Maika Monroe is eerily bloodthirsty in a newly released teaser trailer for her latest horror, Victorian Psycho.
The film — from the producers of Longlegs, the feature that solidified Monroe’s status as a Scream Queen — gets its world premiere on Thursday in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, after The Hollywood Reporter unveiled an exclusive first look as the fest got underway earlier this month.
Zachary Wigon’s period movie also stars Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Amy De Bhrun, Ruth Wilson, Jacobi Jupe and Evie Templeton, and will release in the fall. It adapts Virginia Feito’s 2025 novel of the same name.
The teaser shows Monroe playing an eccentric young governess in 1858, who arrives at the remote gothic manor, Ensor House. As she assimilates, staff begin to inexplicably disappear, and the owners wonder if something is amiss about (or possessing) the young woman.
In 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 done.”
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 found 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 told THR about Winifred.
Watch the teaser for Victorian Psycho below.
