Countess Dracula (1971) – C 04

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Visually stunning publicity shot featuring Ingrid Pitt as the infamous Hungarian "Countess Elizabeth Báthory" wearing her elaborate period dress, posing next to Sandor Elès (Lieutenant Imre Toth).

Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on some of the legends surrounding the Countess Elizabeth Báthory. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. Countess Dracula was also released on a double bill with Vampire Circus. The film opened at the New Victoria cinema in London on January 31st, 1971 before going on general release in the UK on February 14th, 1971. It opened October 1972 in the United States.

Allmovie has retrospectively called the film "one of the more underrated films from the latter days of the Hammer Films dynasty." The Hammer Story: The Authorized History of Hammer Films, on the other hand, wrote that the film's "distinctly anemic blood-lettings fail to lift a rather tiresome tale of court intrigue." Countess Dracula was inspired by the infamous Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Báthory (1560–1614), a landowner and noblewoman who was accused of murdering dozens of women and girls.

New York Times film critic Howard Thompson considered it "better than most horror movies in a sea of trashy competition", and called Peter Sasdy's direction "smooth and pointed" with "crisp, cutting edge" dialogue, until the last act of the film where "it runs out of gas, along with the desperate old woman Countess Elizabeth." David Pirie of The Monthly Film Bulletin called the acting "extremely poor," but found that the film "frequently takes on a nightmare quality" and that Ingrid Pitt "brings to the part a very potent aura of physical corruption that is especially effective in the transformation sequences."

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