Ozgood “son of Anthony” Perkins specialises in creepy, off-putting, genuinely unsettling horror, having given us the likes of The Blackcoat’s Daughter and I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House. This new supernatural serial killer thriller is no exception. In fact, it might be his best yet.
When is Longlegs being released in New Zealand?
Longlegs is now playing in New Zealand cinemas.
What is Longlegs about?
Vibes. Creepy, creepy vibes.
Look, more than that is kind of hard to describe. It’s the ’90s, and FBI agent Lee Harker may be psychic, but she definitely has massive childhood trauma. She’s assigned to a decades-long case of unsolved, possibly Satanic, murder-suicides linked to a mysterious figure called “Longlegs”. Is Longlegs an urban legend, a demon, or something worse? Well, you know the genre…
There’s a touch of The Silence of the Lambs here, of course, but seasoned with Satanic Panic trappings and modern folklore. Longlegs doesn’t fit neatly into one subgenre, so fans of any flavour of horror should find something they like here.
The cast of Longlegs
Maika Monroe is Lee Harker; Blair Underwood is Agent Carter, Lee’s superior – and it’s nice to see him again; Alicia Witt, the OG Alia Atreides, is Ruth Harker, Lee’s hyper-religious mother; Michelle Choi-Lee is Agent Browning; Dakota Daulby is Agent Horatio Fisk; Kiernan Shipka, aka Sabrina, is Carrie Anne Camera, Longlegs’ only living victim. And… HOLY CRAP! Nicolas Cage is Longlegs. We are so in.
Longlegs trailer
Why we’re excited about Longlegs
Great director, great cast, great idea, Nicolas goddamn Cage – this ticks every box. And here’s the thing: in the States it’s a smash hit, raking in over $20m at the domestic box office – the best opening for an independent horror film ever, which has largely been attributed to the film’s canny viral marketing campaign. And the critics are calling it a masterpiece. Locally, the footprint is markedly smaller, but this strikes us the kind of film that is going to grow and grow as word of mouth spreads.
