Splendid of the Elizabeth Barthory story of the real life of the woman bathing in the blood of virgins so she might stay young. The cinematography and period setting wonderful with gloomy and grimly serious tone. Jorge Grau had two great films the next year with Violent Blood Bath that was a silly English title with its excellent giallo undertones and then the popular Let Sleeping Corpse Lie, also known as The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue. There was a particularly graphic scene with the falcons clawing tearing at a blooded bird. The bathing in blood of Barthory has not quite as much splashing in it but maybe it was because I watched the Spanish print and there is a 'uncut' English language film. Very good anyway and I have to mention the beautiful Eva Aulin who was also in Death Laid an Egg and Candy, both in 1968.
