The true story ofThe Devil’s Bath: How a long-forgotten suicide-by-proxy epidemic inspired the terrifying new film
Sometimes, the best scary stories come from our own dark history. The pair discovered the story that would inspire their German-language film while listening to an American podcast. In Vienna alone, there were 95 cases of suicide by proxy between 1668 and 1783. Anja Plaschg in ‘The Devil’s Bath’.Shudder/Everett It was kind of strange to us to get to know this. That was the emotional starting point of the whole story....