Although it premiered later, The Blackcoat's Daughter (also known as February) is Oz Perkins' debut feature film, and even then, the marks that would distinguish his later filmography could already be seen: young women as protagonists of stories as minimalist as their production design, sound, and camerawork, which converge to create atmospheres that disturb by their stillness. Here, the plot follows three young women (Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, and Emma Roberts), whose paths cross in a story of loneliness and violence.
Osgood Perkins' second film (although the first to be released) is even more minimalist, though with contemporary gothic overtones. I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House follows a private nurse (Ruth Wilson) who must stay alone in the remote house of a famous writer (Paula Prentiss) suffering from dementia. However, she soon begins to suspect that the house is haunted and that her fate echoes that of a sister of the writer who died decades earlier.
Oz Perkins' third film as a director was not written by him, as the others were, but by Rob Hayes (Monday). However, Perkins' touch is evident in this interpretation of the classic Brothers Grimm tale. In Gretel & Hansel, she (played by Sophia Lillis from It) is the older sister and must care for her brother while facing the witch in a story about female repression and abandonment.
