The Devil's Bath
Des Teufels Bad
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.
Why it matters
A claustrophobic descent into 18th-century religious repression, where faith and madness blur into a haunting psychological horror.
- A simmering slow-burn that channels folk horror’s obsession with ritual and isolation, echoing the likes of *The Witch* and *The Nightingale*
- Agnes’s torment is rendered with unsettling intimacy, anchored by a performance that captures the suffocating weight of duty and despair
- Practical period details and oppressive atmosphere ground the film’s creeping dread in historical authenticity
- For fans of character-driven horror that explores how piety can become a prison—dark, quiet, and morally complex rather than jump-scare reliant
Directors
4 horror films in catalog
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
0
Slow Burn
66
Psychological
29
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
67
Fun Factor
0
Cerebral
85
Survival
17
