Yorkshire, 1858. Winifred Notty (Maika Monroe) arrives at Ensor House to take up the respectable position of governess to a wealthy family’s children. She knows the rules: impeccable manners, unquestioning obedience, a place for everyone beneath the roof. What her employers don’t know is that their new addition has a somewhat less conventional approach to discipline — and a taste for violence that quickly threatens the household’s carefully polished order.

With an eye for gothic excess and a mischievous streak, Zachary Wigon turns the familiar world of the Victorian country house into a gleefully unruly nightmare. Adapted by novelist Virginia Feito from her own book, Victorian Psycho finds a sharp, unsettling comedy in the distance between social propriety and the brutality it can conceal. Monroe is wonderfully difficult to pin down as Winifred, at once elegant, alarming and impossible to ignore. Behind the bloodshed and black humour lies a deliciously pointed question: who, exactly, gets to decide what counts as civilized behaviour?

Film information

Year: 2026
Country: United Kingdom, Ireland
Runtime: 102 minutes
Language: English

Cast & Crew

Director: Zachary Wigon
Screenplay: Virginia Feito, adapted from her novel
Producer: Dan Kagan, Sébastien Raybaud, Liz Siegal, Nick Shumaker, Zachary Wigon
Executive Producer: Nick Shumaker, Bard Dorros, Alex Ashworth, Pieter Engels, Eliza Heslop
Cast: Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Ruth Wilson
Cinematography: Nico Aguilar
Editing: Dustin Chow, Lance Edmands
Production Designer: Jeremy Reed
Costume Designer: Allison Byrne
Sound: Dan Kenyon
Original Score: Ariel Marx
Production Company: Anton, Traffic., Anonymous Content