Diary entries forThe Blackcoat's Daughter
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The Blackcoat's Daughter is one of my more anticipated films from A24, a studio that I have grown to love. It's a horror film, a genre they notoriously have had some fantastic releases with. With this in mind, there were some really big shoes for this film to fill, sadly not living up to the other films that the studio has released. This film was beautifully shot. Many scenes throughout were extremely haunting, creating this cold atmosphere that really set the film apart from many other horror films. More reminiscent of the imagery used in The Witch, this film had the potential to have the amazing aesthetic that many of the great modern horror films have. While the film did have beautiful imagery, the biggest problem that the film had was writing and acting. The writing of the film really did need to have some work done. There were numerous scenes with clunky dialogue, making the film hard to take seriously. This lack of seriousness really shone through the acting, with Emma Roberts potentially giving her worst role in her filmography. She was wooden, which fit her character, but this lack of emotion just didn't suit the film. She seemed as uninterested in the film as I was while watching it. The other actors were decent at best, with no actor really shining, just having some decent acting for poorly written characters. A24 is my favorite film studio at the moment, with many of their releases being at the top of my most anticipated films of the year. There was hope that The Blackcoat's Daugther would be just as good as many of their other releases, but this film truly was a letdown. It was a beautiful looking film, but just didn't have the substance to become a good horror film. This film certainly is the studio's weakest film, but not all studios can release films like Moonlight and The Witch, there's always going to be duds.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
The "twist" and ending were predictable, the acting was not great, and the plot felt messy. This film just did not draw me in. Might have to give it a rewatch someday.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
Very well crafted. It’s bad vibes personified onto film. Very slow, but very atmospheric. A lot of what is being done here works extremely well. Some of it didn’t work as well for me. Some of the stabbing is… INTENSE to say the least. To the point that even I was uncomfortable. But if that’s what you want, this is absolutely the movie for you.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
get your hands off me, cunt kill all the cunts liiiiiiikee kiernan carried
The Blackcoat's Daughter
I get what they were going with the structure, but the whole movie just feels messy; and is kinda dumb but thinks it is smart.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
All the ways I want a Fleur Jaegy story to go. Perhaps what I wish Moshfegh’s Eileen (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3115184225) became somewhere in the middle instead of the end. Shows signs of potentiality that perhaps corrects itself in Longlegs (https://letterboxd.com/film/longlegs/), but this feels too cookie-cutter, still suffers from amateur auteur kinks in long establishing shots that linger for too long. Interesting frames without importance or texture. All flair without the meat. Also who the hell came up with such a shitty title for this?! No wonder this flew under my radar!
The Blackcoat's Daughter
final watch of 2025, and what's a better way to end this shitty year than with my favorite genres: horror & thriller? interesting watch and somewhat of a slow burn. i wish we would have seen more of katherine's childhood to give better context for how she became the way she is. we barely see anything beyond the fact that her parents didn't make it to school to pick her up, and there could have been several reasons for that.. not simply abandonment. having her become "possessed", or mentally ill, in the span of a day or two because of that alone feels like a weird choice. rose telling katherine that the elderly sisters worship the devil, etc., was also kind of odd. nothing was done with that, and it just felt random as hell. i think this would have benefitted from a longer runtime. with that being said, i still enjoyed it, trying to piece everything together is always fun, and i liked the atmosphere it built up. also, lucy boynton was great, too. i think it'd be great as a rewatch with the twist in mind.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
have these Horror Director men considered making a film that isn’t just minimalist compositions with droning scores about The Trauma of Women? the quasi-satanic panic of a girl’s school is misogynistic at its core—what else could girls be spending all their time doing if not plotting to ruin men and worship the devil? thinly written even for 95 minutes. didn’t hate it, it does what it does to good if not great effect at times, i just hate what it does on principle.
