The Blood Countess (Die Blutgräfin) (LUXFILMFEST)

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..Ulrike Ottinger, 119 min, 2026 - Luxembourg, Austria, Germany
Resurrected after a long slumber, the Blood Countess and her faithful servant prowl fin-de-siècle Vienna in search of fresh victims to feed their appetites. A motley cast of characters–the Countess’ vegetarian nephew, his psychotherapist, a team of vampirologists, and the police–pursues them as the women seek a long-lost book whose secrets threaten to upend the vampire order. Based on the sixteenth-century legend of the Hungarian noblewoman Erzsébet Báthory, The Blood Countess is a baroque fantasia that transplants its immortal antiheroine to Vienna. By equal turns comedic and macabre, this is a gloriously gothic treat with the inimitable Isabelle Huppert in full bloodthirsty splendor.