''The Killer Reserved Nine Seats'' ( it, L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone) is a 1974 Italian ''

giallo In Italian cinema, ''Giallo'' (; plural ''gialli'', from ''giallo'', Italian for yellow) is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers that often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, ...

'' film directed by

Giuseppe Bennati Giuseppe Bennati (4 January 1921 – 26 September 2006) was an Italian film director and writer. He directed ''Il microfono è vostro'' (1952), '' Musoduro'' (1954), ''L'amico del giaguaro'' (1958), ''Labbra rosse'' (1960), ''Congo vivo'' (1961) ...

Plot

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.

Cast

Rosanna Schiaffino Rosanna Schiaffino (25 November 1939 – 17 October 2009) was an Italian film actress. She appeared on the covers of Italian, German, French, British and American magazines. Early life She was born in Genoa, Liguria to a well-off family. Her mot ...

as Vivian *

Chris Avram Chris Avram (born Cristea Avram; August 31, 1931 – January 10, 1989) was a Romanian- Italian film actor. Early life and career Avram was born in Bucharest, into a family of active communists (his father being a member of the Romanian Communist ...

as Patrick Davenant *

Eva Czemerys Eva Czemerys (born 1940) is a German-born film actress, mainly active in Italy. Born in Munich to Russian parents, her family moved to Rome, Italy when she was only 1. She studied acting and debuted as the main actress in 1971 in ''Bella di giorno ...

as Rebecca Davenant * Lucretia Love as Doris * Paola Senatore as Lynn Davenant * Gaetano Russo as Duncan Foster * Andrea Scotti as Albert * Eduardo Filippone as Mystery Man * Antonio Guerra as Caretaker * Howard Ross as Russell * Janet Agren as Kim

Release

''The Killer Reserved Nine Seats'' was distributed by Overseas Film Company theatrically in Italy on 21 May 1974. The film grossed 427,544,000

Italian lira The lira (; plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. It was first introduced by the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy in 1807 at par with the French franc, and was subsequently adopted by the different states that would eventually ...

domestically in Italy.

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* * 1974 films Giallo films 1970s crime thriller films Films directed by Giuseppe Bennati Films scored by Carlo Savina 1970s Italian films {{crime-thriller-film-stub