The heart, a drummer to whose beat we are all forced to march. When the beat stops, so do we stop marching, well, stop everything really. The importance of the heart is demonstrated time and again in culture and history, often placed aloft upon a pedestal. With vampires, a stake of wood (or perhaps silver …
Bathory weaves a thought-provoking alternate tale of the infamous Countess Báthory Erzsébet. Was she a victim of religious political conspiracy and greed? Whatever you believe, the movie provides potential answers to the stories of legend about the vampire countess. A sub-plot reveals a romantic relationship between the countess and Caravaggio, yes, the famous Baroque painter. …