‘The Blood Countess’ Acquired by Strand for 2027 Theatrical Release
Strand Releasing has acquired The Blood Countess, the hotly anticipated horror mystery thriller starring Isabelle Huppert (Greta) as a 16th-century vampire, and will […]
Strand Releasing has acquired The Blood Countess, the hotly anticipated horror mystery thriller starring Isabelle Huppert (Greta) as a 16th-century vampire, and will release it in theaters next spring, reports Variety.
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.
Huppert plays the Countess Elizabeth Báthory (aka ‘The Blood Countess’) 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 synopsis reads.
It features an all-star European cast, including Birgit Minichmayr (Everyone Else), Lars Eidinger (Jay Kelly), Thomas Schubert (Afire) and André Jung (The Forger).
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.
