The Hollywood Reporter called it “a feminist folk horror masterpiece that earns its despair.” Variety wrote: “Franz and Fiala have made a film less about scares than about sorrow—a slow-burn nightmare that lingers like winter.”
The Devil’s Bath (Des Teufels Bad): A Haunting Descent into 18th-Century Darkness
The 2024 folk-horror masterpiece (German: Des Teufels Bad ), directed by the visionary duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala , is not your typical jump-scare thriller. Instead, it is a harrowing, historically grounded exploration of religious dogma, female agency, and "indirect suicide" in 1750s Upper Austria.