The Fated Hour

The Fated Hour is a 19th-century period piece set in Austria based on Friedrich Laun’s short story “The Relationship with the Spirit World,” famously cited as a key influence on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Blending psychological unease with spectral ambiguity, Laun’s work helped shape the evolution of Gothic fiction from folkloric ghost story into modern psychological horror.

Directed by Peter Hengl, Carl Daft, David Gregory