The Devil's Bath
Shudder | Release Date: June 21, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
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Generally favorable reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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12
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90
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJul 2, 2024
The Devil's Bath is bleak but well worth the watch, especially if you like being guided down Franz and Fiala's dark, twisted rabbit hole. Read full review
88
Slant MagazinePat BrownJun 21, 2024
Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala depict Agnes’s plight with empathy but with a horror maven’s sense of ratcheting unease and encroaching doom. Read full review
85
Film ThreatSumner ForbesJul 19, 2024
The Devil’s Bath is one of the more memorable foreign horror movies in some time. Read full review
85
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJun 20, 2024
A fiery sermon of despondency and damnation, as well as a memorable nightmare of marriage, motherhood, and madness. Read full review
83
The PlaylistBrian FarvourJun 21, 2024
Previously, the filmmakers Franz and Fiala brought audiences into “The Lodge,” and 2014’s “Goodnight Mommy” and “The Devil’s Bath” is their finest, possibly most upsetting work yet. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 18, 2024
This haunted and harrowing psychodrama — based on surviving records from the 18th century, and rooted in the day-to-day tedium of Styrian farm life — has too much respect for its emotionally isolated heroine to frame her unraveling as part of a broader phenomenon. Read full review
80
ColliderShawn Van HornJun 28, 2024
The Devil's Bath is as bleak and hopeless as it gets, but if you give it a chance, it will change you. Read full review
80
IGNKatie RifeJun 27, 2024
This is a relentlessly grim film with an unsettling view of human nature; its audience will be small and self-selecting, but those who like having their guts ripped out by a movie will leave the theater satisfied. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJun 21, 2024
The Devil’s Bath is a deeply fucked-up picture. I say that with admiration. Read full review
75
Paste MagazineKathy Michelle ChacónJun 26, 2024
The Devil’s Bath is motivated by its character study, exploring the dread found at the intersections of rural peasant life, untreated mental health issues, a patriarchal environment and religious dogma through its almost documentary-like lens. Read full review
75
The Film StageSavina PetkovaJun 10, 2024
There’s something hypnotic in the rhythms of the film, seeing how troubles that could be easily resolved are left to fester; now there is no going back. Read full review
70
The New York TimesBeatrice LoayzaJun 20, 2024
The film is grounded in a harrowing historical reality, about the terrifying lengths to which women will go to liberate themselves from destructive domestic conditions. Franz and Fiala bring out this reality’s latent horrors through a series of suspense-building strategies. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsJun 28, 2024
This movie’s not frustrating because it’s blunt or vicious, but because its creators are only so interested in a world condemning Agnes to a dire fate. Her actions may ultimately be shocking, but her story is anything but. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubMatt DonatoJun 27, 2024
Mileage will vary, dictated by your appreciation for methodical avalanches of sorrow driven by puritanical pressures. Everything is minimalistic, punctuated by the devastating context found in the research that helped shape Franz and Fiala’s screenplay. Some viewers will recognize dedication, others will have their patience tested. Read full review
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