat over the decades due to him not being as great as his father but I think he has managed some good films and a masterpiece in Demons. This here is certainly the worst film I've seen from him, the worst Italian horror film from this period and perhaps the worst vampire film. I really, really, really hated this movie from start to finish and was ready to claw my eyes out by the time we finally get to the ending. The entire film is just downright stupid and corny from start to finish and I'm sure this was meant as a horror/comedy but neither aspects work. The laughs are lame and the horror silly. There's a few minor gore scenes but nothing to get worked up over. The performances are all bad as is the direction for Bava doesn't show any of the style he usually brings to a film.

My only regret is that one cannot grade a movie on IMDb with a 0. "A Cena..." would definitely deserve that! At LEAST.*SPOILER?* The movie starts with a bunch of people entering a crypt to awaken an ancient Vampire. When a guy cuts himself and his blood drips and falls onto the putrid and dried corpse that is supposed to be a bloodsucker, the metamorphosis takes place and the Vampire, in an ANIMATION-like effect (would you believe it!), quickly takes on a more human form,only to reveal that he's wearing a tux and a bow-tie! A BOW-TIE, yes. Red, if my memory serves me right! I tried to check out random scenes by skipping through a bit, but it did not get any better than the opening sequences. That's the point when I turned the movie off, cursing it for having made me hope to see a Vampire movie. This is surely not one,unless you're 5 and could take such stupidity seriously.So, if you like Vampires and don't want to feel revolted or even disgusted,learn from my mistake and don't even try to see this garbage!

The basic plot-idea of this modest, made-for-TV horror comedy is fairly ingenious and involves a 4000-year-old vampire who's tired of his immortal life as a bloodsucker and wishes to eternally lay his soul to rest. Pretending to hold auditions for a new horror movie, he entices four young actors to his mansion but then challenges them to destroy him before the break of down. If they fail, he will kill them instead and then they too are doomed to live the boring life of vampires. Writer/director Lamberto Bava is infamous for his gross horror productions ("Demons", "A Blade in the Dark") but this merely is a harmless and light-headed quickie, meant for those who really want to see every Italian horror film ever made. There's almost no bloodshed or tension in the script and vampires look comical instead of scary. Still, I enjoyed watching "Dinner with a Vampire" because there's not one dull moment and it was great seeing George Hilton in a leading horror role again. Fans of Italian gialli-thrillers will definitely remember his face from classic titles such as "The Case of the Bloody Iris", "The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh" and "My Dear Killer". The sequences in the mansion's crypt and cellars are mildly atmospheric and the music is quite cheerful. Don't watch this film in case you're allergic to awful dubbing, though…The English voices often are so dull they give you headaches.