Hagazussa ◆

Feigelfeld uses recurring images — goats, bloodied linens, mirrors, and ritualistic traces — to blur the boundary between the mundane and the pathological. These motifs accumulate meaning slowly: a goat may symbolize pagan survival at odds with Christian doctrine; stains and bodily decay mark the erosive passage of grief and isolation. The film’s restrained special effects, when present, feel organic and grotesque rather than gimmicky.

Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse (2017), directed by Lukas Feigelfeld, is a slow-burning, sensory-rich folktale film that reimagines the witch-hunt archetype through a raw, immersive portrait of psychological and cultural decay. Set in the isolated Austrian Alps across the late 15th century and onward, the film follows Albrun (Aleksandra Cwen), the daughter of a woman widely suspected of witchcraft, as solitude, superstition, and trauma conspire to unmoor her sense of reality. Hagazussa

For content looking at the 2017 folk-horror film Hagazussa: A Heathen’s Curse Feigelfeld uses recurring images — goats, bloodied linens,