Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008) on Netflix
R20082h 21mBiographyDramaFantasy
Countess Erzsébet Báthory runs a hospital beneath her castle, where she performs experiments and autopsies. A reputed witch, Darvulia, saves her from poisoning, while local women begin dying.
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Plot summary
Erzsébet Báthory is a Hungarian countess of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, living in territory that now belongs to Slovakia. In this retelling she works as a healer, performing experiments and simple autopsies in a hospital under her castle. A reputed witch, Darvulia, rescues her from poisoning and remains at her side, holding out the promise of a son and lasting beauty in exchange for her love and her reputation. Meanwhile, young women around her die of causes that appear unconnected, and Erzsébet is observed in a bath of red liquid while the mutilated bodies of the girls are buried close by.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bathory: Countess of Blood (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Famke Janssen was announced in late January 2006 to play Báthory, with her first appearance planned for 6 March; around 8 March news agencies reported that she had been replaced by the English actress Anna Friel.
- With a budget of 10 million EUR, around 15 million US dollars, Bathory became the most expensive Slovak film ever made and the second most expensive Czech film.
- The Bathory legend had already reached the screen decades earlier in Walerian Borowczyk's 1973 film Immoral Tales, where her story formed the third of four vignettes, one of which adapted an 18th-century pornographic novel.
- Bathory was Juraj Jakubisko's first English-language film, an international co-production between the cinemas of Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary and the United Kingdom.
