FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
Oz Perkins's serial-killer horror earns strong notices for its suffocating atmosphere and Nicolas Cage's unhinged, shape-shifting performance, with most critics agreeing it gets deep under the skin. The main fault line runs between those who see its genre-blending — crime procedural, occult mystery, Satanic folklore — as ambitious and those who find the stylish surface concealing very little substance.
“It might be argued that he stirs too many elements into the mix here—crime procedural, occult mystery, mind manipulation, Satanic worship, scary dolls, a Faustian bargain and a 'nun' not fit for any convent. But Longlegs is [Perkins'] most fully realized and relentlessly effective film to date”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“Longlegs is stylish but vacuous, a prettily foreboding picture with nothing behind it. As Hannibal Lecter might say, it's a well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“Most impressive is how Perkins blends psychological and supernatural horror in a manner not quite seen before. Longlegs is a conjuring of dark, poetic cinema where the devil is definitely in the details”
Bob Strauss·San Francisco Chronicle
“Longlegs is as stylish as it is timeless, dripping with claustrophobic dread and rot.”
Meagan Navarro·Bloody Disgusting
Crime, Horror, Mystery
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
Oz Perkins's serial-killer horror earns strong notices for its suffocating atmosphere and Nicolas Cage's unhinged, shape-shifting performance, with most critics agreeing it gets deep under the skin. The main fault line runs between those who see its genre-blending — crime procedural, occult mystery, Satanic folklore — as ambitious and those who find the stylish surface concealing very little substance.
“It might be argued that he stirs too many elements into the mix here—crime procedural, occult mystery, mind manipulation, Satanic worship, scary dolls, a Faustian bargain and a 'nun' not fit for any convent. But Longlegs is [Perkins'] most fully realized and relentlessly effective film to date”
David Rooney·The Hollywood Reporter
“Longlegs is stylish but vacuous, a prettily foreboding picture with nothing behind it. As Hannibal Lecter might say, it's a well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste”
Richard Lawson·Vanity Fair
“Most impressive is how Perkins blends psychological and supernatural horror in a manner not quite seen before. Longlegs is a conjuring of dark, poetic cinema where the devil is definitely in the details”
Bob Strauss·San Francisco Chronicle
“Longlegs is as stylish as it is timeless, dripping with claustrophobic dread and rot.”
Meagan Navarro·Bloody Disgusting
Crime, Horror, Mystery