(30 Oct 2024)
SLOVAKIA BLOOD COUNTESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Čachtice, Slovakia – 20 October 2024
1. Various of replica of Elizabeth Báthory’s dress on display in the Draškovič museum
2. Zoom in on painting depicting Báthory
3. Various of screen showing actress playing Elizabeth Báthory
4. Pan of drawings depicting torture scenes
5. Mid of drawing
6. Wide of screen showing Báthory turning black
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cambridge, UK – 24 October 2024
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Annouchka Bayley, Associate Professor at Cambridge University:
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
"Was Báthory a serial killer who was tormenting and torturing 650 young women for nothing more than her pleasure? The evidence, first of all, is scant. But second of all, when you look at all these other things going on around her, the pause for thought becomes greater. I’m very convinced that it’s, as we put it in England, a stitch-up job.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Čachtice, Slovakia – 20 October 2024
8. Tilt up to information board in the Draškovič museum depicting Báthory
9. Wide of a museum exhibit displaying 16th-century swords, handcuffs, and torture equipment
10. Various of torture equipment
11. Various of a hologram play depicting Elizabeth Báthory and her "blood bath”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cambridge, UK – 24 October 2024
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Annouchka Bayley, Associate Professor at Cambridge University:
++VIA VIDEO CALL++
"She deserves better. We all deserve better. And I think that speaks to the real deep reason as to why I find this so important. I think we all deserve better; I think women deserve better, I think men deserve better. I think this trope is hackneyed and tired. I think woman-as-monster trope has been going on since Medusa, if not before. Medusa has had plenty of rewritings, other figures have had plenty of rewritings. Why not Báthory’s turn?”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Čachtice, Slovakia – 20 October 2024
13. Various of people visiting the ruins of Báthory castle
14. Focus pull to castle
15. Wide of tourists taking pictures on ruins
16. Various drone shots of castle ++MUTE++
17. Visitors walking on ruins
18. SOUNDBITE (Slovakian) Ivan Pisca, local farmer:
"There are legends about Elizabeth Báthory, relatively bloodthirsty ones about the young girls she tortured and then killed. Older people believe these tales, but the younger people may know a little less about them.”
19. Drone shot of castle ++MUTE++
20. Various of ruins
21. SOUNDBITE (Slovakian) Ivan Pisca, local farmer:
"Legends also have a strong presence in this castle because she supposedly died here. She should have been buried in the nearby church in Čachtice, but it won’t allow the tomb to be re-opened.”
22. Wide of Čachtice town and its church
23. Wide of cross
24. Various of church
25. Focus pull from a lock to graves in the yard of the church
STORYLINE:
LEADIN
For 400 years, the gruesome story of “The Blood Countess,” a Hungarian noblewoman known as the most prolific female serial killer of all time, has captured the imagination.
A growing number of researchers, however, are now casting doubt on whether Elizabeth Báthory was really the monster that she’s been portrayed as.
STORYLINE
Alleged deeds so depraved that even a replica of the dress “The Blood Countess” once wore draws visitors to this museum in western Slovakia.
On a wall nearby, a portrait of the infamous noblewoman appears to invite museum-goers to stare into her eyes and decide for themselves whether Elizabeth Báthory could really be as evil as the legends suggest.
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