Isabelle Huppert (Elle, Greta) is the vampiric Elizabeth Báthory in upcoming film The Blood Countess, and Variety reports this week that Strand Releasing has picked up the U.S. rights.
“Strand is planning a theatrical release in Spring 2027,” Variety notes.
The Blood Countess will have its World Premiere at Fantastic Fest on September 17.
The film is said to be a “sumptuous adventure and bizarro black comedy.”
Decades after her mysterious disappearance, the Blood Countess reemerges in modern-day Vienna, where she reunites with her devoted underling, Hermione, to track down a dangerous book with the power to destroy all evil — including all vampires such as themselves.
The duo embarks on a scavenger hunt through the city’s magnificent historic sites and conscript the countess’s melancholic nephew — a vegetarian vampire — and his psychotherapist as they expand their search to Bohemia. Meanwhile, a pair of vampirologists and a police inspector remain hot on their trail.
“Morbidly funny and dazzlingly decadent,” this reinvention of the vampire myth is directed by Ulrike Ottinger from a script she co-wrote with Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher).
Birgit Minichmayr (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer), Thomas Schubert (The Dark Valley), Lars Eidinger (Personal Shopper), and André Jung (The Experiment) co-star.
