Hagazussa ~upd~ Jun 2026

Cinematographer Mariel Baqueiro shoots the Austrian Alps as a character of sublime cruelty. The fog does not look mystical; it looks suffocating. The color palette is drained of warmth—muted grays, diseased greens, and the muddy brown of thawing corpses. Unlike The Witch , which is meticulously lit to look like a Dutch painting, Hagazussa looks like a medieval woodcut: flat, brutal, and crude.

The story follows Albrun, a goat herder living in extreme isolation who is tormented by her community and haunted by her mother’s traumatic death. Review: HAGAZUSSA is an Unsettling Piece of Folklore Horror Hagazussa

In a world of chaos, she stands as a guiding light, A beacon of hope, in the dark of night. Hagazussa, a guardian of the old ways, A keeper of the mysteries, in a world that's lost its gaze. Cinematographer Mariel Baqueiro shoots the Austrian Alps as

The film follows (played by Aleksandra Cwen), a young woman living in isolation in the mountains during the Middle Ages. The narrative is loosely divided into chapters: Unlike The Witch , which is meticulously lit