2024 has been a good year for horror movies, with cinema-goers flocking to both art house provocations (“The Substance”) and franchise reboots (“The First Omen”).
But one film in particular stands out — for reasons that should disturb us.
The scary thing about Longlegs isn’t so much his affectation or his methods but the sense that he’s backed by a supernatural force that remains hidden to us.
Osgood Perkins’ “Longlegs” is one of the year’s notable success stories, grossing $125 million on less than a $10 million budget. What it lacked in marketing muscle it made up for in massive word-of-mouth excitement — much of it focused on a nearly unrecognizable Nicolas Cage’s unhinged performance as the titular agent of evil.
‘Se7en’ meets ‘Silence’
While “Longlegs” is extraordinarily effective, it isn’t quite as original as its initial buzz suggested. It is set in the ’90s, and much has been said of its obvious borrowings from two movies of that era. It gets its relentlessly gray, dread-soaked atmosphere from “Se7en” and its tense game of cat-and-mouse between a rookie female FBI agent and an enigmatic serial killer from “Silence of the Lambs.” […]
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