Countess Dracula (1970)

Compared to most Hammer Studio efforts, “Countess Dracula” is a fairly lame and boring affair. Loosely based on a 16th century broad named Countess Bathory; who apparently murdered hundreds of local peasants and liked to relieve the day’s tension with an evening bath in her victim’s blood. To hell with the Epsom salt…

Curvaceous actress Ingrid Pitt stars in dual roles as an old sadistic Countess, who discovers that by applying virginal blood to her skin restores her looks to twenty years prior. The Countess falls in love with a man 30 years younger, and in order to keep him attracted to her, starts to kill many a town virgin. In essence, that’s really about the jist of it. There’s a fair lacking of actual horror involved, as well as decent acting, pacing, or anything to remotely keep your interest after the 30-minute mark. Director Peter Salsdy really has nothing more to offer here than some decent period costumes and the occasionally nude Pitt to wake up drowsy viewers. The title itself is also fairly misleading, as the Countess isn’t really a vampire in the true sense of movie vampires, she just sorta smears some blood on her face like some pimple remover and bang, she’s a hot little piece of ass. For Hammer aficionados and Ingrid Pitt fanatics only.