THE NAKED WITCH

A university student is researching his thesis on the "thoroughly German" villages of modern-day central Texas. He's on his way to Luckenbach - where people speak German more often than English - when his car runs out of gas. He walks into town and meets Kirska Schöennig, who takes him to the hotel run by her grandfather, Hans. While none of the older residents of the town will talk to the student about the "Luckenbach Witch," Kirska loans him a book about her.

Learning from the book that the witch is buried near the inn, the student goes to the cemetery and opens her shallow grave by hand. He removes from her mummified remains the spike that was driven through her. After he returns in haste to the inn, she rises naked from her grave, quite intact and intent on taking revenge on the Schöennigs, the descendants of her lover, the married man who denounced her as a witch a century earlier.

The witch steals the stake and goes to Kirska's bedroom, where she steals Kirska's nightgown before setting out in search of the other two remaining Schöennigs, Hans and Franz. She quickly dispatches them both. The student finds the witch bathing nude in a creek and falls under her spell. But after spending the night with her, he snaps out of it and decides that it is his responsibility to stop her.

As the witch magically summons Kirska to the graveyard, the student rushes in and struggles with the witch. She falls upon the stake, dead again.

The student snaps out of the witch's spell and confronts her in the graveyard, where she falls upon the stake and dies once again.

The film resolves its supernatural threat by returning the witch to her grave through poetic justice—her own weapon of resurrection becomes the instrument of her defeat. The student’s final act not only ends her rampage but also underscores the dangers of meddling with forces better left undisturbed. The ending wraps up the folkloric revenge cycle and restores order to the insular Texas town.