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'Victorian Psycho' Officially Reveals the Most Shocking Popcorn Bucket Ever Made

Nairavoice · Nov 3, 2026 · 5 min read

Hannah covers horror, sci-fi, and games at Collider, where she writes news and features, reviews new releases, and interviews the people who make them. She’s helping build out Collider‘s gaming coverage, with Pokémon as one of her specialties. If she isn’t writing about a monster, she’s probably watching one on a tape from her VHS collection.

After the Dune: Part Two sandworm bucket became everybody’s favorite inappropriate conversation starter, it was only a matter of time before another movie made us question what we were willing to stick our hands into for popcorn. Collectible concessions have become a competition, and horror fans are an easy audience for anything disgusting enough to make the person sitting next to them uncomfortable. Speaking as one of those people, it takes quite a bit to make me reconsider a snack.

Victorian Psycho has apparently taken that as a challenge. Maika Monroe’s new movie is heading to theaters on Friday the 13th, a perfectly lovely date to watch a governess make an English household regret hiring her. Its promotional campaign would also like to ruin the refreshments.

The movie’s newly revealed popcorn bucket is a baby with an open, bloodied torso that you eat out of. Dressed in cream-colored lace and a bonnet, the little nightmare comes nestled in an ornate wooden-style cradle. The promotional photos include a helpful demonstration of someone holding it like an actual infant while eating handfuls of popcorn from its abdomen. Check out the popcorn bucket below!

Four franchises, four completely different ways of getting underneath
your skin. This is the one built out of your particular fear, why it works so well on you, and what
it would leave behind.

Your nightmare does not wait outside the door. It waits for you
to close your eyes, which you are going to have to do eventually, because nobody has ever
won that particular argument.

Freddy is horror’s cruellest idea: a threat that lives in the one place you cannot
guard, cannot lock, and cannot avoid forever.
You are the one who is fine during the film and wide awake at two in the morning. Your
own head is where this does its damage.
These films understood exhaustion as a horror engine. The kids on Elm Street do not lose
because they are weak. They lose because they are tired.
You can lock every door in the house. You still have to sleep.

Your nightmare is not really the doll. It is the face of the
person you tell, and the way they decide, very kindly, that you have imagined all of it.

Chucky works precisely because he is absurd. That is the trap: the more accurately you
describe him, the less anybody is going to believe you.
You are the one shouting at the screen because the characters are not listening. You
know that feeling from real life too.
The franchise is at its best when the adults in the room are the real obstacle, and you
have met those adults.
By the time somebody finally believes you, you will have handled most of it on your own.

Your nightmare has your number, knows your name, and has almost
certainly been inside your house before. The worst part is that you already know them.

Scream is the only one of these where the killer takes the mask off and turns out to be
somebody who was at the party.
You are the person who calls the twist out loud before it lands. You watch people the
same way you watch films.
The franchise made the rules of horror part of the plot, which means the survivors are
the ones paying attention. You would be paying attention.
Everybody is a suspect, including the person who just offered to walk you home.

Your nightmare is not really about you. It is about the people
asleep down the hall, and the feeling that whatever is here is not interested in leaving.

The Conjuring films are domestic horror. The house, the family, the perfectly ordinary
room that quietly stops feeling ordinary.
Your instinct is to get everybody into one room. Your fear is protective rather than
personal, which is rarer than it sounds.
This is the one franchise where belief is the weapon. The people who come through it are
the ones who are not alone and refuse to be.
Whatever is here did not come for you. It came for the household, and you are the one
standing in the hallway.

What Is ‘Victorian Psycho’ About?

Image via Bleecker Street

Directed by Zachary Wigon, Victorian Psycho stars Monroe as Winifred Notty, a governess who arrives at Ensor House in 1858. She’s supposed to educate the children and teach them manners while concealing her psychopathic tendencies, which feels like something the family should have caught during the interview. Staff members begin disappearing, and suspicions about the new hire follow. Thomasin McKenzie and Jason Isaacs also star.

After being stalked through It Follows, Watcher, and Longlegs, Monroe getting to be the problem is an appealing change of pace. Winifred’s name appears on the bucket’s promotional artwork, which attributes your new cinematic companion to her “demonic impulses.” Without having seen the movie, it’s probably safe to bet that leaving children in her care is a bad idea. The supplied announcement doesn’t include a price, purchase link, or participating theater chains, so we’re still waiting to learn how fans can acquire their own popcorn baby. The artwork does invite people to procure one, though, which gives collectors something deeply unpleasant to look forward to.

Personally, I need to know what happens after the movie. Do you wash it in the sink? Put it in a cabinet? Bring it out when guests ask if you have a serving bowl? Buying this bucket means making several more decisions about the baby in your home, and none of them are going to sound good out loud.

Victorian Psycho opens in theaters Friday, November 13.