Underworld (film series) the story, is described has having a habit similar to real-life historical Sanguinarian figure, Elizabeth Báthory the "Blood Countess", of often indulging in baths of blood, believing it to enhance her beauty (""The aroma of so much fresh blood was intoxicating. Sonja tried to imagine what it would be like to bathe in such a tub; her skin tingled beneath her gown. It was said that Amelia herself sometimes indulged in such luxurious ablutions in order to enhance her beauty"", "Blood Enemy" novelization, chapter 8). Erika is portrayed by Sophia Myles. She is a character in the "Underworld" film series
Countess Dracula scene, the peasants curse her as "devil woman" and "Countess Dracula". "Countess Dracula" was based on Hungarian Countess Erzsebet Báthory (1560-1614), who was responsible for the deaths of allegedly 600 girls and young women, all of which involved torture and gruesome methods of killing. Allmovie has retrospectively called the film "one of the more underrated films from the latter days of the Hammer Films dynasty." "The Hammer Story: The Authorised History of Hammer Films", on the other hand, wrote that the film's "distinctly anemic blood-lettings fail to lift a rather tiresome tale of court intrigue." "New York Times" film critic