Maika Monroe is eerily bloodthirsty in a newly launched teaser trailer for her newest horror, Victorian Psycho.
The movie — from the producers of Longlegs, the function that solidified Monroe’s standing as a Scream Queen — will get its world premiere on Thursday in Cannes’ Un Sure Regard, after The Hollywood Reporter unveiled an exclusive first look because the fest bought underway earlier this month.
Zachary Wigon’s interval film additionally stars Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Amy De Bhrun, Ruth Wilson, Jacobi Jupe and Evie Templeton, and can launch within the fall by means of Bleecker Avenue (U.S.) and True Brit (U.Ok.). It adapts Virginia Feito’s 2025 novel of the identical title.
The teaser reveals Monroe enjoying an eccentric younger governess in 1858, who arrives on the distant gothic manor, Ensor Home. As she assimilates, workers start to inexplicably disappear, and the homeowners marvel if one thing is amiss about (or possessing) the younger girl.
Within the first-look interview, Monroe unpacked her serial killer governess, Winifred, with THR‘s David Canfield: “It terrified me. I knew that it would be the hardest role that I have ever done — and so incredibly different from anything I’ve ever achieved.”
She continued: “There’s always a little part of me in roles that I do, something that I can ground it with or connect it with within my own personal life — but this role was really a departure from that. It was working from the ground up, creating this character where I couldn’t rely on my own self. It really, in the most magical way, took a toll on me. I felt it every day.”
Director Wigon added that he discovered it fascinating to see an outsider who “desperately wants to be an insider, and it’s simply impossible.”
“It’s a very, very deep paradox. She will never belong — and she will never stop wanting to belong,” he informed THR about Winifred.
Watch the teaser for Victorian Psycho under.
