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Jun 28, 2024 · Austrian filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala ( Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge) found that to be true with their new movie, The Devil’s Bath, which is based on a largely forgotten...
Jun 28, 2024 · Directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala ( Goodnight Mommy, The Lodge ), The Devil’s Bath is a bleak but mesmerising portrait of female melancholia in 18th century Austria, one based on...
Jun 27, 2024 · 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.
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Jun 25, 2024 · Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala specialize in disturbing audiences. But “The Devil’s Bath” is dark, even for the directors of “Goodnight Mommy.” Based on a little-known historical phenomenon called suicide by proxy, the film explores the pressures society places on women by placing viewers in the very different moral universe of 18th ...
Jun 28, 2024 · Franz and Fiala’s film never seeks to excuse or exonerate this unholiest of two-for-one entry deals into heaven. Instead, their patient lens looks to explain how such a horrifying act has deeply human roots. I spoke with Franz and Fiala ahead of the Shudder release of The Devil’s Bath.
Jun 24, 2024 · Filmmakers Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala talk about drawing from historical records provided to them by historian Kathy Stuart, tapping into the emotional core and inner horrors of the characters, giving voice to them in a cinematic way, and more!
Jun 28, 2024 · “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.”
