TV show or Movie: Movie
Where to watch: Theaters
Writer: Oz Perkins
Director: Oz Perkins
Premise: In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Cast: Maika Monroe, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Nicolas Cage.
Review: Well, I was super disappointed in this movie. I hate the marketing strategies that horror movie use now. Before Midsommar was released, there were ads talking about people passing out in theaters, vomiting, being taken to the hospital. And there was one scene in the whole movie that grossed me out a little. With Longlegs, there were ads about Maika Monroe’s heartbeat on set and then on set seeing Nicholas Cage for the first time. I say that these marketing campaigns don’t work on me, but I guess they still subconsciously get to me. I was super excited for this one. It was hailed as the new Silence of the Lambs. I guess the only part of it that was similar was it featured a female detective who happened to know the killer.
There are scenes in the movie with Monroe or Cage where I didn’t know where or not to laugh or not. Nicholas Cage’s character not only looked like a Batman villian, but also had a similar name to one of the main antagonists in Gotham.
I was disappointed to find out the film had a certain element/theme to it that it did. I really wish it stuck to being more realistic.
And the whole third act was just full of plot holes.
And the jump scares in the movie felt very cheap. The only jump scenes were flashbacks that showed up quickly on screen with a loud, shrieking sound to scare viewers.