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To me, this movie is perfection.

Good movie but grossly overrated

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

A long, rambling, shambling, doddering, staggering chaos of a film, blighted by (amongst other things): (1) impenetrable Middle European accents, most of them genuine but three put on ~ by Miss Friel, her husband, and her lover; (2) a narrative style that was very much like listening to a boring drunk recounting a shaggy dog story; (3) a schizoid attitude toward the countess herself ~ ambiguity is all very well, but to switch sides several times in the course of one story just makes the storyteller appear 'flakey'; (4) a sub-plot about two spying monks which ... well, which beggared description in its absurdity; (5) visual imagery and editing which frequently resembled pop videos; (6) so on and so forth.

I was very disappointed in this movie. I won't give away the plot, so I won't comment on the actual content of the movie except to say that it was a completely false portrayal of this terrible woman.The truth is that Elizabeth Bathory was a sadistic, psychopathic murderer who tortured and killed hundreds of young girls, so many in fact that the surrounding towns literally ran out of young women. It was only when she kidnapped and killed the daughter of a nobleman that she was finally stopped. I think the producers did a great injustice to everyone in making this movie. It is little more than a collection of fancy costumes and poor acting that contains virtually no historical fact.

The review that I just read was pretty accurate...I do not think they quite understood what I took as the meaning as the movie. The confusion in the movie was the entire point in my opinion. She was never tried and proved guilty...everything was confusing during that time whether she was guilty of anything at all. She lost her temper and killed a couple of people...when someone was sneaking mushrooms into her drinks. IF they were wanting to go about it in a actual historically accurate method...which they did...she was possibly the victim of a political/religious conspiracy with the church wanting her land and all. Look up Elizabeth Bathory on Wikipedia. It goes through a thorough synopsis of her entire life...the accusations and also the conspiracy theory. Nothing was ever confirmed...so unless the people who made the movie wanted to give their opinion, which I do not believe they intended to do...they would have to leave it just as confusing and surrounded by myth as the entire story was. I kind of thought it was a good little effect on how much myth there was when they had her burn the castle she was imprisoned in...when in all reality nobody knows how she died or when she died. There were several days of uneaten food when they found her. Speculation was the point and the "spies" were there because they were there in real life. I have not found any information regarding an affair with the artist so that might have just been to show that she was possibly a normal wanting love kind of woman....we all have a romantic side even us torturers in the world.

This version about the famous countess Barthory is a big mistake in all aspects. Although the finest art direction, the film is fake in many ways and the rhythm is unstable.The storyline is confused with too many characters and the director didn't decide what to do with Barthory reputation (at the end are a ridiculous notice about the crimes of the countess)The introducing of the Italian painter, as well as the stupid spies and the English version misrepresent the historical facts. After 30 minutes the plot is boring and uninteresting. Frankly: the countess Barthory deserve something better. Let's wait for Julie Delpy's version 2009.