One Thing I Love About Victorian Psycho

I really enjoyed the book Victorian Psycho, so my heart sank when I found out that a movie adaptation was already in the works. So much of what makes the book special is the specificity of Winnifred Notty’s viewpoint. She’s not purely chaotic, and she’s not calculating and manipulative, either. It could have been nothing more than lurid horror or broad satire without the understated and matter-of-fact way she observed and described everything. But there were two points in the movie’s favor: one is that it was being adapted by Virginia Feito, the book’s author. The other was that Maika Monroe had been cast as Winnifred Notty. I’ve only seen two of Monroe’s movies, It Follows and Longlegs, but just those were enough to turn me into a big fan. Not only does she embrace genre movies, she has the presence to command your attention without making choices that are too showy, and aren’t true to the character. Both of those movies require her to play variations on “numb,” and she plays the…

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