I found February affecting on an emotional level as well, and will be evangelizing for it until it makes it out of the festival circuit and into theaters.

| Original Score: A- | Dec 5, 2020

The characters are too underdeveloped to leave an impression.

| Oct 26, 2017

There are creepy moments throughout The Blackcoat's Daughter that stick with you, truly adding to the stylistic, haunted-house atmosphere of this whole narrative.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 14, 2017

None of it makes one lick of sense and it quickly becomes clear that Mr. Perkins couldn't care less.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Apr 5, 2017

It's an atmospheric slow-burn that's heavy on moody insinuation and light on overt gotcha scares.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 31, 2017

"The Blackcoat's Daughter" is a self-contained tale of evil that knows exactly what it's doing.

| Original Score: B | Mar 31, 2017

Yes, it's a horror movie (the murder scenes suggest that the director has watched "Psycho" more than once), but even its most brutal acts pulse with inchoate sadness.

| Mar 30, 2017

The film feels determinedly old-fashioned, awash in a hypnotic ambience that's only occasionally punctured by violence. Like his father, Perkins makes his jolts count.

| Mar 30, 2017

"The Blackcoat's Daughter" connects the pieces and ends strongly, though Perkins smartly spends more creative energy on crafting creepy situations than on pointing toward the payoff.

| Mar 30, 2017

Although very little happens in the way of traditional horror-movie jump-scares, "Blackcoat" builds and builds toward a profoundly disquieting sense that something really bad is coming.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 30, 2017

[Perkins] shows a lot of patience for a first-time director. Let's hope the audience stays with him throughout.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 30, 2017

Few horror debuts unnerve and fascinate as much as this one.

| Mar 30, 2017

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.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 30, 2017

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

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 29, 2017

Oz Perkins exhibits a committed understanding of the cinematic value of silence and of vastly underpopulated compositions.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 28, 2017

Evoking some unholy cross between the satanic classic Rosemary's Baby and Lucile Hadzihalilovic's uncannily eerie Innocence, with an inky dash of Lost Highway, [Osgood Perkins' film] represents a remarkable debut.

| Jul 12, 2016

February worked my nerves. I found myself actually squirming a bit in my seat, downright uncomfortable by the rising dread that Perkins creates.

| Sep 19, 2015

Osgood Perkins impresses - and scares - with his chilly debut feature about young women and dark forces.

| Sep 15, 2015

Setting a bunch of people loose on the screen and telling them to mope until something supernatural emerges, then calling it a tone poem about loss, is no way to keep an audience entertained.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 14, 2015