Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala (The Lodge, Goodnight Mommy) are back with another feature, The Devil’s Bath, which hits Shudder on June 28 – and today’s trailer promises that this one is just as eerie as the pair’s previous films.
Starring Anja Plaschg, David Scheid, Maria Hofstätter, Camilla Schielin, and Lorenz Tröbinger, The Devil’s Bath is based on real historical events, and shot on gorgeous 35mm.
A full plot synopsis reads:
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.
If you’re in New York, you can catch The Devil’s Bath a week early on June 21 at the IFC Center.
We’re getting a ton of delicious folk horror vibes from this trailer, very reminiscent of Franz and Fiala’s segment titled The Sinful Women of Hollfall in the 2018 anthology The Field Guide to Evil.
Early reviews of The Devil’s Bath have called it “pitilessly bleak” and “punishingly grim” – sign us up!
Here’s the new official trailer and poster – catch The Devil’s Bath wherever you can as soon as possible.
