Victorian Psycho review – Maika Monroe has a blast in unsteady horror romp
As Winifred Notty (Maika Monroe) fills the frame in Victorian Psycho, heading to a new job as governess for a rich family, it’s easy to be on her side.
Key points
- Even as her murderous impulses start to rear their head, they’re made somewhat understandable, although Winifred isn’t just a woman reacting to the various injustices of the time – she’s one responding to a demon within her, a darkness she has chosen to embrace rather than resist.
- Darkness is her friend, a protection against harm, and a way to possess some sort of control in a world that has denied her any of it.
The It Follows and Longlegs star tears into the role of a murderous governess in this hit-and-miss adaptation of Virginia Feito’s gory novel It’s not that hard to figure out why a lower-class woman toiling away in Victorian England would be so easily driven to violently murder everyone around her.
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