Longlegs
Johann Rucker

Review by Johann Rucker Pro

Longlegs 2024

★★★★½

Watched 11 Jul 2024

Lee, are you still saying your prayers?

Succeeds entirely as an exercise in style and sustained tension, anchored by two dynamite performances from Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage. The screenplay is *fine* but you've got two top-notches actors giving it their absolute all. I think I straight-up held my breath every time Cage was on-screen - visceral would be an understatement. His character is conceived as an embodiment of my flight-or-flight mechanism, I wanted to run as far from him in the opposite direction as possible.

I find it really curious that we're getting two high-profile Satanic Panic adjacent movies in, like, a year's span, between this and Zach Cregger's upcoming WEAPONS, his follow-up to BARBARIAN. Is it just a renewed aesthetic interest in that period or is it a moral panic cycling back around a couple decades later?

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