Although released in 1971 'Countess Dracula' could have been made as a warning to our society and it's obsession with youth and beauty. Based on the life of Elizabeth Báthory a Hungarian Countess of the late 1500s. How based it is would be for historians to argue not this reviewer.
The opening scene of this Hammer horror shows how much of a bitch the countess causing the death of a peasant this is followed up by arranging the kidnapping of her own daughter and the brut...al murder of many women.
Being a Hammer horror of the early seventies it has a large dose of tantalizing cleavage and flashes of boob. To a prepubescent this aspect of Hammer was very appealing and made them a must watch.
Little did I realize in my thrill at Ingrid Pitt's curves that forty years later I would re watch and see it as an allegory of the modern world. Bathing in a virgins blood to regain youthful looks might appeal to the rich and famous of today. Except for the fact it does need to be a sacrifice, I would be expect to be seeing adverts on the net for the young to give blood. Unless that is why there was a spate of third world child adoption a few years back! I shudder at the thought
The opening scene of this Hammer horror shows how much of a bitch the countess causing the death of a peasant this is followed up by arranging the kidnapping of her own daughter and the brut...al murder of many women.
Being a Hammer horror of the early seventies it has a large dose of tantalizing cleavage and flashes of boob. To a prepubescent this aspect of Hammer was very appealing and made them a must watch.
Little did I realize in my thrill at Ingrid Pitt's curves that forty years later I would re watch and see it as an allegory of the modern world. Bathing in a virgins blood to regain youthful looks might appeal to the rich and famous of today. Except for the fact it does need to be a sacrifice, I would be expect to be seeing adverts on the net for the young to give blood. Unless that is why there was a spate of third world child adoption a few years back! I shudder at the thought
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