The Blackcoat's Daughter

2015

Action / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

51
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 52% · 78 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 52% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 31321 31.3K

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Plot summary

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

Director

Osgood Perkins Photo
Osgood Perkins

Top cast

Emma Roberts Photo
Emma Roberts as Joan
Kiernan Shipka Photo
Kiernan Shipka as Kat
Peter James Haworth Photo
Peter James Haworth as Mr. Gordon
Lucy Boynton Photo
Lucy Boynton as Rose
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
825.63 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6
1.53 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 60

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rcmoorejr-543-459992 5 / 10

Too Clever by Half

It's an ambitious movie, and early on the scenes underscore that the scenes will emphasize the unspoken, with long, uncomfortable pauses. Shot mostly at night, and in a nonlinear method, it's very confusing at first, and the ending doesn't provide the payoff you're hoping for. Some reviews here try to fill in the gaps the filmmaker left, and it's unfortunate that that's needed. There's talent on the screen, and it's been wasted. Near the end there's an attempt to explain the murky as Satanism, with the local priest doing an exorcism, which isn't the norm, but it's like so many films that sculpt a dark mystery without a clear path out. A bit dismaying in the end. The British call this Too Clever by Half, ie, failure.
Reviewed by Jeremy_Urquhart 5 / 10

Ehhh...

Longlegs was interesting enough that I feel compelled to work through Osgood Perkins' other four movies. Starting at the start, here's The Blackcoat's Daughter, sometimes called February (at least it was on YouTube). Neither title is very good. Also, the movie as a whole wasn't really my cup of tea either - not very good like its titles, but I also wouldn't go so far as to call it entirely bad.It is, however, entirely too slow in my eyes. There is some occasional dread, and I think the music did quite a bit of the heavy lifting in terms of creating some sense of unease, but I was also so detached from most of it because it felt boring. I've had slower and more offbeat horror movies get to me before, but for whatever reason, it didn't happen here.It's cool that it's going for something out there and I couldn't call it derivative, but I'm also pretty unenthusiastic about the experience of actually watching the thing.
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