Longlegs
Kellen Gallagher

Review by Kellen Gallagher Patron

Longlegs 2024

★★★★

Watched 11 Jul 2024

Terror is subjective. What makes my skin crawl might make you laugh, but fuck this did both to me. I don’t know how well this is going to be received but my brain is on fire. It’s an incredibly atmospheric piece, you’re dipped into this bucket of blood and despair until you’re suffocating. The scares here don’t come from your conventional jump scares or spooks, this is something more sinister. I felt uneasy the entire time like someone was peeling away the layers of my mind. It’s a slow gnawing that breaks you down over the course of the film until you just want a release.

Cage does this wonderously perverted old woman thing and he fucking kills it. Just having a blast and scarring everyone. I cannot stop thinking about his sickening powdered face.

Perkins shoots this with a cold hostile lens. It’s such a spiritual successor to Se7en, every thriller element is perfectly executed, I was scared to blink and miss a frame.

Not to spoil the ending but I absolutely love how everything wraps up, it feels like a perfect conclusion that draws the line between the supernatural and the real horror in our world.

This film also has the hardest line I’ve ever heard in a horror movie and it contains the word “kitchen.” If you’ve seen the film you know what I’m talking about.

Cannot wait to discuss this with other people, this lives up to the hype for me and that’s so fucking rare.

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