Longlegs is a 2024 American horror suspenser written and directed by Osgood Perkins. This movie cast Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, who also produced the film through his Saturn Films production company. The cast also features Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, and Dakota Daulby in supporting places. The film follows an FBI agent assigned with tracking down an occultist periodical killer responsible for mucking up multiple families across America, without having been physically present in the crimes.
Neon released Longlegs in the United States on July 12, 2024. It entered positive reviews from critics.
Longlegs Movie Cast
- Maika Monroe as Lee Harker, an FBI agent assigned to Longlegs’ case
- Lauren Acala as young Lee
- Nicolas Cage as Longlegs, an elusive serial killer whose real name is Dale Cobble
- Blair Underwood as Agent Carter, Lee’s superior
- Alicia Witt as Ruth Harker, Lee’s religious mother
- Michelle Choi-Lee as Agent Browning
- Dakota Daulby as Agent Horatio Fisk
- Kiernan Shipka as Carrie Anne Camera, Longlegs’ only known survivor
- Maila Hosie as young Carrie Anne
- Jason Day as Father Camera
- Lisa Chandler as Mother Camera
- Ava Kelders as Ruby Carter
- Rryla McIntosh as an adult Ruby
- Carmel Amit as Anna Carter
- Peter James Bryant as senior FBI agent
Longlegs Movie crew
- Directed by Osgood Perkins
- Written by Osgood Perkins
- Produced by Dan Kagan, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Nicolas Cage, Dave Caplan, and Chris Ferguson
- Cinematography Andrés Arochi
- Edited by Greg Ng, Graham Fortin
- Music by Zilgi
Longlegs Movie story
In 1970s Oregon, a little girl with a Polaroid camera follows a mysterious voice behind her house, where she’s approached by an erratic( explanation demanded), pale man who appears to have had severe scars caused by ornamental surgery. He exclaims how he wore his” longlegs”( due to his assessing height), before wishing her a happy birthday and suddenly leaning in at her.
In the 1990s, recently signed FBI agent Lee Harker displayed inexplainable suspicion in the field, similar to rightly assuming a nearby home houses a killer. Through testing, she’s theorized to have possible second sight. As a result, she’s assigned to a decades-long- gauging case of a series of brutal murders– self-murders involving families throughout the state of Oregon. In each incident, the father boggled his woman and children before taking his own life, and left at each crime scene is a letter with cryptic, Cacodemonic coding, that’s inked” Longlegs”. The handwriting belongs to none of the victims, despite no forensic substantiation of any home irruption or outside parties present.
Lee fleetly connects parallels between the families Each had at least one 9- time–old son born on the 14th of the month, and the murders all passed within six days ahead or after the birthday itself. When written out on a direct timetable, the dates of the murders form an occult symbol of a reversed triangle, with one date missing to complete the shape.
Following an indication, Lee and her administrator, Carter, disinter a doll buried beneath one of the former crime scenes, and inside its head, find a strange essence sphere. Lee sees violent psychic flashes when they interact with it, and the monitor aiding them admits that he allowed him to hear his former woman‘s name while near the doll. Despite Carter’s dubitation, Lee theorizes that each family entered an analogous doll from Longlegs, and he has been investing the balls within each doll with some kind of evil energy that can retain and impact those near it. Carter grows concerned that Lee is connected to Longlegs after seeing hints of Longlegs’ knowledge of Lee and her mama Ruth.
Lee goes to visit her mama, who denies any memory of Lee’s 9th birthday but subtly directs Lee to search through her nonage things. Upstairs, Lee finds a casket in her nonage bedroom containing a mound of Polaroids. Among them is a picture of the pale-faced man, revealing her to be the girl from the preface. Knowing now that she was visited by Longlegs, she submits the picture, allowing the FBI to track him down and arrest him.
Fearful after realizing the missing date on the reversed triangle is that day, Lee believes Longlegs may have an abettor. In the interrogation room, he tells her that he serves” the man downward .” He tells Lee to question her mama‘s involvement in his crimes, publicizing” Hail Satan” before constantly slamming his face and jaw into the essence table, ultimately killing himself after shattering open his forepart and nose.
Driving back to her mama‘s home with a superior to seize her for questioning, Lee sees Ruth boggling her superior with a shotgun. Ruth also shoots the head of a doll suggesting a youthful Lee, causing Lee to lose knowledge.
In a recited flashback, it’s revealed that Ruth has been Longlegs’ abettor ever since Lee’s hassle with him. Longlegs returned in the night to attack and subdue Ruth, forcing her to make a choice — let her son be boggled as part of the ritual, or to do his bidding to spare her. She complied, leaving Lee to be the missing birthday on the triangle. Longlegs has lived in the Harker house basement ever ago, creating dolls he’d inoculate with his Cacodemonic magic. Ruth would pose as a nun delivering a gift from the church to bring the dolls to the families. Lee’s doll has been guiding her with the Cacodemonic influence of Longlegs since nonage.
Awakening in the basement, Lee answers the phone to hear a satanic voice annunciate,” You are late for Ruby’s party.” Realizing Agent Carter’s son, Ruby, has her ninth birthday that day and that the Wagon’s deaths would complete Longlegs’ triangle, Lee races to intermediate, only to discover that Ruth had formerly delivered the doll to the family, who are all formerly held. After Carter murders his woman, Lee shoots and kills Carter to cover Ruby. Ruth brandishes a dagger, and Lee is forced to shoot and kill her mama.
Lee attempts to shoot the doll‘s head, but inexplicably, the gun doesn’t fire. Lee tells Ruby they need to leave but remains firm in place, gaping at the doll, as the voice of Longlegs begins singing” Happy Birthday”.
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Longlegs Movie more
- Production companies C2 Motion Picture Group, Traffic.Range, Oddfellows, Saturn Films
- Distributed by Neon (United States), Black Bear International (International)
- Release date July 12, 2024
- Running time 101 minutes
- Country United States
- Language English
- Budget <$10 million
- Box office $33.3 million
