Lucia Bose stars as Elizabeth Bathroy, a woman who is afraid of growing old. Her personal nurse has an idea for her to stay young.
She devises a plan to have Bathory use the blood of virgins to bathe in and stay young. Bathroy's husband goes along with the plan and fakes his own death in order to make the superstitious people in the area blame the mysterious killings on a vampire.
Director Jorge Grau makes the film move at a fast pace and one easily gets lost in the time period as you watch the film unfold. Ewa Aulin is gorgeous as always and I like seeing her in almost anything.
The ending is brutal as the nurse has her tongue cut out and Bathory is walled up in her room for the rest of her life. The camera pans past many dirty and used plates that she has been served food on as she sits infront of a mirror looking like a rotted corpse.
This is a sure bet for any Euro horror fan out there.
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