The home rights to Victorian Psycho, a brand new gothic horror film starring Margaret Qualley and Thomasin McKenzie, have been acquired by A24.
Victorian Psycho is being directed by Zachary Wigon, who beforehand labored with Qualley on 2022’s Sanctuary. The movie’s script is written by Virginia Feito, who additionally wrote the forthcoming novel of the identical title that the film relies on. Feito’s ebook shall be launched in February 2025.
Per Deadline, the home distribution rights to the Victorian Psycho have been bought by A24. A launch date has not but been set, although manufacturing is anticipated to start in March 2025.
What else do we all know in regards to the Victorian Psycho film?
“Set in Victorian England, the movie sees an eccentric governess arrive at a distant gothic manor, the place unusual happenings stir suspicion that she’s not what she appears,” Deadline’s synopsis of the plot reads.
An outline of the ebook additional reads, “Winifred Notty arrives at Ensor Home ready to play the right governess―she’ll dutifully tutor her prices, Drusilla and Andrew, inform them bedtime tales, and solely joke about consuming youngsters. However lengthy, listless days spent inside the property’s dreary confines include an intimate data of the perversions and pathetic preoccupations of the Kilos household―Mr. Kilos can’t preserve his eyes off Winifred’s chest, and Mrs. Kilos takes a sickly pleasure in punishing Winifred for her husband’s wandering gaze. Compounded along with her disdain for the entitled Kilos youngsters, Winifred finds herself struggling at each flip to stifle the violent compulsions of her previous. French tutoring and needlework are one technique to go the time, as is admiring the ugly portraits within the gallery…and creeping throughout the moonlit lawns…Endurance. Winifred will need to have persistence, for Christmas is coming, and she or he has very particular presents deliberate for the expensive souls of Ensor Home.”
In 2024, Qualley starred in Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls, Yorgos Lanthimos’ Sorts of Kindness, and Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance. McKenzie, in the meantime, is understood for movies akin to 2018’s Go away No Hint, 2019’s Jojo Rabbit, 2021’s Final Evening in Soho, and 2023’s Eileen.
