Poster of the Week! - Inspired by Curt's fantastic work feeding us all sorts of '70s era Dracula artifacts this month at his Groovy Age of Dracula (or Groovy Age of Horror), I offer this modest image of a British poster for the 1970 Hammer horror, Countess Dracula.
The film has nothing to do with Dracula, of course. It has something to do with Elizabeth Bathory, the real life monster who ordered the killing of more than 600 women and girls and bathed in their blood. Author Andrei Codrescu, who is also a descendent of the countess, wrote his first novel about her. Another descendent, Dennis Báthory-Kitsz, has composed an opera on Elizabeth Bathory, and also runs a fairly comprehensive site about Bathory and about his opera. A whole host of Bathory links can be found on the same site. For reviews of the movie (which, I confess, I haven't seen), you can go here, here, and here.Click on the image on the left for a larger image. 373K
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