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Slashfilm by Bill Bria
After it's over, you won't soon forget what you've seen and heard. Even if you try, it'll come back — whether in your fantasies, your nightmares, or both.
Longlegs
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Set in 1990s Oregon, a serial killer who signs his notes “Longlegs” is on the loose. A promising new FBI recruit, Lee Harker, is put on the case and quickly discovers things are stranger than they seem. With clues pointing towards the occult and a personal connection to the killer, she must stop him before he kills again.
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Total Film by Neil Smith
The horrors, like Cage himself, are largely kept off-screen for much of the movie’s duration. Yet with its eerie soundscape and sepulchral visuals, Longlegs nevertheless succeeds as a deeply disconcerting experience, one that burrows into the brain as insidiously as the innocuous means its villain employs to disseminate his evil.
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Time Out by Phil de Semlyen
It’s artfully shot, the aspect ratio tightening claustrophobically as it flashes back to the 1970s. But Perkins’s script also sprinkles in sudden shocks, deeply macabre moments and slashes of dark humour to generate a deep unease all of its own.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Bob Strauss
Longlegs is a conjuring of dark, poetic cinema where the devil is definitely in the details.
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The A.V. Club by Matthew Jackson
Everything about it, from the performances to the production design to the sickly quality of the light in scene after scene, is designed to make us not just question what we’re seeing, but stand at a remove from it, like we’ve just seen a wild animal behaving strangely. Like that wild animal might just lash out and bite us if we get too close.
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The Telegraph by Tim Robey
Only about once every two or three years does a horror-thriller as good as Longlegs lope into view. It crackles with eerie dread. Nested away is perhaps the most terrifying performance of Nicolas Cage’s career – among the funniest, too.
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Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh
The tension never lets up throughout Longlegs, though it is peppered with a dry, black humor that somehow just makes everything more disturbing.
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Original-Cin by Jim Slotek
The interesting thing about the remarkably intense, violent police-procedural/occult-drama Longlegs is that it doesn’t overplay the Cage card.
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The Playlist by Charles Barfield
Longlegs is a film that will crawl under your skin and live there for 100 minutes. It will make you uncomfortable.
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Screen Daily by Tim Grierson
Myriad horror films create a sense of dread, but few manage to evoke the palpable evil that emanates from Longlegs.
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