Longlegs
Milkenzie (of the Milk)

Review by Milkenzie (of the Milk)

Longlegs 2024

★★★★½

Rewatched 18 Jul 2024

Saw this again already, two consecutive days at the very same theater. Initial thoughts did not change significantly.

As tends to happen with movies that really charm me, rewatching Longlegs blanketly intensified what feelings were already present. The aspects I enjoyed grew deeper roots, and the aspects I cared for less stood out a tad more sorely. Predictable beats felt flatter, some jump scares annoyed the fuck out of me, and the ending still landed like a slightly fumbled mic drop—so close but not quite there.

As for the good? I loved the music, adored the performances, and vibed considerably harder with the satanic-panic-via-glam energy. Leaning into decades old (and thoroughly disproven) paranoia around the link between queer rock music and the devil? So dated it's genius, possibly even some form of reclamation. Those annoyed by the themes of the later twists are putting on the wrong pair of goggles when it comes to media literacy. Longlegs isn't working against you, it's actually just throwing a party.

The innerworkings are more clever than they first appear, Nicholas Cage is the most confusingly charismatic actor in Hollywood, and I might even see this a third time before it leaves the cinema. And no, I still haven't watched a single trailer or dissected whatever this "hype" situation is.

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