I am a sucker for a good Bathory movie. Or even a bad one. This is not a bad one, but it is an odd one. There are some genuine horrific scenes, but nor really enough to really be called horror.
Much like the Julie Delpy movie The Countess, this is a retelling of the Bathory tale to put the countess in a better light. I think The Countess is a better overall movie, but Anna Friel from Báthory: Countess of Blood is a better Bathory.
I think if both movies and casts had pooled their resources together one really great movie could have been made.
There are few things about the movie I didn't care for. The monks with the "roller skates" (no. really) annoyed me. The whole absinthe bit was way over done. In fact I pretty have never seen an absinthe scene in a vampire movie and wasn't pretty crappy. I blame the Bram Stoker's Dracula movie.
Not an unenjoyable movie, but at 2 hours and 21 minutes it is a bit too long.
Tally so far: 32 Total Watched / 21 New
What do you find scary?
October Horror Movie Challenge hosted by Krell Laboratories.
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