Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton play students stranded at boarding school over winter break.

An unsettling horror tale that establishes a consistent tone of looming dread

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Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka and Lucy Boynton star as young women connected to supernatural goings on at a girls' boarding school in writer-director Osgood P...

It's not the most original premise for a horror movie, but Osgood Perkins' debut is filled with atmospheric dread.

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In a very short window, writer-director Osgood Perkins has established himself as an outstanding horror filmmaker.

This impressive debut from director Osgood Perkins, about schoolgirls left at a Catholic school over winter break, "feels like a throat-clearing exercise for...

Three narratives converge in a gorgeously filmed, deeply unsettling horror film about girls stranded at their boarding school during midterm break.

Three narratives converge in a gorgeously filmed, deeply unsettling horror film about girls stranded at their boarding school during midterm break.

None of ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter’ makes one lick of sense and it quickly becomes clear that Oz Perkins couldn’t care less.

The best thing to be said about The Blackcoat’s Daughteris that it’s unconventional. The worst thing is that, for a horror film, it’sneither scary nor ...

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In spite of some compelling performances and a consistent mood, the film fails to ground any of these aesthetic flourishes in story or emotion.

A remote snowy, Northeastern Catholic boarding school, schoolgirls forgotten by their parents over spring break and a sinister presence are the promising ing...

Osgood Perkins’ debut feature, The Blackcoat’s Daughter - originally known as February at its premiere at TIFF last year - is a stylish exercise in dread...

An atmospheric and suspenseful indie with a subtle but unmistakable retrograde feel.

The Blackcoat's Daughter aims for lofty satanic thrills, but gets lost in visuals that oversell a barbed but tangled nightmare.