Longlegs
David James 🍩

Review by David James 🍩 Pro

Longlegs 2024

★★★

Watched 01 Sep 2024

Longlegs is a valiant attempt to turn Silence of the Lambs into a modern all-vibes horror flick, thick with atmosphere and doom-laced music and phantom-limb photography and thin on character, plot, and thematic resonance. Caught somewhere between The Conjuring and Hereditary and, I dunno, something made by Mike Flanagan (I like Mike Flanagan). It's got a glossy visual flare and a dedication to making its trippy scares tangible, but it still manages to kind of just float loose in the ether, never hitting intellectually or emotionally with any real force. I had fun, and I'm well known to like vibes movies, but I couldn't help comparing it to the increasingly obvious and dead-simple equation that created it:

The Silence of the Lambs + director Osgood Perkins' own Blackcoat's Daughter = Longlegs

The only bad thing about this math is that meeting within sight of a masterpiece leaves you wishing for more.

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