The marketing campaign for Longlegs was perfection. Glowing early reviews, a knockout trailer, and glimpses of Nicolas Cage in the title role as a demonic serial killer. The movie… was not. What went wrong?
Maika Monroe (It Follows) stars as Lee Harker, an FBI agent with psychic abilities. After demonstrating her skills in the field, she’s offered a crack at solving the case of the mysterious serial killer Longlegs (Nicolas Cage). Writer/Director Oz Perkins maintains an atmosphere of creepy dread for the first half, but eventually his film devolves into a nightmare of stupidity.
Join Jon and Tim as they discuss everything wrong with Longlegs, Disney World and ferris wheels, the famous horror roots of Oz Perkins, 90’s TV Hawaii episodes, Tim’s discovery of Game of Thrones, how to handle disruptive movie theater audiences, the many versions of Nicolas Cage, the best movie marketing campaign in recent history, Maika Monroe’s elegant take on the scream queen, believing in demons in the age of hyper-individualism, the fruits of the spirit vs. the fruits of the flesh, generational evil, and defeating darkness by striving toward the light.
