'Longlegs' movie review: Chilling visuals but lacking in scares

Updated On: 13 July, 2024 03:32 PM IST | Mumbai | Johnson Thomas

`Longlegs` movie review: This serial killer mystery shrouded in dark magic has it’s shocking moments. But they never amount to anything horrifying

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Still from Longlegs

Film: Longlegs
Cast: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Lauren Acala, Kiernan Shipka
Director: Osgood Perkins
Rating: 3/5
Runtime: 101 min.

Director Osgood Perkins, son of Anthony Perkins (of ‘Psycho’ fame) and model/actress Berry Berenson,(who perished in the first plane to hit the World Trade Center), gave up a fledgling acting career ( the 1983 remake ‘Psycho’ & ‘Legally Blonde’), and since, has been steadily rising up in the ranks directing original introspective horror movies (“The Blackcoat’s Daughter”,“I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House”,“Gretel & Hansel”). His latest, “LongLegs” has been accumulating hype ever since its first trailer was launched several months ago. So is the rather unprecedented hype for a shoestring budget horror film warranted

The trailer was alluring enough for horror fans waiting to see something different… but the film does not live up to the hype. Firstly, this is not exactly a horror film. It’s more of a FBI procedural in search of a serial killer connected with a satanic cult. The film stars Maika Monroe as Lee Harker a tortured, newly inducted FBI agent assigned to trail the Satan-worshipping serial killer, Longlegs played by Nicolas Cage, unrecognisable in face changing prosthetics and several inches of pancake.

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