The Blackcoat’s Daughter Dvd

The Blackcoat’s Daughter (also known as February) is a 2015 Canadian-American psychological horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The film stars Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, Lauren Holly, and James Remar. Over their winter break, two Catholic schoolgirls get left behind at their boarding school at which the nuns are rumored to be satanists.

The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival before it was released through video-on-demand on February 16, 2017, by DirecTV Cinema, and was released theatrically in the United States on March 31, 2017, by A24. The film received positive reviews, with particular praise for the cast’s performance.

Plot

The plot is split into three “timelines”. The first two, “Rose” and “Joan”, intercut between each other throughout the bulk of the film, before a third timeline, “Kat”, is introduced and comprises the film’s climax.

Rose

In February, students at the prestigious Catholic Bramford Academy, a boarding school in upstate New York, are preparing to be picked up by their parents for a week-long break. Katherine “Kat” (Kiernan Shipka), a freshman, and Rose (Lucy Boynton), a senior student, are left behind when neither of their parents arrive. Rose suspects she may be pregnant so she deliberately lied to her parents about the vacation dates to bide time. Kat, meanwhile, has a premonitory dream of her parents dying in a car crash, and is unable to get ahold of them for an explanation of their tardiness. The two girls are left alone together in the academy overnight, and the nuns task Rose with looking after Kat. Rose, however, departs with her boyfriend to inform him of the possible pregnancy. During this time, while Kat is left entirely alone in the building, the phone rings and she responds. Hours later, Rose returns and finds Kat in the boiler room, repeatedly prostrating herself before the boiler. Rose brings Kat back to her dorm and presses for an explanation of her strange behavior, but Kat speaks cryptically and claims her parents are dead, offering no further explanation and disturbing Rose. After Rose leaves, Kat’s body starts convulsing and contorting in her bed.

The next morning, Rose and an increasingly sickly-looking Kat join the nuns for breakfast, where Kat behaves erratically, vomits, and curses at the nuns. After receiving an alarming phone call, the nuns order Rose to shovel the driveway for the abrupt return of the headmaster Gordon. After shoveling, Rose finds the door to the nuns’ cabin locked, with no response from within, and returns to the dorm building. Later, Gordon arrives with a policeman; as they enter the nun’s cabin, a bloodstain is seen on the wall, and the men react with shock to something offscreen.

Joan

A young woman going by the name of Joan (Emma Roberts) arrives at a bus stop after escaping a mental institution. A friendly older man named Bill (James Remar) offers Joan a ride with him and his wife Linda (Lauren Holly) to Bramford, which is near the town where she claims to be headed. As they stop at a motel, Joan showers, revealing a scar on her shoulder, and a flashback shows her being shot by a policeman. Bill tells Joan over dinner at a nearby restaurant that he picked her up because she reminded him of his deceased daughter, revealed in a photograph to be Rose – the next day will be the ninth anniversary of Rose’s death, on which her parents visit Bramford every year. Joan recognizes Rose and retreats to the restaurant bathroom, where she suppresses a fit of laughter. Another flashback reveals Joan is a fake name; the real Joan was a woman whom she killed to steal her I.D. Bill, Linda and Joan depart for Bramford.

Kat

During the days leading up to winter break, Kat is shown to be in contact with an entity depicted alternately as a looming, horned shadow and a deep, gravelly voice on the phone outside her dormitory. This entity informs her of her parents’ impending death, and instructs her to kill everyone. After breakfast, the nuns receive a phone call informing them that Kat’s parents have died. After Rose is dismissed to shovel the driveway, Kat murders both nuns. She pursues the oblivious Rose into the academy; shortly after Rose has her period, confirming she is not pregnant, Kat stabs her to death and beheads her. Gordon and the policeman search the building and find Kat prostrating herself in front of the boiler again, with the decapitated heads of her three victims lined up next to her. Brandishing the knife, Kat exclaims “Hail Satan!” before the policeman shoots her in the shoulder, revealing that “Joan” is Kat. Kat is detained in a mental hospital, where a priest arrives and performs an exorcism to banish her demon. The exorcism is seemingly successful, but Kat begs the horned figure not to leave her before it vanishes.

“Joan”, the Kat of nine years later, murders Bill and Linda when they pull over in Bramford. She beheads their corpses, coats her face with their blood like makeup, and brings the heads to the boiler room of the academy, seemingly in an effort to summon the demon she lost years ago. However, she finds the boiler cold and unused. Now completely alone, Kat leaves the academy and breaks down crying in the middle of the road.

Cast

Emma Roberts as Joan, an asylum escapee traveling with Bill and Linda.
Kiernan Shipka as Katherine, an awkward and creepy freshman who is being haunted by a dark spirit while she is at school with Rose.
Lucy Boynton as Rose, a daring young woman in her senior year of high school who fears she might be pregnant. She is joined by Kat during the winter break while they are stuck at school.
Lauren Holly as Linda, Rose’s mother and Bill’s wife who dislikes Joan.
James Remar as Bill, Rose’s father, a kind man who is married to Linda and is showing kindness to Joan through driving her to her destination.
Greg Ellwand as Father Brian, the head of the boarding school.
Elena Krausz as Ms. Prescott, a teacher at the boarding school.
Heather Tod Mitchell as Ms. Drake, a teacher at the boarding school.
Peter James Haworth as Mr. Gordon, a teacher at the boarding school.
Peter Gray as Rick, Rose’s boyfriend.
Emma Holzer as Lizzy, Rose’s friend who finds out first that Rose might be pregnant.