COUNTESS DRACULA
Director - Peter Sasdy, Screenplay - Jeremy Paul, Story - Sasdy & Alexander Paal, Idea - Gabriel Ronay, Producer - Paal, Photography - Ken Talbot, Music - Harry Robinson, Special Effects - Bert Luxford, Makeup - Tom Smith, Art Direction - Philip Harrison. Production Company - Hammer. 1970.

Cast: Ingrid Pitt (Countess Elisabeth Nodosheen, Nigel Green (Captain Dobi), Sandor Eles (Imre Toth), Maurice Denham (Master Fabio), Patience Collier (Julia), Lesley Anne Down (Ilona)

      When the aging Countess Nonodsheen strikes one of her maids for being clumsy, causing her to cut herelf with a knife, the maid’s blood spatters the countess’s cheek, and she discovers when she wipes it away that the skin beneath is youthful and fresh again. Killing the girl and bathing in her blood, she is able to regain her youth. She then sets about pursuing the handsome Imre Toth. She has her daughter Ilona kidnapped and imprisoned so that she can pose as her and marry Imre Toth. However keeping her youth is a process that needs a constant infusion of fresh blood.
      Soon the villagers become alarmed when several young women disappear or turn up dead, drained of blood. An investigation leads to Countess Nodosheen, and bodies of many of the young woman who have disappeared are found hidden in her castle. When the Countess and Imre Toth are about to be married, she turns old suddenly and in a fit of rage upon seeing her freed daughter, kills Toth by mistake. The Countess is imprisoned for the rest of her life in her castle and the women in the village call her "Countess Dracula.".