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F-News (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Buckshot of Woozyfly.com's Buckshot's Bonanza recently conducted an interview with Darrell Roberts, Zoltan Bathory and Matt Snell of the Los Angeles-based metal band FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH. Watch the eight-minute chat below. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH recently released a brand new song called "Never Enough" as a free download to fans who have already bought or are now buying the band's debut album,...
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HowStuffWorks: Daily Stuff Feed (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Elizabeth Bathory was never convicted of her crimes, but testimonies say she killed as many as 650 people. Did she really bathe in their blood? And how did her family bring her rampage to an end?
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
... wealth.Meanwhile, is currently shooting her period thriller about 16th-century Hungarian Countess Bathory, who, legend has it, liked to bathe in the blood of virgins.Delpy had originally planned to shoot the film in Eastern Europe, but once Berlin-based X Filme Intl. came aboard, she and producer decided to shoot in Germany, a move Steinborn says made more economic sense.X Filme Intl. is...
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F-News (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH — the Los Angeles-based band featuring ex-W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, former MOTOGRATER vocalist Ivan Moody (Ghost), ex-U.P.O. guitarist Zoltan Bathory, former DEADSETT bassist Matt Snell, and drummer Jeremy Spencer — has announced the upcoming release of a special bonus song called "Never Enough". The track is available for free download exclusively to fans who...
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VH1 (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
... metal grade. And that's fine. Everyone's entitled to an opinion — and Hungarian guitarist Zoltan Bathory, one of the band's founding members, has a couple of his own. "We had a song ['The Bleeding'] that somehow touched so many people, and became really successful on the radio, but it's like a hate song, and it is pretty heavy," Bathory said of the single — which is hovering in the...
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prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 02/25/2008
Full disclosure: I was barely alive when Nifelheim's main influences began taking the lord's name in vain. But a first pass through Envoy of Lucifer, the Swedish metal quintet's fourth album and first in seven years, arouses the same primeval (prim-evil') buzz that kids in the '80s must have felt when they first wrapped their ears around Venom, Slayer, Bathory, and Sodom. In other words, this...
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Cinematical (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Filed under: Drama , Horror , Deals , War Just to lighten things up after word that Vincent Perez's life is going to hit the big screen, Variety reports that Israeli director Eytan Fox is teaming up with X Filme International for a film based on Gad Beck . Fox is currently writing the mostly-English script with partner and collaborator Gal Uchovsky , to film on location in Germany. While the subject...
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Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... Before... films) to a period epic for her next film, The Countess which is the story of Erzebet Bathory a member of the famous 16th century Hungarian family. Her character is infamous for bathing in the blood of virgins. Or so the legend goes… Should be an interesting film and the director/writer/actress has assembled a rich ensemble (William Hurt, Ethan Hawke, Daniel Bruhl, Radha Mitchell,...
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scans_daily: Bringing the crack sin (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
There's not a lot of Hack/Slash scans here...this must be fixed. The current arc, Tub Club, has Cassie and Vlad infiltrating an all-girls college, due to an empty human skin found nearby, which they track to the Tub Club - rumoured to be a coven of lesbian Elizabeth Bathory wannabes. This post contains no hot lesbian action. Instead, just a couple images of Cassie and Vlad's delightful interaction....
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Taliesin meets the vampires (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
In the first instance a film about a haunted video game doesn't seem too vamp, more like it has taken the premise of haunted technology ala J-movies and substituted video for video games. Yes, this film owes a lot to Ring. However, once I heard that the central character was Elizabeth Bathory (Maria Kalinina, though much of the time she is a computer generated version), I had to look into it....
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
Jakubisko, from Kojsov in what is now eastern Slovakia, made a string of comedies that helped launch the career of former president Vaclav Havel's wife, Dasa Veskernova. Now he is finishing Gothic romancer “Bathory,” starring Anna Friel. It is the biggest-budgeted pic in recent Slovak history.
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 01/03/2008
In 2004, acclaimed actress Julie Delpy was nominated for an Academy Award for co-writing Richard Linklater's wonderful Before Sunset, in which she also starred. In the meantime, Delpy had been pitching a script on the life of Countess Bathory, another on the experiences of Japanese soldiers during World War 2, and a third satirising the media's relationship to war. Yet the only project for which...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 01/01/2008
... can be traced back to the medieval times. In sheer numerical terms, Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory has the maximum blood on her hands. According to the web-based encyclopedia, Wikipedia, the 16th century "Blood Countess" and her four alleged collaborators were "accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls and young women, with one witness saying she had over 600 victims". Reason:...
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The Shattered Realm (Free subscription) | 12/04/2007
... spiritually neutered, 'humanist' with little outlook beyond the world of materialism. Then the Bathory song ' One Rode to Asa Bay ' came onto my media player as it went through its shuffle cycle, and I began to feel a kind of schadenfreude at the fate of Christianity in Europe. It came here via the sword and hence eventually, according to Christianity's own tenets, it would inevitably (and...
