Longlegs (Neon) [Film Review]

Longlegs has finally arrived on a wave of hype, claiming this to be the scariest horror film in years. Bloody Disgusting has released one of those audience reaction reels online, which mirrors a similar campaign for The Exorcist back in the day, and it is undoubtedly the kind of film that merits such treatment. If this was the ’70s, it would no doubt still be a major cult film. Sadly, this is 2024, so it will likely be lost in the mass of other horror movies being churned out of the multiplexes, but it is still mightily unique. Osgood Perkins, son of Anthony (Norman Bates) Perkins, has presented us with a film that is certainly not as conventionally scary as the hype would have us believe but comfortably sits in the modern canon of unnerving psychological thrillers that get right beneath t...

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