‘The Blood Countess’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Bites Into a Gloriously Costumed, Deeply Silly Vampire Tale as Erzsébet Báthory

Berlin: The star is murderously brilliant in Ulrike Ottinger's dark comedy about the infamous Blood Countess, but this very ...

‘The Blood Countess’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Sinks Her Teeth Into a Juicy Slice of Vampire Camp That Looks Ravishing but Wears Thin

Iconoclastic German veteran Ulrike Otinger mines macabre humor from a fictionalized portrait of notorious real-life Hungarian ...

Lars Eidinger Wanted Isabelle Huppert's Vampire Role in ‘The Blood Countess': But ‘It Turned Out I Was the Vampire's Therapist!'

Lars Eidinger has still gotten over the fact that he didn’t get to play a vampire in “The Blood Countess,” starring Isabelle ...

French star Isabelle Huppert revels in vampire role with 'The Blood Countess'

BERLIN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - French film mainstay Isabelle Huppert relished slipping into the role of a vampire for German ...

The Blood Countess review: A hilarious Isabelle Huppert fully puts the vamp into vampire

Whether saturating entire frames or dribbling down a rare contrasting design element, there’s red everywhere you look in “The ...
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‘The Blood Countess’ review: Isabelle Huppert sinks her teeth into Ulrike Ottinger’s lavish vampire spoof

In a vaulted subterranean lake, a scarlet-cloaked Isabelle Huppert floats regally into view on a blood-red funeral barge – ...

The Blood Countess review – Isabelle Huppert reigns supreme in a surreal vampire fantasia

Vienna turns into a playground of camp, cruelty and aristocratic disdain in a blackly comic take on the Báthory legend – with Huppert gloriously suited to the title role ...