Hungary's Countess Erszebet Bathory, the 16-century royal psychopath whose beauty regimen included bathing in the blood of hundreds of virgins, has been sadly underrepresented in horror movies. True, her dark shadow has fallen over such lesbian-vampire classics as DAUGHTERS OF DARKNESS (1970) and COUNTESS DRACULA (1971), but her filmography is nothing compared to those of her mad, bad and very dangerous to know brethren Vlad the Impaler and Gilles de Rais, the inspirations behind all those Dracula and Bluebeard movies. Luckily, writer-directors Wilhelm Liebenberg and Federico Sanchez help redress this terrible wrong with this stylishly kinky exercise in blood-soaked ...
Released:
2005
Rated:
NR
Length:
108 mins