Stunning ‘Blood Countess’ Poster Drenches Isabelle Huppert in Red

The new The Blood Countess poster is striking, provocative, and impossible to ignore.

Dread shares this stunning artwork for the hotly anticipated horror-mystery-thriller, featuring Isabelle Huppert (Greta) drenched in red, obviously symbolizing the Bathory horror story.

In The Blood Countess, Huppert stars as Countess Elizabeth Báthory, a 16th-century vampire, as she awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld.

“She and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. The book, if found and read by the vampire’s enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale.”

The film, directed by renowned German New Wave artist and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, is the latest retelling of the story of Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory, a real-life aristocrat accused of bathing in the blood of virgins to retain her youth.

Notes THR: “Julie Delpy played a version of Báthory in 2009 feature The Countess; Anna Friel in the 2008 historical drama Bathory, and Maria Kalinina in the 2006 slasher horror Stay Alive, in which the spirit of the blood countess haunts a survival video game.

“This iteration of the story promises to be more high-brow, with a script from Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, the acclaimed Nobel Prize-winning author of The Piano Teacher (which also starred Huppert). The Blood Countess was a hot pre-sales title at Berlin last year. Magnify is handling international sales.”