History Film / Sauna

* TheCorruption: The touch of the ultimate evil manifests as this, resulting in the loss of teeth, oozing of the black filth, insanity and death.

* EyeScream: Some of the people who are touched by the ultimate evil claw out their eyes. Humans aren't the only ones susceptible, either - one of the first signs that something is wrong in the swamp is when they find a dead dog that has clawed out its eyes, as well.

* TearsOfBlood: Well, thick, black filth. A large crucifix statue is at one point shown bleeding the stuff from its face, and all the victims of the ultimate evil follow suit.

* TheCorruption: The touch of the UltimateEvil manifests as this, resulting in the loss of teeth, oozing of the black filth, insanity and death.

* EyeScream: Some of the people who are touched by the UltimateEvil claw out their eyes. Humans aren't the only ones susceptible, either - one of the first signs that something is wrong in the swamp is when they find a dead dog that has clawed out its eyes, as well.

* TearsOfBlood: Well, thick, black filth. A large crucifix statue is at one point shown bleeding the stuff from its face, and all the victims of the UltimateEvil follow suit.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:EverybodyDies, Erik and Knut get taken over by the UltimateEvil, and there's still confusion about who the swamp belongs to so it's possible there's going to be another expedition.]]

* TheGrimReaper: Not present personally, but an old icon is found from a shack that invokes the image by depicting only a monk whose face is completely hidden in the shadow of his hood. Some have interpreted this as an attempted anthropomorphization of the UltimateEvil.

* UltimateEvil: The thing in the darkness is never shown, but it's there. Whether it's a sentient, malevolent creature, or simply an undefinable force, is something left to the viewers' imagination.

* ArcWords: "Come back," "Wash your sins," "filth."

* BaldOfAwesome: Erik has his hair closed cropped.

* BloodFromTheMouth: Along with loose teeth.

* [[spoiler:DownerEnding: EverybodyDies, Erik and Knut get taken over by the UltimateEvil, and there's still confusion about who the swamp belongs to so it's possible there's going to be another expedition.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Erik argues this to Knut, reminding that it was he who locked the girl in the cellar, not to protect her from Erik as he claims, but because ''he'' wanted to rape her, and put her there to resist the urge.

* InfantImmortality. [[spoiler: Subverted]]

* ArcNumber: 73 [[spoiler:it's the number of times Erik stabbed the girl's father, the number of people in the village, and the number of people Erik has killed]].

* CampbellCountry: The nameless village definitely counts as a Nordic example of the trope.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Used in the film, almost word for word: "Perhaps it is not really a sauna, but something that we cannot comprehend."

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Used in the film, almost word from word: "Perhaps it is not really a sauna, but something that we cannot comprehend."

* UltimateEvil: The thing in the darkness is never shown, but it's there. Whether it's a sentient, malevolent creature, or simply an undefinable force, is something left at the viewers' imagination.

* TearsOfBlood: Well, thick, black filth. A large crucifix statue is at one point shown bleeding the stuff from its face, and all the victims of the UltimateEvil follow the suit.

* ArcNumber: 73.

* YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm: Used in the film, almost word from word: "Perhaps it is not really a sauna, but something that we cannot comprehend."

* ShellShockedSenior: Erik is only 41 years old, but in the 16th century that is an extremely old age for a soldier, and he demonstrates just about every aspect of this trope.

* DeliberatelyMonochrome: There is no color in this film exept orange firelight and red blood.

* [[spoiler:InfantImmortality. spoiler: Subverted]]

* InfantImmortality. [[spoiler: Subverted]]

* CampbellCountry: The nameless village definately counts as a Nordic example of the trope.

* EyeScream: Some of the people who are touched by the UltimateEvil claw out their eyes. Humans aren't the only ones suspectible, either - one of the first signs that something is wrong in the swamp is when they find a dead dog that has clawed out its eyes, as well.

!!This film gives examples of:

* ArcWords: "Come back", "Wash your sins", "filth".

* InfantImmortality. [[spoiler:First appears to be played straight, but ultimately subverted hard.]]

* StringyHairedGhostGirl: A rare blonde example, though the blank gunk she oozes makes it hard to tell.

* UltimateEvil: The thing in the darkness is never shown, but it's there. Whether it's a sentient, malevolent creature, or simply an undefinable force is something left at the viewers' imagination.

* GenusLoci: The Sauna itself.

''"Wash your sins."''

The second feature-length film by the Finnish director AJ Annila, ''Sauna'', premiered at 2008, is a piece of SurrealHorror that delwes into the darkness of the human heart.

On their way, the brothers murder a peasant man in a fit of rage, and leave his daughter to die, locked in a cellar. As they keep going, visions and fits of guilt haunt them, as they debate whether they should return to let the girl out. It is then, when they come across an unmarked village in the middle of a swamp, with a mysterious sauna standing on its edge. The superstitious villagers are mortally afraid of the place, but at the same time hold a belief that in this sauna a person can wash away their past sins for good. The sauna beckons the brothers to step inside, but is the person who steps in the same who comes out?

* BlindWithoutEm: Knut gave Erik a pair of glasses, a remarkable rarity in the 16th century, knowing about his brother's bad eyesight. Erik complains that he used to get along just fine, but now has become so dependent on the glasses that he can't even tell people apart from close up without them, if he doesn't hear their voice.

* GrayAndGrayMorality: Neither Sweden or Russia is morally superior compared to one another, and the people of Finland don't generally give damn about which side's soldiers raid and ravage their lands, or which crown sends in their tax collectors afterwards.

* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: It's actually in the foreground, but so subtle that it's easy to miss, and will render a later scene more difficult to understand: when Erik looks in the swamps water early in the film, he sees it filled with the corpses of all he has killed, as barely visible reflections on the surface. Then he stabs his sword in the water and they are gone, leaving the viewer to wonder if he even saw anything or not.

* NothingIsScarier: Very little is shown, and almost nothing is revealed, and damn if isn't creepy as hell.

* SwampsAreEvil: This one definately is, to the point that in the end neither the representatives of Sweden or Russia are willing to mark themselves as its rightful owners, claiming it to one another in hopes that no-one else will ever enter it again.
* TearsOfBlood: Well, thick, black filth. A large cruxifix statue is at one point shown bleeding the stuff from its face, and all the victims of the UltimateEvil follow the suit.

* UltimateEvil: The thing in the darkness is never shown, but its there. Whether it's a sentient, malevolent creature, or simply an undefinable force is something left at the viewers' imagination.