The Countess, about Elizabeth Bathory, is an awesome film. It starts slow, but right when you begin to tire of all the lords and ladies and the splendor of the court, it get really gruesome really fast, and stays that way until the end. Virgins are killed, fits are thrown, and wolves run off with dismembered human hands. Rad.

Dead Ringers is a David Cronenberg film about identical twin gynecologists who are dating the same woman, fooling her into thinking they’re the same guy. We didn’t finish this one. My boyfriend, usually an avid Cronenberg fan, thought it was way too slow and didn’t feel like watching the whole thing. I’m going to finish it by myself today.