morrison-dylan-fan Despite having heard about her for years,I have somehow never caught a glimpse of Ingrid Pitt,which led to me deciding that it was time to meet the Countess.The plot:Attending the reading of her husbands will, Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy is sickened to find out that her husband has not left anything solely for her. Furiously pushing a maid aside, Nádasdy accidentally causes the maid's face to get cut. Splattered with blood, Nádasdy is shocked to find that the maid's virginal blood causes her to look decades younger.Killing the maid, Elisabeth decides to keep her daughter Ilona hidden from view,so that she can pretend to be her own daughter,as Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy thrust for purity grows.View on the film:Filmed on sets originally built for Anne of the Thousand Days,co- writer/(along with Jeremy Paul/ Alexander Paal & Gabriel Ronay) director Peter Sasdy and cinematographer Kenneth Talbot use restrained tracking shots to show the decaying walls of Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy's palace,with Sasdy also using very stylish reflective flames to show the pit that Elisabeth is placing herself in.Taking inspiration from Valentine Penrose's book The Bloody Countess,the screenplay attempts to cross Hammer Horror chills with elegant Costume Drama.Whilst the movie does well at continuing the studios major theme of the rich being the real monsters,the writers fail to build any sense of terror,due to any Horror edges being filed down by a disappointingly plodding Costume Drama elements.Despite getting her voiced dubbed over by Olive Gregg, (which led to her never talking to Sasdy again)the alluring Ingrid Pitt gives a wonderful performance as Countess Elisabeth Nádasdy,with Pitt creating a deep contrast between the "young" & old (which involved Pitt having to spend 3 hours getting the impressive make up effects on) Elisabeth,thanks to Pitt showing old Elisabeth to be a burnt out, psychotic witch,who tries to keep her old dark blood lust under wraps by transforming into a glamorous beauty,which leads to Elisabeth becoming a murderous youth in revolt.

BatBanks Smith An insane countess discover her own fountain of youth, while bathing in blood of virgin. The women and took an identity of her own daughter (who she kidnapping) to be with a young man. This based on the real Elisabeth Bathory.The movie has nothing do with vampire and the movie is unpleasant. I don't like the voice dubbed of the late Ingrid Pitt. The acting was mediocre; The Countess is a real cougar and she seems to be jealousy/hated by her own daughter (Lesley-Anne Down); The scene of the wedding when she turn back into old ugly woman and so desperately to be young again she tried to kill her own daughter in front everyone (she is crazy!!!). Instead of kill the young man she tried to marry. I hated this movies it down right terrible you should just watch another movie about Elisabeth Bathory.

smatysia Well. I am unfamiliar with the Hammer series, and so have nothing to add about that. This film was a bit of a disappointment. Yes, there were scenes of a lush countryside, and medieval costumes. There was some good acting (Nigel Green, Andrea Lawrence) and some so-so performances (Maurice Denham, Lesley-Anne Down). The direction was uninspiring, yet unobtrusive. I suppose the problem must lie in the writing. The main character, Countess Elizabeth Nodosheen (Ingrid Pitt) was of zero redeeming value. She invites the viewer's contempt, but other characters, such as Captain Dobi (Green) were little better. It isn't so much that characters are evil, but that they were (the unforgivable cinematic sin) boring.

JoeB131 Loosely based on the story of Elisabeth Bathory, it is about an evil countess who murders young virgins to restore her youth in their blood. The countess seduces the young son of her late husband's war buddy, while trying to cheat her daughter out of her inheritance by having her locked up by a peasant lackey.It's a fun, graphic, bloody mess with copious amounts of sex and violence, just the thing that put Hammer on the map when Hollywood was being so prude.Pitt's character is both sympathetic and contemptible, which makes the story work reasonably well.