Victorian Psycho

The dark side of the Victorian era in a provocative thriller from the programme of the latest Cannes Film Festival.

2026, Zachary Wigon

United Kingdom–Ireland
102 minutes, English with Russian subtitles

Starring: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Ruth Wilson

Winifred takes a place of a governess in the home of the aristocratic Pounds family. But only for cover: in fact, the young woman is drawn to the mansion by the suspicion that Mr Pounds is her father, who once abandoned his family and condemned his daughter to a tough childhood with a mad mother and a cruel stepfather.

Still from Victorian Psycho, 2026

For all its demented genre excess, Victorian Psycho plays like a welcome, cathartic primal scream.

— Nikki Baughan, Screen Daily

The heroine’s mental state unravels before our eyes, and the film emphasises this through a whole range of grotesque, and at times shocking, sound and visual techniques.