Watching this uncut version of Ceremonia Sangrienta a.k.a. Bloody Ceremony, with litalian beauty Lucia Bose, is like watching a great piece of gothic history. If you’re into local peasant superstition from the dark ages, then this is a perfect fit. The movie starts out with a local doctor dead and in his coffin, facing the local court. Dead and on trial, he is suspect of being a vampire. Then it takes your through the questioning and then later on Elizabeth Bathory, local countess. It’s interesting in a lot of aspects because this film focuses heavy on vampirism. In a lot of aspects it shows how Bathory, with that first drop of virgin blood starts to descend into madness, believing bathing in virginal blood, is the cue to agelessness and eternal beauty. As the film progresses and Elizabeth’s husband, the local Magistrate, supposedly dies and rises from the dead and the village people start suspecting something. It then takes you through a mock trial of the countess and what happens to her and her trusted servant. I really enjoyed this film because of the whole Bathory tale and also it shows you what people tend to believe and how peasants live and breathe superstitions. That is how they explained the unexplainable and how they took precautions against it. If you can find an uncut copy of, “Jorge Grau”, gothic vampirism tale of Elizabeth Bathory, then please do so because you will not be disappointed.