The exorcism is seemingly successful, but Kat begs the horned figure not to leave her before it vanishes. This problem is worse than it first might seem as Blackcoat's Daughter doesn't have much more to offer than those poorly hidden cards. Although the film only received a wide release after I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House was shown, The Blackcoat's Daughter was actually filmed first, making it Perkins' debut film. The first thing to understand about Blackcoat’s Daughter is that there are two threads. There's nothing clever on offer either, that might have redeemed this flick. The Blackcoat's Daughter Horror , Thriller Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar The Blackcoat's Daughter 2015 | R | 1h 34m | Supernatural Horror Movies When their parents fail to pick them up for winter break, two students stay on at an all-girls boarding school in … [11] In November 2015, it was announced that the film had sold to various international territories at the AFM, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America, Poland, the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Middle East. [10] The film had its US premiere at the Fantastic Fest on September 24, 2015. Sadly there's little anyone can do, to lift a film that, in my opinion, has so little to say. [13] The film was scheduled to be released DirecTV Cinema on July 14, 2016. In Osgood Perkins’ The Blackcoat’s Daughter, (also referred to as February) a socially awkward, quiet prep school freshman Kat (Kiernan Shipka) is stranded at … This page was last edited on 3 April 2021, at 06:50. However, she finds the boiler cold and unused. Two Catholic schoolgirls Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton) get left behind at their boarding school over winter break as the other girls leave, where it's rumored that the nuns are satanists. 1CD. Peter James Haworth as Mr. Gordon, the headmaster of the boarding school. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. After shoveling, Rose finds the door to the nuns' cabin locked, with no response from within, and returns to the dorm building. When school lets out, the darkness creeps in. "Joan", the Kat of nine years later, murders Bill and Linda when they pull over in Bramford. The Blackcoat's Daughter is a 2015 horror film directed by Oz Perkins, son of Anthony Perkins.The movie follows two storyines, the first centering around a pair of girls, Kat and Rose. From Wings to Parasite, here's a look back at all of the Best Picture Oscar winners in the history of the ceremony. 28/12/2016. The film stars Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, and James Remar. "The Blackcoat's Daughter" Is A Must-See for Art-House Horror Fans By Anna Leitao In the psychological Horror film “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” Osgood Perkins (Oz Perkins) portrays a story about three teenage girls and a Catholic boarding school where sinister events are being perpetuated. By the time the credits rolled I felt stunned and awestruck. [8] Shortly after, A24 Films and DirecTV Cinema acquired US distribution rights to the film. Katherine “Kat” (Kiernan Shipka), a freshman, and Rose (Lucy Boynton), a senior student, are left behind when neither of their parents arrive. Now completely alone, Kat leaves the academy and breaks down crying in the middle of the road. As they stop at a motel, Joan showers, revealing a scar on her shoulder, and a flashback shows her being shot by a policeman. The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a powerful and surprising horror film that marked Osgood Perkins’ directorial debut, but the movie was originally written with a very different title in mind.. Osgood Perkins has recently made waves with his haunting, mature fairytale, Gretel & Hansel, but The Blackcoat’s Daughter makes for an incredibly creative and ambitious first feature film. During this time, while Kat is left entirely alone in the building, the phone rings and she responds. After Rose leaves, Kat's body starts convulsing and contorting in her bed. That said, it also brims with tiny, blink-and-you'll-miss-them details that will repay repeat viewings. [18], On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 73%, based on 70 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10, and the site's consensus of the film reads: "Slow-building and atmospheric, The Blackcoat's Daughter resists girls-in-peril clichés in a supernatural thriller that serves as a strong calling card for debuting writer-director Oz Perkins. View production, box office, & company info. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Greg Ellwand as Father Brian, a priest at the boarding school. This entity informs her of her parents' impending death, and instructs her to kill everyone. Rose brings Kat back to her dorm and presses for an explanation of her strange behavior, but Kat speaks cryptically and claims her parents are dead, offering no further explanation and disturbing Rose. This emphasis on the wind-up can be partially attributed to the unoriginality of said punchline, which, when sprung, only retrospectively deflates the film. Unfortunately for him, Elvis had never written a film score before, and he found the medium confining, with Perkins noting that the restrictions "almost killed him". Meanwhile, a disturbed mental patient Joan (Emma Roberts), an escapee, is picked up by a middleage couple (James Remar and Lauren Holly) who drive her on a determined trip to the same school, where the girls must face the supernatural and demonic possession. Genre: Horror , Thriller Rose, however, departs with her boyfriend to inform him of the possible pregnancy. In addition, even though those to whom Perkins initially showed the script were enthusiastic about it, many of them believed that it would be impossible to make. Joan recognizes Rose and retreats to the restaurant bathroom, where she suppresses a fit of laughter. Two girls must battle a mysterious evil force when they get left behind at their boarding school over winter break. "[21] In 1983, financially struggling college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She pursues the oblivious Rose into the academy; shortly after Rose has her period, confirming she is not pregnant, Kat stabs her to death and beheads her. Directed by Osgood Perkins svg-skull svg-skull svg-skull svg-skull svg-skull 2016 NR English 93min. Every moment, almost every shot, has been carefully calibrated to stand hairs on end. Two Catholic schoolgirls Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton) get left behind at their boarding school over winter break as the other girls leave, where it's rumored that the nuns are satanists. 2017. A fact that's not helped at all by an evil spirit that looks a lot like the shadow of a guy in a rabbit suit with big comical "rabbity" ears. Heather Tod Mitchell as Ms. Drake, a nurse at the boarding school. A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Title: A deeply atmospheric and terrifying new horror film, The Blackcoat’s Daughter centers on Kat (Kiernan Shipka) and Rose (Lucy Boynton), two girls who are left alone at their prep school Bramford over winter break when their parents mysteriously fail to pick them up. Slow-building and atmospheric, The Blackcoat's Daughter resists girls-in-peril clichés in a supernatural thriller that serves as a strong calling card for debuting writer-director Oz Perkins. Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back. [20], Leslie Felperin of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "As with so many of the best mystery-horror films, the optimum way to enjoy a first viewing of this is try to remain as ignorant as possible about what happens. A young woman going by the name of Joan (Emma Roberts) arrives at a bus stop after escaping a mental institution. [16] It was released on February 16, 2017, through DirecTV Cinema, before being released on March 31, 2017, in a limited release and through video on demand by A24. The Blackcoat's Daughter, a tense horror film that snares you in its dream-like web and keeps ahold of you long after the house lights have gone up, is a surreal piece of art that manages to indirectly reference many real stories while also paying homage to the moody horror films that came before it.. [3] Financing the film was particularly difficult, and Perkins attributed this to the "slumping" success of the horror genre at the time, since the film's script was completed in 2012, but filming did not begin until 2015. Four out of ten from me. The Blackcoat's Daughter could be taken as a drama about a boarding school misfit, a subtle warning to parents about the dangers of the dark arts, or … Kiernan Shipka in The Blackcoat's Daughter. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015) The Blackcoats Daughter 2015 1080p - 720p BluRa... Watch online Download Subtitles Searcher. During the days leading up to winter break, Kat is shown to be in contact with an entity depicted alternately as a looming, horned shadow and a deep, gravelly voice on the phone outside her dormitory. 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The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival before it was released through video-on-demand on February 16, 2017, by DirecTV Cinema, and was released theatrically in the United States on March 31, 2017, by A24. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. The acting is sound and at times, even quite good. The camera work and cinematography is refined too. She beheads their corpses, coats her face with their blood like makeup, and brings the heads to the boiler room of the academy, seemingly in an effort to summon the demon she lost years ago. The film received positive reviews, with particular praise for the cast's performance. Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. Kat, meanwhile, has a premonitory dream of her parents dying in a car crash, and is unable to get ahold of them for an explanation of their tardiness. Rated R for brutal bloody violence and brief strong language, "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina": Kiernan Shipka, Indie Horror Month 2021: Heather’s Favorite Independent Horror Movies You Can Stream Right Now, ‘Into The Darkness,’ ‘Silent Forest’ Win Top Honors at Hybrid Goa Film Festival, Best Horror Movies on Netflix in October 2020. The two have no choice but to stay at their Catholic school when neither girl's parents arrive to … [12] The film was retitled from February to The Blackcoat's Daughter. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The Blackcoat's Daughter (also known as February)[2] is a 2015 Canadian-American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The Blackcoat's Daughter was written and directed by Osgood Perkins, son of genre legend Anthony Perkins . Bill, Linda and Joan depart for Bramford. Kat is detained in a mental hospital, where a priest arrives and performs an exorcism to banish her demon. A soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Written by 1229x. Worse still, this film never really goes anywhere terribly interesting or all that frightening. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge. An unseen evil affects two girls staying at a boarding school over winter break. On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. After Rose is dismissed to shovel the driveway, Kat murders both nuns. The Blackcoat's Daughter (2015). A friendly older man named Bill (James Remar) offers Joan a ride with him and his wife Linda (Lauren Holly) to Bramford, which is near the town where she claims to be headed. In their secluded farmhouse, a mother (a former surgeon) teaches her daughter, Francisca, anatomy, and life & death are not to be feared. Exactly who or what was the Blackcoat and who was his( its) daughter. Brandishing the knife, Kat exclaims "Hail Satan!" Joe Leydon of Variety magazine wrote: "In addition to everything else he does right in February, Perkins plays fair: When you replay the movie in your mind after the final fadeout, you realize that every twist was dutifully presaged, and the final reveal was hidden in plain sight all along. A writer and Irish Catholic priest, who was brought in by the U.S. government to perform a sanctioned exorcism on a young soldier at the famed Army base. “I hope you have a fun time in Albany” is Perkins’ favorite line of dialogue he’s written, “in my sweet … The Blackcoat’s Daughter isn’t purposefully misleading, it gives the viewer all of the information and clues needed to understand what is going on without holding the viewers hand. [9] The Canadian distribution rights were then acquired by ABMO Films. The first thread is Kat (Kiernan Shipka), Rose (Lucy Boynton), who are living at the Bramford Catholic school. The Blackcoat's Daughter is a haunting tale that breaths new life into the idea of possession and the loss of innocence. Principal photography for the film began in February 2015 in Kemptville, Ontario, Canada,[6] and the film's soundtrack was scored by Perkins' brother, Elvis Perkins, who is a singer-songwriter. After breakfast, the nuns receive a phone call informing them that Kat's parents have died. InternetGhost. Osgood started his filmmaking career as an actor, appearing in movies like Legally Blonde and Secretary. If you liked any of the … The Blackcoat's Daughter (also known as February) is a 2015 Canadian-American supernatural psychological horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger. Over their winter break, two Catholic schoolgirls get left behind at their boarding school at which the nuns are rumored to be satanists. [3] However after the casting of Kiernan Shipka and Emma Roberts was announced in April 2014,[4] and the casting of Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, and James Remar was announced in February 2015,[5] the film then became a reality. before the policeman shoots her in the shoulder, revealing that "Joan" is Kat. Hours later, Rose returns and finds Kat in the boiler room, repeatedly prostrating herself before the boiler. [17] On Netflix UK, it was released under the title February. The Blackcoat’s Daughter is more concerned with setup than punchline, deriving dread from what might be about to happen. The movie also has an OST written for the movie itself by Elvis Perkins - Incantation ~ Outcantation - The Blackcoat's Daughter OST (2017) Audio. The Blackcoat’s Daughter is a clammy hand on the back of the neck, a chill running down the spine, a shot of ice water straight to the veins. In February, students at the prestigious Catholic Bramford Academy, a boarding school in upstate New York, are preparing to be picked up by their parents for a week-long break. Financial analysis of The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2017) including budget, domestic and international box office gross, DVD and Blu-ray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. The Blackcoat’s Daughter, The Witch, It Follows, The Invitation and The House of the Devil are examples of prototypical vehicles for a new-wave horror that diverges from the assembly line and strays from overpitched archetypes. Read full review One afternoon, a mysterious visitor shatters the ... See full summary ». A mother and daughter must confront a terrifying monster when they break down on a deserted road. [14] But was pushed back to August 25, 2016, before opening in a limited release on September 30. Storyline. 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