Longlegs
A young FBI agent investigates a serial killer who cackles, dresses creepily and likes to leave cryptic clues at the scene of the crime. Longlegs is another belt of 1990s horror for those who can’t get enough Seven, It or The Silence of the Lambs. It’s derivative and yet it’s also its own beast, involving, excellently crafted and stonkingly acted. And Nicolas Cage is in it – as mad as a bat and every second he’s on the screen wildly entertaining, and freaky. Director Osgood Perkins’s decision to shoot it all like an Edward Hopper painting – still, flat, empty, so many brown hues – is the masterstroke, and Maika Monroe plays along … Read more
