Film Review – Victorian Psycho

Virginia Feito adapts her own 2025 novel in “Victorian Psycho,” which focuses directly on acts of madness with equal parts horror and delight. It’s a tonal tightrope walk for the screenwriter, who has to pound her original work into cinematic submission, dealing with a story that dips into stretches of insanity, giving viewers exposure to a level of unreality as the tale hopes to crack open the main character’s mind and run its fingers through the messiness. Director Zachary Wigon (2022’s “Sanctuary”) arrives with an interest in generating an appropriately active visual experience for the picture, providing a full sense of disorientation and violence to keep the effort interestingly rough. “Victorian Psycho” does run into the occasional dramatic roadblock, but it mostly remains an engrossing and periodically unsettling study of a mental breakdown that finds ways to surprise its audience. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com