Longlegs
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Longlegs 2024

★★★½

Watched 16 Jul 2024

Much has been said about whether this film is the scariest of the decade or if it’s even scary at all. Personally, I don’t think it is. Not that it matters much since it’s a really good film regardless. You don’t often find contemporary horrors tackle fear from a crime procedural perspective so in that sense this film felt fresh. Reminiscent of classic Fincher and Lynch, Oz Perkins has a striking cinematic eye that is meticulously designed to fill the screen with immersive atmosphere and metaphorical imagery. 

There’s a sense of dread building in the empty space that Maika Monroe finds herself in heart pounding fashion. I do think towards the end it reveals its hand a bit too fast so that unease that was present throughout dissipated faster than I’d like, and Cage didn’t particularly do much for me and the mystery of Longlegs isn’t anything as special as you’d think. I just kept thinking of the dollmaker from that one Arrow episode lol. As for Kiernan, I feel she was a highlight with her single scene and deserved more. My one issue with Lee’s mum is how extensive her flashbacks felt, I think we got it the first time when they showed the position she was in and why she had to make the choice she did. Maika though, played the young agent, new to the crime scene really well and her emotionality felt believable. 

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