Loosely based on the story of Elisabeth Bathory, it is about an evil countess who murders young virgins to restore her youth in their blood. The countess seduces the young son of her late husband's war buddy, while trying to cheat her daughter out of her inheritance by having her locked up by a peasant lackey.
It's a fun, graphic, bloody mess with copious amounts of sex and violence, just the thing that put Hammer on the map when Hollywood was being so prude.
Pitt's character is both sympathetic and contemptible, which makes the story work reasonably well.
It's a fun, graphic, bloody mess with copious amounts of sex and violence, just the thing that put Hammer on the map when Hollywood was being so prude.
Pitt's character is both sympathetic and contemptible, which makes the story work reasonably well.