The Devil's Bath
2024 · Movie · 121 min · ★ 6.6 · 81% critics
In 1750s rural Austria, a newly married woman finds her hopeful new life narrowing into relentless chores, rigid religious rules, and crushing isolation. As her despair deepens, she begins to believe that only an unthinkable act could free her from the inner prison closing in around her.
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Details
- Original title
- Des Teufels Bad
- Years
- 2024
- Release date
- 2024-03-08
- Language
- German
- Runtime
- 121 min
- Critic score
- 81/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.6/10 (165 votes)
About
You may like this if you want a grim, history-rooted folk-horror slow burn with heavy themes of isolation and faith, in the vein of Goodnight Mommy or The Lodge; Not for you if you need fast scares or a lighter watch.
Pros: bleak, immersive period setting; haunting mood; strong lead performance | Cons: very slow pacing; relentlessly depressing tone; unsettling violence themes
Themes
- village
- melancholy
- austria
- forest
- 18th century
- infanticide
- folk horror
- period piece
Awards & recognition
- Sitges Film Festival Best Feature-Length Film award · 2024
Cast & crew
Anja Plaschg
as Agnes
Maria Hofstätter
as Mother-in-law Gänglin
David Scheid
as Wolf
Natalija Baranova
as Ewa Schikin
Lukas Walcher
as Lukas
- AL
Agnes Lampl
- CS
Camilla Schilien
Lorenz Tröbinger
- RF
Reinhold Felsinger
- ES
Elias Schützenhofer
as Michael
Directed by Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala