Victorian Psycho review

Victorian Psycho is pretty much exactly what the title suggests. A young woman is hired as a governess by a wealthy Victorian family, which doesn’t realize that she’s a psychopath who enjoys killing people. I guess they were thinking American Psycho, but with a female protagonist in Victorian England. it's a complete miss, and unfortunately, I found the whole thing rather boring rather than simply messy and interesting.

There isn’t much more to the premise than what I’ve described. The protagonist goes about her business, occasionally behaving in a somewhat cutesy manner, while indulging her appetite for violence and murder. There’s some mild humor, but the film never really embraces the kind of dark comedy that makes something like Dexter entertaining.

I’m not particularly drawn to movies about psychopathic killers in the first place, but I can appreciate them when they offer something interesting beyond the violence itself. This one didn’t do that for me.

The cinematography is good, and I enjoyed the Victorian settings and production design. The acting is serviceable. But none of that made the film particularly compelling, and I found myself nodding off throughout.

I can’t really recommend it. There are better ways to spend your time.