Totally unhistorical *SPOILERS*

Well, the movie was well shot and acted but why did it have to pretend to be about Elisabeth Bathory? There is no historical basis for almost nothing in this film. Where do I begin?

Let's start with the biggie. There was no mention or hint of an affair between Imre Thurzo and Elisabeth Bathory. Just do the arithmetic: Imre Thurzo was born in 1589. Bathory lost her husband in 1604. He was 15 then. He was 21 (as he says in their first meeting) in 1610, one year before her trial, and four years before she died. It was his father, Gyorgi, who raided her castle under the command of King Matthias.

There was no bathing in blood (the trial minutes, translated in English available in several books) don't mention anything about this.

It is true that she killed most girls between 1604-1610, after the death of her husband, but the killings started well before her husband died and so had nothing to do with her aging.

The manservant who was helping her bury the bodies was not mute or dumb. He was a dwarf and highly intelligent. There were three women servants on trial, not just two; one was freed. And the two were not strangled; they were burned like witches.

Finally the killings did not just take place in Cachtice only, but at least in five different locations where she had castles and manors, including in her house in Vienna in the Augustinerstrasse.

If Delpy wants to make a fictional film about a deranged countess, fine, but please don't pretend it was based on Bathory's life.