Devil's Bath, The (2024)

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Synopsis

Dir: Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz. German-language Thriller/Horror. Based on the book 'Suicide By Proxy In Early Modern Germany: Crime, Sin, And Salvation' by Kathy Stuart. After her marriage to an emotionally distant man (David Scheid), a devoutly religious 18th Century woman (Anja Plaschg) falls into a deep depression.

Content elements

• Infrequent use of cursing and sexual slurs
• Frequent portrayals of weapon and hand-to-hand violence, some involving children and animals, some in a self-harm context - some blood and gory detail; infrequent portrayals of beheading - blood and gory detail
• Frequent portrayals of corpses, once in a suicide context; infrequent portrayals of nightmarish imagery, some involving animals - some blood and detail
• Infrequent portrayals of animal butchery - some blood, detail
• Infrequent portrayals of sexual activity - female front and buttock nudity, some detail
• Infrequent breast and buttock nudity in a non-sexual context
• Infrequent portrayals of alcohol use in a recreational context
• Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions - little detail

Thematic elements

• Mental illness
• Family dynamics
• Guilt and salvation

Classification rationale

Rated 14A for disturbing content, violence, and nudity

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