Murdered Babies, Axes Buried in Heads and a Monstrous Maika Monroe: ‘Victorian Psycho’ Shocks Cannes Into 5-Minute Ovation

By Alex Ritman

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Over the last week, Cannes served up a fair share of European arthouse and even a splash of insane live-action CGI monster action (that’ll be “Hope”). On Thursday, it was the turn of bloody horror to have its moment at the festival.

“Victorian Psycho,” Zachary Wigon’s gothic thriller starring Maika Monroe as a possessed woman whose arrival at a 19th-century estate sparks a crescendo of chaos — including bloody axe attacks, murdered infants and much, much more gore — woke up a sleepy Cannes on Thursday afternoon. The darkly comic Gothic thriller bowed in Un Certain Regard and earned a 5-minute standing ovation, with much of the cheers aimed at Monroe (aptly dressed in a blood red dress).

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