Longlegs
Nick Stimer

Review by Nick Stimer Patron

Longlegs 2024

★★★★½

Watched 11 Jul 2024

Every static shot in this film has so much depth. So meticulously crafted to keep your eyes darting around the screen to every dark corner, through every door and window searching for anything to put this relentless anxiety at ease. It will never come. The atmosphere of impending dread that Oz Perkins creates is truly frightening. All the moving pieces, whether it's the lighting, the performances—Maika Monroe with maybe my favorite performance of the year and Nicolas Cage in his element—the score, set design, framing, blocking. Everything comes perfectly together to create such an unsettling atmosphere that never stops cutting deeper and deeper into you as the film progresses. Even after seeing the film and driving all the way home, sitting in my chair typing out this review, it feels like my brain is still in a fuzz from how relentlessly this film attacked my brain and clawed its way inside me. I will be thinking about this one for a very long time.



I also want to quickly draw attention to the cinematographer Andres Arochi. This is literally bros first film??!!!! Unfucking real I wanna see this guy do so much more. One of the best looking films of the year without a doubt.

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