Bonus Review: Longlegs

Say Your Prayers

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INTRODUCTION

This is a quick review of the newly released film Longlegs. Keep in mind this is but one of the many movies I watch every year, and that whatever initial grade I come up for this film could change for better or worse with time. To better keep up to date with both my thoughts on other movies and if my feelings on this film changed, follow me on Letterboxd.

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THE PLOT

Via Letterboxd: In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.

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QUICK REVIEW

It seems every year there is a horror movie that has many buzzing and declaring such things like “This is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen!”, or “I am absolutely shaken to the core and disturbed by what I just saw!”, and “This is a new horror classic!”. And almost every time I walk away from such movies shrugging my shoulders and saying they were decent, but they didn’t live up to the hype.

This year’s contender for that title is the new Oz Perkins film, distributed by the cinephile darlings Neon, Longlegs. The hype around this one has seen such good word of mouth that a small indie horror is seeing packed crowds at the theatres. I was surprised to see how many were at my local public screening on a Thursday night for this one. With great critical reviews, praise for Nicolas Cage, and the typical hyperbole about a movie that scared people to the point they couldn’t sleep afterwards, the movie caught my attention.

Typically I would wait for the Neon FYC box set at the end of the year to catch something like this, but the word-of-mouth was so insane I had no other choice but to go check this out for myself. Did I leave completely blown over and ready to declare this the greatest horror film of the year? Or did I leave like I did with previously hyped indie horror movies, shrugging my shoulders and saying “Its aight.”?