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The Devil’s Bath directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala with Anne-Katrin Titze: “The film takes place in a time when Enlightenment was starting, but still a lot of superstition was going on.”
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath, starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin) with Maria Hofstätter and David Scheid, shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival) with costumes by Tanja Hausner (Jessica Hausner’s sister and longtime collaborator) is executive produced by Ulrich Seidl (Rimini and Sparta) and Bettina Brokemper.
Agnes (Anja Plaschg) being led blindfolded by her husband Wolf (David Scheid) to where they will live
Agnes (Anja Plaschg), wearing a thick brown woolen sweater, braids a fragile wreath for her hair and wraps her precious collection of dried grasses, insects and shells into a kerchief. This is her wedding day and together with her mother,...
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath, starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin) with Maria Hofstätter and David Scheid, shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival) with costumes by Tanja Hausner (Jessica Hausner’s sister and longtime collaborator) is executive produced by Ulrich Seidl (Rimini and Sparta) and Bettina Brokemper.
Agnes (Anja Plaschg) being led blindfolded by her husband Wolf (David Scheid) to where they will live
Agnes (Anja Plaschg), wearing a thick brown woolen sweater, braids a fragile wreath for her hair and wraps her precious collection of dried grasses, insects and shells into a kerchief. This is her wedding day and together with her mother,...
- 6/27/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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The Lodge and Goodnight Mommy filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala unleash their bleakest film yet this week with The Devil’s Bath, and an exclusive new clip teases the harsh realities of living in the 18th century.
The Devil’s Bath arrives exclusively on Shudder on Friday, June 28.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Check out the clip below, which sees Agnes (Anja Plaschg) giving chase in the woods, only to come upon a grisly cautionary tale...
The Devil’s Bath arrives exclusively on Shudder on Friday, June 28.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Check out the clip below, which sees Agnes (Anja Plaschg) giving chase in the woods, only to come upon a grisly cautionary tale...
- 6/27/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Austrian gloom purveyors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are no strangers to masochistically bleak approaches. The Devil’s Bath matches an underlying darkness present in their previous films Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, like a specter breathing down your neck—but their new film’s...
Austrian gloom purveyors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are no strangers to masochistically bleak approaches. The Devil’s Bath matches an underlying darkness present in their previous films Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, like a specter breathing down your neck—but their new film’s...
- 6/26/2024
- by Matt Donato
- avclub.com
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Gruesome and viscerally upsetting, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath takes an unsparing, pointedly grim look at the wages of being a peasant woman in early-18th-century Austria. Set on the cusp of the Enlightenment, the writer-directors’ chilling new film serves to remind us of just how uneven the historical arc toward progress has been.
Inspired by the real phenomenon of 17th- and 18th-century European women committing suicide by state proxy—murdering people, usually children, in order to be executed by the state—The Devil’s Bath details a social configuration at once familiar and alienating. It immerses the viewer back to the era’s uncanny, religion-infused perception of the world in a manner comparable to Robert Eggert’s 2015 breakthrough The Witch but with a brutal matter of factness that resists succumbing to the horror genre’s fetish for all things arcane.
Franz and Fiala thrust us...
Inspired by the real phenomenon of 17th- and 18th-century European women committing suicide by state proxy—murdering people, usually children, in order to be executed by the state—The Devil’s Bath details a social configuration at once familiar and alienating. It immerses the viewer back to the era’s uncanny, religion-infused perception of the world in a manner comparable to Robert Eggert’s 2015 breakthrough The Witch but with a brutal matter of factness that resists succumbing to the horror genre’s fetish for all things arcane.
Franz and Fiala thrust us...
- 6/19/2024
- by Pat Brown
- Slant Magazine
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Upper Austria, 1750. A middle-aged woman holding a baby stands at the mouth of a waterfall that seems to stretch all the way up to heaven on a cascade of white foam. What happens next won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone familiar with the rest of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s captivatingly bleak — and religiously familicidal — body of work: She lobs the child over the edge, with no discernible expression on her face as the little bundle plummets out of sight.
From there, the woman immediately reports herself to the local authorities. The next time we see her, she’s on public display in a local forest, her decapitated head resting in an iron cage next to her corpse. This morbid exhibit is complete with an illustrated plaque that’s meant to serve as a warning for those who would dare to trespass against God. It doesn’t.
From there, the woman immediately reports herself to the local authorities. The next time we see her, she’s on public display in a local forest, her decapitated head resting in an iron cage next to her corpse. This morbid exhibit is complete with an illustrated plaque that’s meant to serve as a warning for those who would dare to trespass against God. It doesn’t.
- 6/18/2024
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
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Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath, starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin) with Maria Hofstätter and David Scheid, shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival) with costumes by Tanja Hausner (Jessica Hausner’s sister and longtime collaborator) is executive produced by Ulrich Seidel (Rimini and Sparta) and Bettina Brokemper.
The horror in Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature together (following Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge) is very much of this world and rooted in a belief system that brought hundreds of women “weary of this life” to commit acts of murder and confess,...
The horror in Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature together (following Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge) is very much of this world and rooted in a belief system that brought hundreds of women “weary of this life” to commit acts of murder and confess,...
- 6/15/2024
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala already established a reputation for bleak, atmospheric horror with their debut feature, Goodnight Mommy, and their bleaker follow-up, The Lodge. Their latest, The Devil’s Bath, continues that trend with their most despairing effort yet, mining period horror from history. It’s an affecting yet grueling depiction of life in 18th-century Austria, immersive in the way it creates profound, methodical empathy for a tender-hearted woman trapped by isolation.
A shocking act of violence opens The Devil’s Bath, one that lays the narrative groundwork while offering ample horror to hold fans over as it shifts into a meticulous character study. It’s the type of cold open that’s unsettling and taboo, shaking up the filmmakers’ usual depiction of evil children. From there, the film introduces Agnes (Anja Plaschg), a gentle soul with an affinity for kindness and nature. We meet Agnes on the day...
A shocking act of violence opens The Devil’s Bath, one that lays the narrative groundwork while offering ample horror to hold fans over as it shifts into a meticulous character study. It’s the type of cold open that’s unsettling and taboo, shaking up the filmmakers’ usual depiction of evil children. From there, the film introduces Agnes (Anja Plaschg), a gentle soul with an affinity for kindness and nature. We meet Agnes on the day...
- 6/10/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
Giving a voice to the invisible and unheard women of the rural past; The Devil’S Bath is based on historical court records about a shocking, hitherto unexplored chapter of European history.
From Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, check out the trailer.
The film stars Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter. The Devil’S Bath will have it’s North American Premiere on Saturday, June 8th at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, said in her review: “”Plaschg is raw, direct and affecting…...
Giving a voice to the invisible and unheard women of the rural past; The Devil’S Bath is based on historical court records about a shocking, hitherto unexplored chapter of European history.
From Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala, check out the trailer.
The film stars Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter. The Devil’S Bath will have it’s North American Premiere on Saturday, June 8th at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, said in her review: “”Plaschg is raw, direct and affecting…...
- 6/5/2024
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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"Please don't cast me into hell!" Shudder has unveiled the official trailer for the Austrian horror drama film titled The Devil's Bath, which originally premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival earlier this year. Des Teufels Bad, in German, is the latest film from acclaimed genre filmmakers Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz from Austria, directors of horror hits Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge previously. Journey back to 18th century Austria, where a woman faces a grim fate for a horrifying crime. As Agnes prepares for her wedding, sinister forces stir, plunging her into darkness and despair. Starring Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, and David Scheid. This earned mostly positive reviews out of Berlinale: while "punishingly grim and has some pacing issues, this is a gripping psychological study by directors operating with formidable command." // Continue Reading ›...
- 6/4/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
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The Tribeca Film Festival 2024, presented by Okx, is back this week with tons of new genre premieres, retrospectives, and events to get excited about. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16 in New York City showcases the best emerging talent from across the globe alongside established names.
Horror fans can look forward to buzzy titles like The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. But the horror extends beyond the Midnight section, including the premiere of Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead. Look for the festival to give special presentations of Alfred Hitchcock and Tod Browning classics, too.
Finally, if you’re a Godzilla fan, don’t miss the epic bash the fest is throwing for the classic film’s 70th anniversary.
Read on for 14 can’t miss events and screenings to catch at Tribeca:
The A-Frame (United States) – World Premiere. A quantum physicist’s machine...
Horror fans can look forward to buzzy titles like The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. But the horror extends beyond the Midnight section, including the premiere of Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead. Look for the festival to give special presentations of Alfred Hitchcock and Tod Browning classics, too.
Finally, if you’re a Godzilla fan, don’t miss the epic bash the fest is throwing for the classic film’s 70th anniversary.
Read on for 14 can’t miss events and screenings to catch at Tribeca:
The A-Frame (United States) – World Premiere. A quantum physicist’s machine...
- 6/4/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are back with another harrowing tale, but this time hewing closer to real life than providing a genre twist. The Devil’s Bath, which premiered at Berlinale earlier this year, follows a woman in 1750s Austria who commits a horrible act to be freed from her isolated life. Starring Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, and Maria Hofstätter, the first trailer and poster have now arrived ahead of a U.S. release.
Here’s the synopsis: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
Here’s the synopsis: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.
- 6/4/2024
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
The Devil’s Bath – the latest genre movie from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the directing duo behind the disturbing horror films Goodnight Mommy (the original, not the Naomi Watts remake) and The Lodge – has been acquired by Shudder, with the streaming service planning to release it in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand on June 28th. With that date just a few weeks away, Shudder has released a trailer for the film… and oddly, they chose to release it through the Letterboxd X account first, as you can see below. But it has since made its way to YouTube and is now embedded at the top of this article.
Watch the official trailer for The Devil’s Bath—opens at @ifccenter in New York on June 21 and arrives on @shudder June 28. Add to watchlist https://t.co/LL3VccWQlE pic.twitter.com/nFnlSTP0Gt
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Watch the official trailer for The Devil’s Bath—opens at @ifccenter in New York on June 21 and arrives on @shudder June 28. Add to watchlist https://t.co/LL3VccWQlE pic.twitter.com/nFnlSTP0Gt
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- 6/4/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy) are back with The Devil’s Bath, and Shudder has debuted the official trailer today.
The Devil’s Bath opens at the IFC Center in New York June 21 before arriving exclusively on Shudder June 28. Courtesy of Letterboxd, check out the trailer and poster below.
Shot on 35mm, The Devil’s Bath is based on historical records, and the film debuted at Berlinale this year where it was awarded a Silver Bear for Martin Schlacht’s cinematography.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a...
The Devil’s Bath opens at the IFC Center in New York June 21 before arriving exclusively on Shudder June 28. Courtesy of Letterboxd, check out the trailer and poster below.
Shot on 35mm, The Devil’s Bath is based on historical records, and the film debuted at Berlinale this year where it was awarded a Silver Bear for Martin Schlacht’s cinematography.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a...
- 6/4/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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A couple months ago, we learned that The Devil’s Bath – the latest genre movie from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the directing duo behind the disturbing horror films Goodnight Mommy (the original, not the Naomi Watts remake) and The Lodge – had been acquired by Shudder, with the streaming service planning to release it in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand sometime this summer. Now we know the exact release date. The Devil’s Bath will be available to stream on Shudder as of June 28th.
The Devil’s Bath – which has been described as “utterly harrowing”, “chilling”, and “impactful” – is a German-language film that is set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day,...
The Devil’s Bath – which has been described as “utterly harrowing”, “chilling”, and “impactful” – is a German-language film that is set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day,...
- 4/18/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are back with new horror movie The Devil’s Bath, and it’s coming to Shudder this summer.
The Devil’s Bath debuts on Shudder June 28, Variety reports today.
The film makes its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger star. You can check out a first look image above. Expect...
The Devil’s Bath debuts on Shudder June 28, Variety reports today.
The film makes its North American premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June.
Here’s the official plot synopsis for the German-language horror movie: “In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.”
Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger star. You can check out a first look image above. Expect...
- 4/18/2024
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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The Tribeca Film Festival 2024, presented by Okx, today announced its full lineup of feature narrative, documentary, and animated films. This year’s Festival, which takes place June 5-16 in New York City showcases the best emerging talent from across the globe alongside established names.
Of particular note to horror fans, Tribeca Midnight is the “surprising, shocking, frightening, and thrilling” destination for the best in horror and more for late night audiences. Look for buzzy titles like The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. But the horror extends beyond the Midnight section, including the premiere of Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead.
Read on for the genre titles scheduled to premiere at Tribeca:
Spotlight Narrative
A launching pad for the most buzzworthy new films, Tribeca’s Spotlight section brings audiences anticipated premieres from acclaimed filmmakers and star performers.
The Damned, – World Premiere. When a ship sinks near her isolated fishing post,...
Of particular note to horror fans, Tribeca Midnight is the “surprising, shocking, frightening, and thrilling” destination for the best in horror and more for late night audiences. Look for buzzy titles like The Devil’s Bath, from filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. But the horror extends beyond the Midnight section, including the premiere of Amfad: All My Friends Are Dead.
Read on for the genre titles scheduled to premiere at Tribeca:
Spotlight Narrative
A launching pad for the most buzzworthy new films, Tribeca’s Spotlight section brings audiences anticipated premieres from acclaimed filmmakers and star performers.
The Damned, – World Premiere. When a ship sinks near her isolated fishing post,...
- 4/17/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen Stewart and more.
This year’s Competition lineup features films from a swath of international filmmakers including Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Hong Sangsoo, Bruno Dumont and Abderrahmane Sissako.
The Berlinale runs through February 25.
Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.
Another End ‘Another End’
Section: Competition
Director: Piero Messina
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, Pal Aron
Deadline’s takeaway: The script, while ambitious, is laden with philosophical musings that often feel detached from the emotional core of the story. Another End...
This year’s Competition lineup features films from a swath of international filmmakers including Olivier Assayas, Mati Diop, Hong Sangsoo, Bruno Dumont and Abderrahmane Sissako.
The Berlinale runs through February 25.
Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.
Another End ‘Another End’
Section: Competition
Director: Piero Messina
Cast: Gael García Bernal, Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, Pal Aron
Deadline’s takeaway: The script, while ambitious, is laden with philosophical musings that often feel detached from the emotional core of the story. Another End...
- 2/24/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury, Damon Wise, Pete Hammond and Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
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“Please make me a good wife to Wolf,” murmurs Agnes (Anja Plaschg) on her marriage night, head bowed in front of the crucifix she has already set up in the conjugal bedroom of the tumbledown stone farmhouse where she will live from now on. Wolf (David Scheid), meanwhile, is carousing with his fellow villagers at the wedding celebration, in no hurry to join her. We are deep in the Austrian forest in the 1750s, where life is governed by the cruelties of each season and everything has its place. The point of a woman is to work and have children; anyone who fails in these conjoined vocations is simply a dead weight. Agnes will do her best, but her airy spirits soon are sinking.
The Devil’s Bath, directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, is the powerful story of one woman’s madness, but it is also the story of...
The Devil’s Bath, directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, is the powerful story of one woman’s madness, but it is also the story of...
- 2/22/2024
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
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Austrian filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala seemingly never met a remote woodland setting that didn’t feel like the right place to strand a traumatized woman. Following Goodnight Mommy (the chilling 2014 original, not the limp American remake) and their English language debut The Lodge, they inch away from horror without relinquishing the unsettling atmosphere or taste for the macabre in their intense character study, The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad). While it’s punishingly grim and has some pacing issues, this is a gripping psychological study by directors operating with formidable command.
Early on, Franz and Fiala’s new film recalls Robert Eggers’ The Witch, despite being set more than a century later, in 1750. It has a comparable emphasis on ambience and authentic historical detail, which is possibly even more granular here. But vague suggestions of witchcraft quickly turn out to be misleading, with the story instead fueled by converging forces of religion,...
Early on, Franz and Fiala’s new film recalls Robert Eggers’ The Witch, despite being set more than a century later, in 1750. It has a comparable emphasis on ambience and authentic historical detail, which is possibly even more granular here. But vague suggestions of witchcraft quickly turn out to be misleading, with the story instead fueled by converging forces of religion,...
- 2/21/2024
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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Although it comes from the filmmaking duo behind “Goodnight Mommy” and “The Lodge,” Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s “The Devil’s Bath” is not a horror movie. Its sinister, woodsy atmospherics, where wet leaves mingle with mud and fishscales and menstrual blood, may suggest witchcraft or devil worship. But it is actually something far more frightening — an exploration, based on real records, of a chapter of Austrian history so dark it could be a black hole, which might account for its invisibility to posterity. But if the story is so pitilessly bleak you may want to look away, the filmmaking craft is so compelling that you can’t. The world of “The Devil’s Bath” is one that cannot be easily escaped, however much one might want, in the words of one of the women it emblematizes, “to be gone from it.”
With only a couple of feature acting credits to her name,...
With only a couple of feature acting credits to her name,...
- 2/20/2024
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
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The latest genre movie from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the directing duo behind the disturbing horror films Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, is The Devil’s Bath, which is set to have its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival this month. Before the movie’s festival screening, Variety reports that the Shudder streaming service has already picked up the rights to release The Devil’s Bath in North America, the U.K., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand sometime this summer. Variety also reports that Franz and Fiala have signed on to direct the psychological horror movie A Head Full of Ghosts, which is based on a novel by Paul Tremblay (you can pick up a copy of the book Here). Another novel written by Tremblay was The Cabin at the End of the World, which M. Night Shyamalan turned into Knock at the Cabin.
The Devil’s Bath – which has...
The Devil’s Bath – which has...
- 2/15/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
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A new psychological horror movie, The Devil’s Bath, is on the way from The Lodge and Goodnight Mommy filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. Variety reports that horror streaming service Shudder has acquired the film ahead of its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival.
The Devil’s Bath is expected to release this summer.
The German-language horror film is “set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her turmoil.”
The film stars Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger.
The Devil’s Bath is expected to release this summer.
The German-language horror film is “set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her turmoil.”
The film stars Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger.
- 2/13/2024
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
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Shudder, AMC Networks’ streaming service for horror films, thrillers and supernatural stories, has acquired “The Devil’s Bath,” the new film from Austrian horror auteurs Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala. The deal comes ahead of the psychological thriller’s world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it will play in competition.
Shudder has picked up all rights in North America, as well as in the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. “The Devil’s Bath” will be released this summer.
The German-language film is set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking...
Shudder has picked up all rights in North America, as well as in the U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. “The Devil’s Bath” will be released this summer.
The German-language film is set in 1750 Austria, at a time when villages were surrounded by deep forests. There, a deeply religious woman has married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking...
- 2/12/2024
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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It’s entirely possible that Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala would have waited it out for another Park City showing – Sundance launched the tandem’s third feature The Lodge back in 2019. Following their docu debut Kern (2012) and Goodnight Mommy (2014), The Devil’s Bath (aka Des Teufels Bad) went into production in January of last year — so this has been in post for a chunk of time. This film based on women, religion and ritual murders this is based on an unknown chapter of European history and stars Birgit Minichmayr, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Camilla Schielin and Anja Plaschg.…...
- 11/9/2023
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
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