Not every movie has a bloodline like this. Isabelle Huppert—the star of Elle and The Piano Teacher—is set to star in Blood Countess as Countess Elizabeth Báthory, a historical figure who probably wasn’t a vampire in real life but sure is in this movie. And while, yes, there are plenty of vampire movies in the world, few of them are written by Nobel Prize-winning authors. Blood Countess has a screenplay by director Ulrike Ottinger and Elfriede Jelinek, who won the Nobel in 2004.
Jelinek is also the author of The Piano Teacher, so this is something of a re-team-up for her and Huppert, who is joined in the film by Birgit Minichmayr as her “devoted maid.” The synopsis, as reported by Variety, says that Elizabeth and her maid “embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life. … Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew (Thomas Schubert), his psychotherapist (Lars Eidinger), two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters in this twisted and humorous vampire tale.”
Twisted and humorous! Sign us right up. No U.S. release date has been announced for Blood Countess, but she is presumably eternal, and will get here eventually.
