News Victorian Psycho Maika Monroe Has Big Questions About Evil in Victorian Psycho Trailer A Merchant Ivory film this is not By Molly Templeton | Published on May 21, 2026 Screenshot: Bleecker Street Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Bleecker Street Is it weird to say that the trailer for a movie about a murderous governess is delightful? It’s true, though: the trailer for Victorian Psycho is peculiarly charming. It’s the song choice that does it: those guitars come in (courtesy of the Die Spitz song “Throw Yourself to the Sword”) and the tone is set. It is not an uptight tone, or a bleakly gory tone, or a gloom-and-doom tone. It’s anachronistic and weird and, yeah, delightful. More delightful than all the severed body parts might suggest. Victorian Psycho is based on the novel by Virginia Feito, which follows a governess (played by scream queen Maika Monroe) who is “hiding her psychopathic tendencies” at her new—and conveniently remote—place of employ. The trailer suggests she will not hide said tendencies for all that long, as there’s quite a bit of screaming, blood, and two children who are really rather chill about being told to “kill them all.” The film premiered last night at Cannes to a five-minute standing ovation. That’s nowhere near the record set by Pan’s Labyrinth—22 minutes—but it is quite respectable, and tied with Moulin Rouge and Top Gun: Maverick. Along with Monroe, Victorian Psycho stars Thomasin McKenzie, Ruth Wilson, and Jason Isaacs. It’s really quite a lineup. The film is directed by Zachary Wigon (Sanctuary), with a screenplay by novelist Feito. It’s in theaters this fall.[end-mark] The post Maika Monroe Has Big Questions About Evil in <i>Victorian Psycho</i> Trailer appeared first on Reactor.