When Irene (Franziska Weisz) takes a job as a night porter at a remote Austrian hotel, she learns that the young woman who previously held her position disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

Austrian auteur Jessica Hausner radically upends genre tropes and preempts the resurgence of folk horror in her sophomore feature, a grand treatise on the inhibiting potential of imagination, the fine line between banality and terror, and the looming specter of fate.

“A haunting film about labor, obedience [and] that intangible presence of workplace ghosts.” –Fangoria

DIRECTED BY JESSICA HAUSNER
AUSTRIA, GERMANY | 2004 | GERMAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES