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Shudder is re-releasing Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala‘s period feature The Devil’s Bath for a North American theatrical run next week. The special theatrical run comes after the film was selected as Austria’s Academy Award submission.

Watch The Devil’s Bath in select theaters on November 13, 2024.

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 shocking act of violence seems like...

Welcome to Deadline’s roundup of the submissions for this year’s Best International Feature Film Oscar category. Below you will find details on each movie that has been officially put forward so far. The official deadline for submission was 5pm Pt October 2. We’ve rounded up 86 submissions so far, against 88 last year, but announcements continue to trickle in. Keeping checking in for updates.

This is a hotly contested race that often results in clear front-runners but also surprising gems. Click on titles for links to reviews, first looks, news and more.

In alphabetical order by country, these are the entries so far:

Albania

Title: Waterdrop

Director: Robert Budina

Prod: Erafilm

Notes: Waterdrop, which will have its festival premiere in Warsaw next month, is set on the shores of Lake Ohrid where City Planner Aida, a tough and successful businesswoman, manages the allocation of lucrative EU subsidies, navigating a corrupt system.

La inquietante cinta de Veronika Franz y Severin Fiala representará a Austria en los Oscars 2025 y se estrena en cines en noviembre.

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El sábado se dio a conocer el palmarés del Festival Internacional de Cine Fantástico de Sitges 2024 y la gran triunfadora ha sido El baño del diablo (The Devil’s Bath), que se ha llevado el premio a la Mejor Película, además del Premio de la Crítica y el Premio del Jurado Joven.

La decisión del máximo galardón fue tomada por el jurado, compuesto por la programadora Lisa Dreyer, el escritor y músico Stephen Thrower, y los cineastas Christophe Gans, Fred Dekker y Carlota Pereda. Christophe Gans elogió la película afirmando: «Es una gran película a todos los niveles», y destacó la «fotografía tan pictórica» y la sobresaliente interpretación de su protagonista, Anja Plaschg. En particular, destacó la «escena de la confesión» como uno de los momentos más memorables del festival.

To the outside observer it may seem like every single year is called “one of the best years for horror ever,” but I’m going to let you in on a little secret: It’s never a bad year for horror. The entertainment industry damn near runs on scary movies, which are cheap to produce and able to take artistic risks that bigger budget genre films — the ones that have to sell tickets to everybody just to break in — are too timid to even consider. You can always find great horror movies. The trick is knowing where to look.

And that right there is the trick, because smaller movies don’t have huge advertising budgets, and they don’t drive traffic so publications can’t always allocate the resources to cover them. Great horror movies fall through the cracks all the time. Heck, even major theatrical releases don’t get...

Anja Plaschg is Agnes and the composer of the score for Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s deep-rooted and incisive The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad), shot by Martin Gschlacht

Based on historical records from mid-18th century Upper Austria, Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil’s Bath drops us into a rural society with strict codes governing the here and the hereafter. A baby cries, as its older brother conducts a shadow play on the laundry hung out to dry in the sun. He is called back into the house by an adult male voice, while the mother picks up the infant and walks with it through the forest up to a waterfall.

Veronika Franz on Anja Plaschg doing the score for The Devil’s Bath: “We approached her in the beginning only for the music because we wanted her to compose the score and asked her if she would read the script.

This article contains discussions of suicide and child abuse.

2024 is shaping up to be a hot year for horror, but its most stunning release is already streaming on Shudder. The Devil's Bath may shock even the most seasoned genre fans not only with its grim imagery and powerful performances, but with its basis in fact. Filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are known for their violent psychological thrillers. Their latest film is a folk horror masterpiece that deals with one of the most troubling true stories to grace the screen.

Folk horror is an umbrella term for films that utilize folklore to create a sense of fear and dread. These films may or may not include supernatural elements, but they typically involve arcane or esoteric beliefs such as the superstitions that fueled the Salem witch trials. The rigorously-researched The Devil's Bath uses a rural, religious setting to explore the...

Austria has selected Berlinale award-winner The Devil’s Bath as its entry for international feature at the Oscars 2025.

The historical thriller is directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala and won the Silver Bear in cinematography at Berlinale earlier this year.

Set in Austria in 1750, the film stars Anja Plaschg as an oppressed, newly married woman who commits a shocking act of violence. The film topped Screen’s Berlin jury grid along with My Favourite Cake, with both films scoring 3.1.

It is produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, co-founded by Ulrich Seidl and Franz, in co-production with Heimatfilm Cologne & Coop99. France’s Playtime handles international sales.

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s period horror movie The Devil’s Bath will represent Austria in the Best International Feature Film category of the 97th annual Academy Awards.

The submission was decided by a jury of experts and announced by the Film & Music Association of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.

The film, starring Anja Plaschg, premiered in Competition at the 2024 Berlinale, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Cinematography (Martin Gschlacht).

The feature is produced by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion, in co-production with Heimatfilm Cologne & Coop99.

Set against the backdrop of 18th century Austria, Plaschg stars as a woman trapped in a marriage with a disinterested husband and controlling mother-in-law who makes her life hell.

Struggling with the isolation and despair of her unfulfilling existence, she descends down a dark and disturbing path.

Related: The 2025 Oscars: Everything We Know So Far About The Nominations, Ceremony, Date & Host

Based on historical...

“The Devil’s Bath,” a period psychological thriller which competed at the Berlin Film Festival, has been submitted by Austria as its official Oscar entry for the international feature film race. The film picked up the Silver Bear for best cinematography (for Martin Gschlacht) at the Berlinale.

“The Devil’s Bath” is directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the Austrian filmmaking duo behind “Goodnight Mommy” which had bowed at Venice and had also represented Austria in the Oscar race. It went on to be remade into an English-language film released by Amazon under the same title, starring Naomi Watts.

Set in rural Austria in 1750, “The Devil’s Bath” stars Anja Plaschg, the up-and-coming singer and composer known as Soap & Skin. Plaschg plays Agnes, a young married woman who feels oppressed in her husband’s world, which is devoid of emotions and limited to chores and expectations. A pious and highly sensitive woman,...

In June, Shudder released a movie that is impossible to shake if you watch it. The Austrian/German horror film The Devil's Bath, written and directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (the team behind Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge), is not a supernatural nightmare about witchcraft or demonic possession, despite what the title might allude to. Instead, it's something much darker in its bleak realism. Starring musician turned actor Anja Plaschg, The Devil's Bath is a deep dive into the darkness of depression. It's a powerful movie, and one that's admittedly difficult to watch due to the intensity of its subject matter. When it's over, you want to breathe a sigh of relief, as you tell yourself "It was just a movie. It was just a movie." Unfortunately, it's not. Franz and Fiala actually based The Devil's Bath on a real life woman and hundreds more just like her.

The Devil’s Bath, the latest from The Lodge and Goodnight Mommy filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, mines its horror from history. The psychological period film, set in 1750 Austria, follows the disturbing unraveling of a woman pushed toward evil, but it initially began life as a courtroom drama.

The Devil’s Bath is now available to stream on Shudder and stars Anja Plaschg as Agnes, a deeply religious woman embarking on a new life as a newlywed. But poor Agnes struggles to adjust to her new life. She finds herself 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.

Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala get viewers intimately acquainted with Agnes and her fragile mental state, delivering unrelenting, melancholic experiential horror. But the filmmakers originally had a very different...

The Devil's Bath, set in 1750 Austria, follows a deeply religious woman, Agnes, whose dreams of happiness are shattered by societal expectations. Her descent into despair and misguided faith leads to a dark and disturbing climax. Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala explore the limits of the human spirit and the dangers of limiting a person to chores and obligations. Anja Plaschg's exceptional performance anchors the film, showcasing Agnes' emotional decline.

Writer-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are no strangers to crafting disturbing films that remain in the audience's psyche. The Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge duo brings us a new Shudder horror film that draws from history, but its resonance is undeniable. Unsettling atmosphere, grim imagery, and a frightening story are now the norm for the dynamic pair, and The Devil's Bath (2024) is a truly intense experience.

The Devil's Bath (2024)

Director Veronika Franz, Severin FialaRelease Date March 8, 2024Studio(s) Heimatfilm,...

We’re in a bit of a doldrums period for viable movie awards contenders on streaming, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good movies hitting streaming services all the time. Today, for example, Apple TV+ is putting up “Fancy Dance,” our top streaming movie pick of the weekend. The drama stars Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone in her first movie released since “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

In “Fancy Dance,” Gladstone stars as Jax, a resident of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation Reservation. Her sister is missing, and she and her niece Roki (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) set out to find her. The film was a hit at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and has earned positive reviews for first-time writer-director Erica Tremblay and Gladstone, who gives a powerhouse performance as a woman trying to care for her family in the face of a system that doesn’t care about women like them.

Given that the previous two films by the Austrian aunt-nephew directing duo of Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala are 2015’s Goodnight Mommy and 2020’s The Lodge, it’s only natural to watch their latest feature, The Devil’s Bath, with the constant expectation of some terrifying other shoe to drop. But while there are plenty of stomach-churning sights and sounds here, the scares come less from the filmmaking and more from society itself in this tale that examines the 18th-century phenomenon of suicide by proxy.

It may not be a horror film, but this gripping historical drama feels entirely in keeping with Franz and Fiala’s previous work. What ties their films together is an astute analysis of the strange brew of emotions women face when forced to enact rigid roles of gender performance. For Anja Plaschg’s Agnes, that confinement comes in the form of a loveless marriage, extensive responsibilities...

“Goodnight Mommy” directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala deliver another twisted tale of familicide on the rural edges of Austria with “The Devil’s Bath.” Set in 1750, the movie draws from actual historical accounts of depressed women who avoided suicide by murdering children to get themselves executed, thereby granting them salvation from Hell.

Franz and Fiala, whose last feature was 2019’s English-language cult-survivor horror “The Lodge,” evade traditional thriller elements like jump scares and plot twists. Instead, this is a harrowing psychodrama that explores ritualistic child killings that allegedly overtook Europe in the 18th century as women’s reprieve from the bottomless pit of despair.

For “The Devil’s Bath,” which premiered at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival and is now in theaters, the Austrian filmmaking duo plumbed troves of research courtesy of Uc Davis professor and historian Kathy Stuart, who spoke about this “suicide by proxy” phenomenon on a blip of a...

The halfway point of 2024 is already here, and what a strange year it’s been so far. In terms of box office, the genre’s gotten off to a sluggish start compared to previous years, save for a surprise international hit that’s taken Asian markets by storm. It’s also been a big year for twin films, with dual spider flicks Sting and Infested unleashing arachnophobic terror, followed by the dueling nun horror movies Immaculate and The First Omen. Speaking of the latter, horror prequels – including A Quiet Place: Day One – have offered some of the year’s biggest horror surprises so far, along with buzzy indie darlings like Late Night with the Devil and In a Violent Nature.

This summer’s only getting warmed up for horror releases, with some of the year’s most anticipated titles on the immediate horizon. MaXXXine and Longlegs are just around the corner,...

It’s rare for a festival like the Berlinale to allow a genre film in its main competition, and this year it was Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s third feature, The Devil’s Bath, that stood out. The period horror film is drenched in shades of gray and dark greens, painting a 1750s Upper Austria as a place of tangible terror. Country life was simple and labor, divided: a man works, a woman bears children. One such story anchors The Devil’s Bath, where young Agnes marries a nice guy but cannot get pregnant. She spirals into depression—the film’s title references the way mental illness was conceptualized then, as a space owned by the devil—and sinks deeper, ever so helpless.

Fiala and Franz are two of the most influential European genre filmmakers working today and they are meticulous in every single aspect of their filmmaking. They write and...

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,...

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 BathImage: IFC Films

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...

The Devils Bath is one of the more somber films to hit the screen in some time, but its also a mesmerizing if not haunting meditation on one of the most ominous and overlooked phenomena in modern history. Written and directed by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz, the story is set in 1750 Austria, where a deeply religious woman named Agnes begins to feel so lonely and trapped in her confined life that she considers committing a shocking act of violence as the only way out of her misery.

The film recalls Midsommar, but cuts deeper. Culling from research, the filmmakers ultimately illuminate how women throughout Europe during that era attempted to end their lives by committing ritualistic acts of murder. In their eyes, it was a way to overstep the eternal damnation of committing suicide. By confessing their murderous crime, the women would be executed yet cleansed of their sins,...

Plot: Austria in the 18th century. Forests surround villages. Killing a baby gets a woman sentenced to death. Agnes readies for married life with her beloved. But her mind and heart grow heavy. A gloomy path alone, evil thoughts arising.

Review: Depression has been the backbone of many films for some time now. Whether it’s Midsommar and depression caused by loss, or heck even back to Jimmy Stewart in It’s A Wonderful Life, it can really shape a narrative. And it’s only recently that we’ve started to become more accepting of mental health problems. Given how much human history exists, there are countless real-life events that highlight just how primitive we as humans can be. The Devil’s Bath does its job to highlight a time in Austrian history that most would rather forget.

Inspired by a historian on This American Life, The Devil’s Bath follows a woman named Agnes,...

It’s Austria, circa 1750, and we open on a woman, devoid of emotion, as she quietly and chillingly casts her newborn over the side of a waterfall. This is how the creepy “The Devil’s Bath” begins.

Make it through such a scene, and the idea that Robert Eggers or Ari Aster-esque folk horror is to follow might start to take root. This is not the case; the occasional jump scare and disturbing imagery notwithstanding, “The Devil’s Bath” sits far more comfortably as a psychodrama analyzing a newlywed’s place in society when bearing children becomes impossible and an escape from the role her family views as nothing short of inevitable leads down a truly upsetting path.

Continue reading ‘The Devil’s Bath’ Review: Anja Plaschg Shines In A Dour, Moody, 18th-Century Psychological Joyride at The Playlist.

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...

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.

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,...

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...

The Devil's Bath combines historical period drama with folk-horror elements for a haunting psychological study. The film leverages its setting to create an atmosphere of looming tragedy over traditional scares. Fans of A24's best horror movies like The Witch and Midsommar will be enticed by The Devil's Bath.

After premiering at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival, writer-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala's The Devil's Bath secured an exclusive US streaming release on Shudder. Unlike many of 2024's other horror films I'm excited about the big-budget A Quiet Place: Day One or Ti West's trilogy-capping MaXXXine The Devil's Bath is a historical period drama that suggests a folk-horror bent. Starring Anja Plaschg, the Austrian artist behind the experimental musical project Soap&Skin, the film centers on an 18th-century Austrian woman named Agnes, who marries Wolf (David Scheid), a man she truly loves.

However, the couple's would-be marital bliss takes...

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They All Came Out To Montreux, Oliver Murray’s fantastic tribute to Montreux Jazz Festival founder Claude Nobs; Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin), shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival); Dana Flor’s Ani Difranco film, 1-800-on-her-own; David Hinton’s Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger with Martin Scorsese as our guide; Vinko Tomicic’s The...

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…...

"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 ›...

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:

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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.

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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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...

Trish Dalton and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Diane von Furstenberg: Woman In Charge will open the 23rd edition of the Tribeca Festival. Photo: Anne Katrin Titze

In the Spotlight Documentary program Kelly Anderson and Jay Arthur Sterrenberg’s (co-founder of the Meerkat Media Collective) Emergent City on the Sunset Park community efforts to reign in the developers of the waterfront property now known as Industry City in Brooklyn, New York and Dana Flor’s 1-800-on-her-own on the professional and personal journey singer/songwriter/activist Ani Difranco (who is currently starring on Broadway in Anäis Mitchell’s Hadestown) has taken to remain an independent voice in the music world, plus in the Midnight section Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala’s The Devil's Bath (Des Teufels Bad) starring Anja Plaschg (who is also the composer as Soap&Skin), shot by Martin Gschlacht (Silver Bear winner in the 2024 Berlin Film Festival), executive...

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,...

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 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,...

Early Modern times were messy: Europe was finding its footing in rationalism, seeking independence from the centuries-long spiritual yoke of Catholicism and Protestantism. Shedding the skin of the past seems, at least from our standpoint today, the best thing that could have happened to modern man. Preempting industrialization and a desire-fulfilling capitalist society, the journey towards Enlightenment positioned its preceding times as “The Dark Ages.” But the freedom to live or die was certainly a luxury for many––especially women caught in the patriarchal webs of rural life. Ewa Lizlfellner was one such woman who didn’t want to live, but to die.

In the 18th-century common beliefs, “the devil’s bath” figured as a metaphor for depression and suicidal ideation. Judging from the phrase alone––replete with pejoratives and a particularly spatialized horror––one can gather exactly how unfitting it was to be of “ill” mental health. While the...

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...

“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...

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,...

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,...

Playtime has had a busy EFM, where it’s locked a raft of major deals on “The Devil’s Bath,” a period psychological thriller in competition at the Berlin Film Festival.

“The Devil’s Bath” is directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the Austrian filmmaking duo behind “Goodnight Mommy.”

Set in rural Austria in 1750, “The Devil’s Bath” stars Anja Plaschg, the up-and-coming singer and composer known as Soap & Skin. Plaschg plays Agnes, a young married woman who feels oppressed in her husband’s world, which is devoid of emotions and limited to chores and expectations. A pious and highly sensitive woman, Agnes falls into a deep depression, before committing a shocking act of violence that she sees as the only way out of her inner prison.

“The Devil’s Bath” has been bought by Klockworx (Japan), Cine Canibal (Latin America), Russian World Vision (Cis excluding Ukraine), September Films (Benelux), Movies Inspired (Italy...

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...

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.

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...

Playtime has boarded “The Devil’s Bath,” a period psychological thriller directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the Austrian filmmaking duo behind the critical and commercial hit “Goodnight Mommy.”

The movie reteams Franz and Fiala with Ulrich Seidl, who also produced “Goodnight Mommy.”

Set in rural Austria in 1750, “The Devil’s Bath” stars Anja Plaschg, the up-and-coming singer and composer known as Soap & Skin. Plaschg plays Agnes, a young married woman who feels oppressed in her husband’s world which is devoid of emotions and limited to chores and expectations. A pious and highly sensitive woman, Agnes falls into a deep depression, before committing a shocking act of violence that she sees as the only way out of her inner prison.

Along with starring in “The Devil’s Bath,” Plaschg also composed the music for the film. Based on historical records, the movie is inspired by the true stories...

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In IFC Films’ Corsage, Vicky Krieps stars as Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known affectionately as Sisi) during a particular life crisis: middle age. After turning 40, the celebrated beauty finds herself fading — at least, she’s convinced as much. With her children grown and her relationship with Emperor Franz Joseph I threatened by her indifference to royal obligations, the disaffected royal becomes bored with her life, wanting nothing more than to hide away from the public that still watches her every move as if she were a 19th century influencer.

Marie Kreutzer

Writer-director Marie Kreutzer’s irreverent biopic mixes the stoicism of a classic costume drama with postmodern twists, incorporating anachronistic songs (a chamber version of the Rolling Stones’ “As Tears Go By” is heard on the soundtrack) and modern-day vulgar hand gestures. The film also plays fast and loose with historical accuracy; rather than a traditional biography,...