{"id":233199,"date":"2026-01-14T18:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233199\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:45:10","slug":"new-look-at-isabelle-huppert-as-elizabeth-bathory-in-the-blood-countess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233199\/","title":{"rendered":"New Look at Isabelle Huppert as Elizabeth B\u00e1thory in &#8216;The Blood Countess&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new image from The Blood Countess shows Isabelle Huppert (Elle) draped in red as Elizabeth B\u00e1thory alongside Birgit Minichmayr (Perfume: The Story of a Murderer) as her maid.<\/p>\n<p>The eccentric vampire mystery  will have its world premiere at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.berlinale.de\/en\/2026\/programme\/202604022.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin Film Festival<\/a> next month.<\/p>\n<p>In the film, after The Blood Countess awakens from her long beauty sleep and emerges from the underworld, she and her devoted maid (Birgit Minichmayr) embark on a baroque quest through Vienna to recover the red elixir of life.<\/p>\n<p>The book, if found and read by their enemies, threatens their vampire realm. Hot on their heels are a vegetarian nephew, his psychotherapist, two vampirologists, a police inspector, and more lively characters.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Schubert (The Dark Valley),\u00a0Lars Eidinger (Personal Shopper), Andr\u00e9 Jung (The Experiment), Karl Markovics (Unknown), and Eurovision Song Contest winner Conchita Wurst round out the cast.<\/p>\n<p>The Austria-Luxembourg-Germany co-production is directed by Ulrike Ottinger from a script she co-wrote with Elfriede Jelinek (The Piano Teacher).<\/p>\n<p>Bettina Brokemper (Melancholia, Antichrist) serving as executive producer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Isabelle-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new image from The Blood Countess shows Isabelle Huppert (Elle) draped in red as Elizabeth B\u00e1thory alongside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[138273,156,1996,409,111,139,69,138274],"class_list":{"0":"post-233199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-elizabeth-bathory","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-isabelle-huppert","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-the-blood-countess"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}