"Maybe not for Millie, but definitely for us. The young housekeeper gets her own room in the attic - weird that it closes with a deadbolt from the outside, but no matter - and we're off. Mille gets a smartphone with the family's credit card preloaded and a key for that deadbolt. "What kind of monsters are we?" asks Nina. Indeed."
"Based on Freida McFadden's novel, The Housemaid rides waves of manipulation and then turns the tables on what we think we've just seen, looking at male-female power structures and how privilege can trap people without it. The film is as good looking as the actors, with nifty touches like having the main house spare, well-lit and bright, while the husband's private screening room in the basement is done in a hellish red."
The Housemaid follows a young housekeeper given an attic room locked from the outside and provided with a smartphone loaded with the family's credit card. The housekeeper's behavior shifts between sweet and manipulative, provoking escalating tension and psychotic outbursts. Male-female power structures and class privilege shape the characters' interactions, with gaslighting and hidden agendas driving the plot. Visual design contrasts bright, spare main rooms with a hellish red private screening basement. The film mixes gore, sexual tension, dark humor, and horror conventions while subverting expectations and ending on a triumphant, stylish note set to Taylor Swift's "I Did Something Bad".
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