Horror movies directed by Veronika Franz

How The Devil's Bath scares: Watching this feels like being slowly buried under gray skies and endless chores, with no jolts or shocks to break the tension, just a steady sinking feeling. The dread here comes from watching a mind quietly fall apart under isolation, religious guilt, and a life with no way out, not from any monster or killer. It moves at a crawl, lingering on mud, ritual, and silence until the weight becomes almost unbearable. This is heavy, art-house horror for people who want to feel true despair rather than get a fun scare, and it stays with you long after it ends.

How The Lodge scares: The Lodge sits with you in cold, quiet rooms and lets dread build for long stretches without ever cutting away for relief. It uses isolation, grief, and a growing sense that reality itself is slipping to create unease, rather than jump scares or on-screen violence. The fear here is all in your head and your gut sense that something is deeply wrong, not in blood or chases. This is a heavy, bleak watch meant for people who like slow, punishing dread and don't need a fun payoff at the end.

How The Field Guide to Evil scares: Watching this feels like flipping through a strange old book of local legends, where each new story pulls you into a different country's nightmares and a different mood. The pace is slow and dreamlike rather than jumpy, built more on strange rituals, odd folklore, and unease than on loud scares. Some segments lean creepy and quiet, others get stranger and more grotesque, so the feeling shifts a lot from one story to the next. It's best for people who like weird, artsy horror and folklore over fast thrills or constant gore.

How Goodnight Mommy scares: There's a quiet, suffocating unease that builds for most of the runtime, like something is wrong in a way you can't quite name. The pace is patient and deliberate, favoring long silences and strange domestic routines over any kind of jump scare, so the dread creeps in slowly rather than jolting you. Things shift hard in the back half, turning cold and physically uncomfortable in a way that's hard to shake afterward. This is for people who want a slow, mind-bending kind of horror rooted in family and identity, not gore-driven thrills, though it does get rough near the end.