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\"\"Longlegs<\/strong> (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 101 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violence, disturbing images, some language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Osgood Perkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Osgood Perkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Zilgi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Andres Arochi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 12, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Kiernan Shipka, Dakota Daulby, Jason Day, Lisa Chandler, Ava Kelders, Carmel Amit, Peter James Bryant, Lauren Acala, Maila Hosie. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0My review of the new horror-thriller Longlegs<\/strong> is going to be light on plot description. I wouldn\u2019t dream of giving any of it away. It\u2019s best if you go in knowing as little as possible. I will tell you this; it\u2019s likely to get under your skin like no other film in a long time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Longlegs<\/strong> is, for lack of a better term, totally f***ed up. Written and directed by Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat\u2019s Daughter), it\u2019s a serial killer thriller in the vein of The Silence of the Lambs and Seven. It deals with a female rookie FBI agent hunting down a Satan-worshipping serial killer. Special Agent Lee Harker (Monroe, It Follows) is assigned the case by her supervisor Agent Carter (Underwood, Set It Off) after it\u2019s revealed she has psychic abilities. The killer (Cage, Face\/Off), who specializes in whole families, goes by the moniker Longlegs. He\u2019s been at it for about 30 years. He never leaves behind a single shred of physical evidence other than letters written in some sort of code the feds haven\u2019t been able to decipher. That\u2019s about to change now that Harker is on the case.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Cage doesn\u2019t have a lot of screen time in Longlegs<\/strong> (around ten minutes maybe), but he makes the most of it by turning in a gonzo performance as the elusive Satanic psycho. He goes double Nicolas Cage for this one. Looking and sounding like an albino Tiny Tim (the performer not the Dickens character), it is a wonder that the law didn\u2019t catch up with this freak years ago.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0As I\u2019ve already indicated, Longlegs<\/strong> left me feeling unsettled which is understating the matter. I\u2019ve seen many serial killer movies over the years, but very few have rattled me like this. It doesn\u2019t play like a standard-issue thriller. It\u2019s more like a fever dream. Therein lies an error on the part of Perkins. He keeps the nightmare vibe going for a good while then kind of blows it with a detailed expository dump. Nightmares aren\u2019t supposed to make sense. They\u2019re supposed to leave us feeling discombobulated. That\u2019s why they freak us out. He overexplains. I realize it\u2019s a small detail, but Longlegs<\/strong> would have been that much better had he left the audience with a few unanswered questions. He should have fully committed to the film\u2019s weird factor.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Everything else in Longlegs<\/strong> is pretty spot-on. Monroe gives her best performance since 2014\u2019s It Follows (I still haven\u2019t seen God Is a Bullet) as Harker. She\u2019s a woman with issues. She was raised by a single mother (Witt, Urban Legend) who constantly asks her daughter if she still says her prayers. Yes, Mom is a religious type. She actually resembles a middle-aged version of Carrie White (as played by Sissy Spacek in the original). They\u2019re not particularly close. Looking at how they interact, it\u2019s more like they\u2019re just going through the mother-daughter motions. I would have to say this plays a big part in Harker\u2019s psychological profile.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0Perkins might have fumbled in one area, but he more than makes up for it in others. The way he frames his shots augments the feeling of uneasiness as Harker tries to find Longlegs before he strikes again. There are scenes where the feelings of dread and foreboding are increased by the fact that nothing\u2019s happening. I love how he frames flashback scenes like they\u2019re old home movies. He also nails the look of the film\u2019s time period (circa 1996). He never actually establishes a year, but you know it\u2019s the 90s because of the picture of President Clinton in Carter\u2019s office.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u00a0I\u2019m going to keep it short with this review. I don\u2019t want to drop any spoilers. That would ruin it. I\u2019ll leave it at this. If you like a good, weird, disturbing killer thriller, Longlegs<\/strong> is definitely the movie for you. It\u2019s so effective, you might not even sleep that night. It is freaky as f***!<\/p>\r\n

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Longlegs (2024)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Neon\/Horror-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 101 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated R (bloody violence, disturbing images, some language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Osgood Perkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Osgood Perkins\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Zilgi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Andres Arochi\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: July 12, 2024 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Kiernan Shipka, Dakota Daulby, Jason Day, Lisa Chandler, Ava Kelders, Carmel Amit, Peter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-horror","category-scary-gory-wild-i-love-it"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Longlegs-PIC.jpg?fit=780%2C438&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}