The Killer Reserved Nine Seats 1974 123movies

Watch: L’assassino ha riservato nove poltrone 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – A very rich Englishman of ancient nobility, Patrick Davenant, on the evening of his birthday, invites some friends to visit the old theater located in the family palace and which has been closed for a hundred years, since a family had remained there closed and had entirely perished there. The protagonists of the tragic night are: Rebecca, Patrick’s sister, with Doris her close friend. Lynn daughter of the same with boyfriend Duncan. Viviana first wife of Patrick, with the current husband Dr. Dalbert; Kim starlets engaged to the landlord, with her lover Russel. As soon as the party, to which a mysterious character has to be added, accompanied by a guru, enters the room, all the doors close; then begins a chain of crimes and horrors that Patrick almost ritually commits, according to a centuries-old curse..
Plot: A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn’t fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
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Definitely not a masterpiece, but still interesting
Interesting, although not completely well-made, example of the Italian supernatural thriller, “L’assassino ha riservato nove poltrone” is a movie that suffers from a lot of shortcomings, but still it moves and after all convinces the spectator. It has to its credit the well-built atmosphere of discomfort and psychological perversion, the good art direction and the costumes. The script suffers from a lot of holes and clear improbabilities, but still it can hold the spectator’s breath with a plot that is quite original, although the spooky theater under a curse is a fairly recurrent element in the tradition of Italian horror (I remember Renato Polselli’s “Il mostro dell’Opera”, Michele Soavi’s “Deliria”, as well as the well known “Opera” and “Il fantasma dell’Opera”, directed by Dario Argento). Apart from this, there’s a good dose of pleasant and sexy female nudes and the usual lesbian background to whom no Italian thriller can renounce. Taking everything into consideration, I can say this is a quite good movie, charmingly rough in the development of the plot, in the direction and in the acting (all the actors are habitué of the popular genres of Italian cinema), but it’s also an interesting and amusing movie you can enjoy.

night of the Hunter
“L’Assassino ha riservato nove poltrone”(The killer reserved nine seats) is one of those films that stayed with me.

I’ve seen a copy with Greek subtitles. According to IMDb, the film has a running time of 99 minutes and this copy I’ve ordered runs around 92 minutes. So 7 minutes were cut out from the original film and now maybe the cut footage is lost forever. The DVD was visibly taken from a VHS tape and even if the colors are a bit drab and the images sometimes a bit jittery, the film is still quite watchable. Anyway it would be wonderful to see the film in a restored and remastered edition (uncut if possible).

The film drew inspiration from Agatha Christie’s Ten Little Indians” – Ten people are invited to an abandoned theater in an out-of-the-way place. The theater looms gigantic in the night when they arrive. A sense of foreboding underlined by the soundtrack creeps in. These people know each other and are linked by love/hate relationships – greed, love, sex, bitterness are their companions. The camera shows the chandeliers, the pictures on the wall show faces were luxury and greed meet, the decors…. Everything takes us back to a glorious past – lust, grandeur, suffering, intrigues … – all gone now….

The killings begin. Where is the killer hiding? Long corridors, dressing rooms, the backstage, the imposing stairs that lead to upper floors…. Is He or She one of them? Later on we get to know that there’s a family curse hanging over the theater. Are supernatural forces at work? This is a very atmospheric thriller in which the camera and the soundtrack work well together. The story somehow doesn’t make much sense. The behavior of the characters (like other reviewers already pointed out) is far from logical. They wander alone in badly lit corridors, enter dark rooms, almost like they were inviting the killer to take care of them. And the killer is very, very sadistic.

The action of the “The killer reserved nine seats” takes place during the night. It’s a “long night’s journey into day”, but it’s a day that maybe no one will reach alive (as one of the characters dejectedly says). The film is tense and claustrophobic, but also lighthearted and ironical, like all good gialli. There are also the moments of sleaze, something very good to release the tension – the women undress themselves whenever they can, and there’s also a lesbian couple among the lot: Rosanna Schiaffino, Paola Senatore, Lucretia Love, Eva Czemerys, Janet Agren – take your pick. There’s a moment of surrealistic sleaze that would have made even Buñuel take his hat off – many people had already been knocked off and what Paola Senatore does? She puts on some music, takes off her clothes, and dances semi-naked in front of a mirror. What?! Well, anyway I enjoyed the scene a lot. Thanks, Paola!

Something that I want to stress again is the atmosphere conveyed by the film – the characters and decors, underlined by the imaginative soundtrack, seem to join their hands to paint a picture of lust, desire, decadence and tired joie-de-vivre. One can go back to the time when some Italian renaissance masters were able to portray luxury and ambiguity living together with virtue (whatever that means:).

“The killer reserved nine seats” is an interesting film that deserves more recognition and to be presented to the public in a restored and remastered edition. It’s creative, bizarre and intriguing. It’s certainly not a run-of-the-mill giallo. It’s a worthy film to check out.

Other Information:

Original Language it
Runtime 1 hr 44 min (104 min), 1 hr 39 min (99 min) (Italy)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Director Giuseppe Bennati
Writer Giuseppe Bennati, Paolo Levi, Biagio Proietti
Actors Rosanna Schiaffino, Chris Avram, Eva Czemerys
Country Italy
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
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Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
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Negative Format 35 mm
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Printed Film Format 35 mm