GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
"Strange Girls actually has more in common with Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures than, say, Halloween," writes Mike Everleth. "Like Pauline and Juliet in Jackson's film, Virginia and Georgia are working on an epic romance story and live more in...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Film News: 'Bathory' given cold shoulder -- The bloody medieval battle in the biggest-budget film in Slovak history, “Bathory,” is starting to look like just a warm-up amid contentions over the country's Oscar entry.
Foto Decadent (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Elizabeth I (The Virgin Queen) Alexandra Romanov (The Last Czarina) Catherine the Great (The Enlightened Empress) Elizabeth Bathory (The Countess of Blood) Christina of Sweden (The Androgynous Queen) Olympias (The Sorcerous) Cleopatra (The Seductress) Eleanor of Aquitaine (The Eagle) Agrippina (The Poisoness) Boudica (The Celtic Queen) Isabella of Spain (The Catholic) Marie Antoinette (The Extravagant...
The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
The Dilemma: The guy sitting next to you at the bar keeps insisting that John Wayne Gacy wasn’t a serial killer but a mass murderer, which is really creepy. But is he right? People You Can Impress: Authors of true crime novels and suckers for semantics. The Quick Trick: The creepy guy at the bar is full [...]
Sequenza21/ (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
John Adams - On the Transmigration of Souls Michael Gordon - The Sad Park Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: The Key of Locust Phil Kline - Vigil Elodie Lauten: S.O.S.W.T.C
MTV News (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
'You couldn't really dream something up as severe as his tale,' Dani Filth says of album's subject, Gilles de Rais. By Chris Harris Cradle of Filth Photo: Roadrunner Records More than a decade ago, while researching the life of Hungarian blood countess Elizabeth Báthory for his black-metal band's 1998 concept LP Cruelty and the Beast, Cradle of Filth frontman Dani Filth happened to come across some...
this ain't livin' (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
copyright meloukhia Astute readers may remember one of the authors of this book, Raymond McNally, from Dracula Was a Woman, a lurid quasi-history of Elizabeth Bathory. In fact, I recognized some of the material from aforementioned book in this one. I can’t decide if McNally just got into Bathory when he wrote the first edition [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/08/2008
And we've got a treat in store, says Gwladys Fouche. Stand by for not one but two hammy international biopics of a Hungarian aristo who bathed in the blood of virgins
Taliesin meets the vampires (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
Known, in its original French, as Contes Immoraux, this 1974 film directed by Walerian Borowzyk was made up of four erotic shorts that had an element of the grotesque or the taboo to them. Our reason for looking at this is that the third tale is based upon the tale of Countess Erzsébet Báthory (Paloma Picasso). Since reviewing Hammer’s Countess Dracula I have been of the opinion that anything with...
this ain't livin' (Free subscription) | 29/07/2008
copyright meloukhia Woah. Nelly. My nelly has been woah’ed. I might even go so far as to say “holy moly,” or perhaps even “jeepers.” We’re almost crossing the line into “criminy!” and “yipes!” Yes indeed, children, Dead Flowers for a Blue Lady is probably the most, ah, well, yeah. Let’s just say that it is [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
It was a great festival for movies -- and, of at least equal importance, surely lived up to its billing as the greatest summer party in Central Europe.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Film Reviews: Veteran Slovak helmer Juraj Jakubisko lets his imagination run wild in "Bathory."
PETER MARTINOVIC (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
I‘d like to draw your attention to the newest Slovak movie (well, in fact it is a co-production with mainly Czechs taking a major part in it). It’s called Bathory and it’s about a beautiful noble woman from Slovakia (then the Upper Hungary as a part of the Austrian Empire) who lived in the 17th century. Her name was Erszebet Bathory. She was a rich widow of a war hero, having more wealth than an emperor...
Taliesin meets the vampires (Free subscription) | 13/07/2008
I mentioned the biopic The Countess last year but it seems another Báthory related film has been in production. Entitled Báthory it stars Anna Friel and a trailer is embedded here .My gut reaction is that it is likely rather stylised (not necessarily a bad thing) and the embedded trailer offers a glimpse of the delectable Miss Friel blood bathing.
House of Eratosthenes (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
I didn’t know my serial killer trivia as well as I thought I did. The Story: Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian countess in the 16th century. Her husband was killed in the Long War, leaving her in charge of the family estate. During her reign, many young girls began to disappear… Capture: Local parish priests began to [...]
