Victorian Psycho: Book vs. Movie
Zachary Wigon's 2026 film Victorian Psycho adapts Virginia Feito's book. Maika Monroe plays Winifred Notty, a governess whose arrival disturbs the apparent order of an English country house.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Virginia Feito
- Year
- 2025
- Pages
- 208Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 4 hr 51 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Anna Burnett
Winifred Notty takes a position as governess at Ensor House, where the Pounds family expects her to teach its children manners and suitable accomplishments. Privately, she studies the household with disgust and struggles to contain violent impulses rooted in her past. As Christmas approaches, her employers' confidence in the order of their home leaves little room for what she is planning.
- Director
- Zachary Wigon
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 1 hr 42 min
- Cast
- Maika Monroe, Thomasin McKenzie, Jason Isaacs, Ruth Wilson
- Genre
- thriller film
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
The owners of Ensor House hire Winifred Notty to educate their children and prepare them for respectable society. Their new governess brings a private appetite for violence into a household confident of its own rules and privileges. When members of staff begin disappearing, the family has to consider whether the woman entrusted with its children is responsible.
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