Veronica’s Room mucks with your head and turns it inside out. It makes you think about the nature of reality. It disturbs, rattles, and puzzles. It makes you think about false memories and simulations. It’s a deep psychological horror.
In a Boston café in 1973, a young woman called “The Girl” aka Susan (Becca Korn) and her date, “Young Man” (Christopher S. Reed), encounter an elderly Irish couple, “The Man” (Vince Terlep) and “The Woman” (Hillary Mazur). The older couple, the Mackeys, look after Cissie, an elderly woman with dementia whose sister Veronica passed away from tuberculosis in 1935. The Mackeys were housekeepers for Veronica’s parents, the Brabissants.
The Girl and Young Man are shown the room of the titular Veronica at the Brabissant mansion by the elderly couple. They inform the young couple that Cissie doesn’t remember Veronica is deceased; she believes it is still 1935. The Mackeys persuade Susan to pass for Veronica so Cissie would feel better.
That’s the surface of late novelist Ira Levin’s (Deathtrap, Rosemary’s Baby, The Stepford Wives) story in which twisted and evil things happen. I will leave you, my dear reader, to see how far this show descends into madness. The complex onion layers of this story are so intricate that you will be left bewildered, baffled, and mystified…