Longlegs
Nic Cage’s supremacy reigns as he loses himself in this deeply demented serial killer film. Following FBI Agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) as she hunts for the occult serial killer Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), I was already hooked by the cool viral marketing campaign, and felt deeply rewarded by the final film. Longlegs feels dirty, like a beat-up VHS tape that the killer from Se7en would hide in a floorboard. Every frame of the film makes your skin crawl, and both Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage are powerhouses. It’s hard to measure up to Cage’s power as an actor and Monroe steps up as an intense, visceral actor, without sacrificing any vulnerability. Director Osgood Perkins has been making great horror films for a while like The Blackcoat’s Daughter or I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House, and it’s satisfying that Longlegs boosted him to the mainstream, and is also a masterpiece.
