Agnes (Anja Plaschg) puts a crown on her head in 'The Devil's Bath'
The Big Picture The newest release on Shudder, The Devil's Bath, has a title that immediately demands your attention, but it's when you press play that it will grab you by the throat and not let you look away, no matter how much you might want to. Written and directed by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the duo behind the chilling horror films Goodnight Mommy and The Lodge, The Devil's Bath succeeds at topping those works.
Following this jolt of an intro, the plot turns brighter for the briefest of moments, as we witness the wedding of young Agnes and her new husband, Wolf . After a celebration, which involves using a live chicken as a piñata, Wolf blindfolds his excited wife to show her a surprise gift. It turns out that Wolf has bought his bride a home, done so without consulting her, in an area away from the family she loves.
This movie, however, is all about Agnes. Played by Anja Plaschg, an Austrian musician who goes by the name Soap&Skin, The Devil's Bath is just her third film role, and her first in eight years. You'd never know that Plaschg has such little experience and would assume she's a veteran actress you're simply not familiar with.
'The Devil's Bath' Looks at Depression in Ways Never Seen Before Plenty of films have told stories about depression, done in convincing fashion by the likes of Melancholia, The Hours, The Virgin Suicides, and Ordinary People just to name a few, but The Devil's Bath differs in the lens its story is told through. This isn't our modern world, but hundreds of years ago, in an era that doesn't understand why someone would mentally fall apart.
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