Countess Dracula from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the USA as a double-bill with "The Vampire Lovers", and from Carlton in the UK in a box set with "Twins of Evil" and "Vampire Circus". Synapse released a Blu-ray/DVD combo pack in the U.S. in 2014, which featured a new high-definition transfer. Countess Dracula Countess Dracula is a 1971 British Hammer horror film based on the legends surrounding the "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Báthory. The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in England. The original music score was composed by Harry Robertson. "Countess Dracula" was also released on
Thomas Bathe release. Far more serious charges (some of which were certainly false) were levelled against Bathe in 1449, and these were the main grounds for the indictment against him in the Parliament of 1460. He was accused of a serious assault on Dr. John Stackpole, a priest attached to Bective Abbey. It seems that Stackpole had been installed as the parish priest of Kilberry, a living which Bathe claimed was his to dispose of. The dispute between the two men led Stackpole to ask the Bishop of Meath for Bathe's excommunication: in revenge Bathe kidnapped and imprisoned him. However the most