aesgaard41 I suspected a lot out of this movie, and I was correct. I was only really interested in seeing this film because of my interest in the legend of Elizabeth Bathory, but the movie isn't that good. It has a huge production scale on a near claustrophobic setting with very little credibility. It's basically a high budget sadomasochistic porn film with a plot. Bathory enthusiasts will find it interesting, porn aficionados will appreciate it, but serious horror fans will be bored as the storyline drags on the murder crime drama interludes interspersed with scenes of violence and sexual eroticism. In the end, it's not revealed if the woman in question is supposed to be Bathory or an admirer. She bears no resemblance to the historical character and the facts of the Bathory legend are inexact. Claiming the movie is based on actual events is a bit of a misnomer of you consider the fact that heavy artistic license was taken to alter the actual events into a modern setting almost five hundred years after the fact.

fedor8 To find a good horror movie, you need to go through ten crappy ones. This is one of those ten.A fashion world horror, one of those with a bunch of six-foot tall models with 10 grams of meat on them. This is an overly long Countess Bathory film with an (anti-)hero cop who is not only immoral but even dumb. Half-way through the film we wonder why he's not doing anything to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, he is being framed, and screwed over by Bathory. We also never get an explanation why he doesn't tell his cop friends about her, especially after he becomes a suspect. But I did say he was dumb.. But why dumb? Immoral and dumb? What's the point of that?...

badgrrlkane I really don't see why so many people hated this film.First off for a low-budget Canadian horror/sensual vampire film it's really good. It's done a lot more tastefully than say some of the so-called erotic vampire films that are shown on say Cinemax. Also,it's about Elizabeth Bathory, a huge part of Vampire Mythology, who other than the way cool Hammer Film from 1970 "Countess Dracula" where the always way cool buxom Ingrid Pitt bathed & drank young virgin blood, there is only this 2nd film Eternal, about her. And,she's almost as big a part of the Vampire folklore as Dracula/Vlad The Impaler. I've heard Julie Deply'starring/directing a film called Bathory about her as well for 2007 release. I don't know these actors as they are Canadian actors mainly, but Caroline Neron was sexy & quite convincing as Elizabeth Kane, the woman who may be either the re-incarnation of Ms Bathory or may-be she is actually her & over 400 yrs old! This film leaves that open to your interpretation. The guy who played the detective was hot, as I really liked his sex scenes as he has a intensity that made it quite hot for us women out there & there is plenty of stylishly done girl on girl seductions with murder added in & blood drinking. Also,i liked the no fangs part, as Ms bathory wasn't Dracula & actually at one time lived, 7 would need a knife or syringe of a sort to bleed her victims to feed & to bathe in their blood. *** out of *****

Deemah Sokoloff I've read some previous posts where people are speaking about "sensuality", "sexiness"... come on peeps! If you want lesbian sensuality - watch some of Andrew Blake films! You'll get an hour-and-a-half non-stop lesbian sexuality action without some pseudo-vampiric stuff! The movie is booooooring! I've stopped the playback on 40th minute and I am not sure if I want to continue watching it. It seems like the producers and directors were not sure what they wanted to film - a horror, a vampiric movie, a BSDM or lesbian hardcore. Therefore they've decided to take a little piece of each and mix them altogether. It's like mixing eggs, bacon, strawberry jam, mustard and chocolate sauce. I like only two things about this movie - camera work and the house where the policeman lives :) By the way - what's this "inspired by true events" thing?