historically based fiction?

ok, gotta love google. I typed in "blood virgins bathed young"

she was an hungarian countess in the 16th and 17th century...


here's a blurb from the wiki article on her...

Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová(-Nádašdy in Slovak), August 7?, 1560 – August 21, 1614), the Bloody Lady of Čachtice, was a Hungarian countess who lived in the Čachtice Castle near Trenčín, in present-day Slovakia.

She is considered the most famous serial killer in Slovak and Hungarian history. She spent most of her life at the Čachtice Castle, and dabbled in the occult. After her husband's death, she and her four alleged collaborators were accused of torturing and killing between 600 and 700 girls and young women. In 1611, she was imprisoned in solitary confinement, where she stayed until her death three years later. Her nobility allowed her to avoid an immediate execution. However, three of her four alleged collaborators were put to death.

The Bathory case inspired many stories, featuring the Countess bathing in her victims' blood in order to retain her youth. This inspired another nickname, the "Blood Countess".


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory


here is another link on info on her....

http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/bathory.html

and a 1970's horror movie based specifically on her [imdb page]...

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0065580/


I really enjoy the hellboy series and comic, haven't seen the other animated one that's currently out yet but I can't wait to see that, this and hellboy 2 coming out in 08...

ron pearlman really makes a good hellboy...

he's already got the brow and jaw plus the gravely deep voice and the inherient boredom and sadness he plays hellboy as just really nails it for me.

I'm glad they continued making hellboy movies both animated and live action, the first one didn't do to well and to be honest wasn't the best but it was a good solid treatment of hellboy that can really be improved upon, so I have high hopes of it.

I always did enjoy the crazy mixing up of historical characters. {i mean rasputin and the nazis? lol...}

Yeah, Countess Bathory has been a staple of horror films, fiction and "real vampire"-type histories for awhile now--usually being presented as a female counterpart to Vlad "the Impaler" Dracul, though his bloodier deeds were politically motivated while hers seem to have been done solely of her own twisted vanity and belief in dark magick. Even Raymond McNally (of "In Search of Dracula" fame) wrote a quickie book about her called "Dracula Was a Woman".
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Hey,

Yes, the vanity and youth obsessed Countess Elizabeth Bathory from Hungary. She's been the villain in numerous movies, most notably the Hammer Horror film COUNTESS DRACULA with Ingrid Pitt. She also has a sly little cameo in Eli Roth's HOSTEL PART II...

For a long time of human history, rich people could do almost anything they wanted to poor people and get away with it. Countess Elizabeth Báthory is not the only or worse one.

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