Last year, Longlegs ran a serial killer thriller in the cinema, which is based on the height of the genre as the silence of the lambs. The film by director Osgood Perkins became a mega success commercially. This is a stroke of luck because Behind the hype is there a visual horror master’s work With a scary good Nicolas Cage.
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Series killer cracker in the stream: that’s what Longlegs is about
In the film’s plot, IT FOLLOWS star Maika Monroe plays the young FBI agent Lee Harker, who will eventually chase a mysterious serial killer (Nicolas Cage) in the 90s. This not only has several families on their conscience who die according to inexplicable patterns, but is probably probably caught up in occult practices. At some point Lee reveals that she is personally connected to the cases.
Look here a German trailer for Longlegs:
Longlegs – Trailer 2 (German) HD
Horror Highlight Longlegs transforms serial killer hunting into hell trip
With the cat-and-mouse game between the main character and the puzzling killer in the background, Longlegs quickly reminds comparable serial killer highlights. Director Osgood Perkins gradually relies on a very own mythology that is in the as impressive as it is oppressive composed develops details by partly bizarre.
An event in itself is the performance of Nicolas Cage, which was completely held out of trailers before the film was published. For a long time, the extravagant star has not been staged as fascinating as in Longlegs. At this point we don’t reveal too much to his serial killer. In any case, he later turns out to be a marker -shattering key figure in this satanic puzzle, which connects supernatural horrors with real horror.
Longlegs became a surprise success at the box office
With a budget that is said to be less than $ 10 million, Longlegs was able to Almost $ 127 million at the global box office import. This made the film, especially in terms of its comparatively moderate production costs, an absolute surprise success.
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In the United States alone, Longlegs developed behind a quiet place: Day one and alien: Romulus to the third most successful horror release 2024. This is particularly remarkable because the strip does not belong to a larger franchise and is an independent, original genre vision.
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