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day 23 of horror: my list to underrated essential horror films
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Ingrid Pitt in Countess Dracula (1971)
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Hammer Studios' Dracula series.
#dracula#count dracula#hammer studios#hammer horror#horror movies#vampire movies#horror of dracula#the brides of dracula#dracula prince of darkness#dracula has risen from the grave#taste the blood of dracula#scars of dracula#dracula ad 1972#the satanic rites of dracula#countess dracula#peter cushing#christopher lee#ingrid pitt
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You know what they say about the Countess. she's a witch. All the Bathorys are witches. Sold their souls to the devil. Their ancestor was a seven-headed dragon. And the worst of them all is the Countess Elizabeth
COUNTESS DRACULA (1971)
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The horror films of Peter Sasdy.
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The Haunted Beauty collection featured a Vampire Barbie, and of course, vampires were heavily represented among the tie-in Barbies for the Twilight films.
Ken's little brother Tommy even dressed as a vampire for Halloween!
But among the dramatic Bob Mackie Barbies, there was a particularly striking contribution: Countess Dracula Barbie.
If you know much about Bob Mackie's design, you can see him all over this doll. The silhouette and the heavily embroidered gown make it look really up his alley.
And I love his work. You all know it.
With only 3200 dolls release, this was a particularly limited gold label release.
I will say that out of context, I don't know that I would pick her as a vampire or, for that matter, as a Dracula tie-in. Besides the casket shape to her box, there's not a lot vampiric/Dracula-esque about her.
She's still cool as hell.
#barbie#bob mackie#bob mackie barbies#gold label barbies#countess dracula#haunted beauty barbie#tommy carson#vampire#vampire barbies
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Ingrid Pitt en "La Condesa Drácula" (Countess Dracula), dirigida por Peter Sasdy (1971)
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As you grow older, your politics change.
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Celebrating Ingrid Pitt
Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.
Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters of a father of German Jewish descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) but escaped. In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name "Ingrid Pitt", keeping her former husband's surname, and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.
In the early 1960s, Pitt was a member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.
Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult figure status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971), based on the legends about Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pitt also appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had a small part in The Wicker Man (1973).
During the 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television. Her role as Fraulein Baum in the 1981 BBC Playhouse Unity, who is denounced as a Jew by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was uncomfortably close to her real-life experiences. Her popularity with horror film buffs had her in demand for guest appearances at horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Pitt has appeared outside the horror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) and Hanna's War (1988). Generally cast as a villainess, her characters often died horribly at the end of the final reel. "Being the anti-hero is great – they are always roles you can get your teeth into."
In the 1980s she also reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, after a number of ill-fated tracts on the plight of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a spy story about mistaken identity. "I took it to Cubby Broccoli. It was about a woman called Nina Dalton who is pursued across South America in the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby said it was a female Bond. He was being very kind."
In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the for her own reading of extracts from the audio book.
The autobiography detailed the harrowing experiences of her early life—in a Nazi concentration camp, her search through Europe in Red Cross refugee camps for her father, and her escape from East Berlin, one step ahead of the Volkspolizei. "I always had a big mouth and used to go on about the political schooling interrupting my quest for thespian glory. I used to think like that. Not good in a police state."
Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday, from congestive heart failure.
Seven months before she died, Pitt finished narration for Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011), an animated short film on her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.
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Ingrid Pitt in Countess Dracula (1971)
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I finally read Countess Dracula (the novel Bela Lugosi liked) by Carroll Borland and I am shook. The will to fanart is so strong
Borland really captures Lugosi’s Count in her novel. The romantic scenes between Dracula and Risa, the female protagonist, perfectly evoke the otherworldly, hypnotic aura of his vampire. The novel also has a atmospheric, misty quality that is lovely. Lugosi loved Borland’s book and always encouraged her to publish it, and since he liked romantic roles he even hoped for a film adaptation.
I’m so happy Carroll and Bela saved this little gem
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Countess Dracula (1971) & Vampire Circus (1972)
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More Renfield and Dracula
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COUNTESS DRACULA (1971) Reviews of vaguely historical Hammer
Countess Dracula is a British horror film based on the legends surrounding the “Blood Countess” Elizabeth Báthory. It is in many ways atypical of Hammer’s canon, attempting to broaden their output from Dracula and Frankenstein sequels. Filmed in 1970, it was released in January 1971.
The film was produced by Alexander Paal and directed by Peter Sasdy, both Hungarian émigrés working in…
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#Countess Dracula#Elisabeth Bathory#film#Hammer#Harry Robertson#horror#Ingrid Pitt#Lesley-Anne Down#movie#Nigel Green#Peter Sasdy#review#reviews
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Ingrid Pitt in Countess Dracula (1971)
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