Longlegs Creeps Home Just in Time to Freak Your Weekend

Longlegs—a captious and box-office deed that precocious claimed the title “highest-grossing indie movie of 2024″—is acceptable to travel home. Did you person “lingering nightmares” connected your database of play plans? Because a serial slayer is astir to peek done your model and clang your day party. Starting August 23, the movie arrives connected integer for rental and purchase; a carnal merchandise is coming September 24.

Though it’ll beryllium hard to hold immoderate longer if you didn’t drawback Longlegs successful the theater, the 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD enactment mightiness beryllium your champion bet; according to Neon it comes with bonus materials that see “on-set interviews with formed and unit and feature-length commentary with writer-director Osgood Perkins.” io9 got a accidental to speech to Perkins erstwhile Longlegs deed theaters, and he’s a thoughtful, insightful creator (on apical of being the lad of Psycho prima Anthony Perkins, and a sometimes histrion himself who’s appeared successful Nope, Legally Blonde, and more). His commentary volition nary uncertainty beryllium a fascinating listen.

While Longlegs is simply a movie champion experienced without knowing too overmuch astir what to expect, adjacent casual popular civilization followers volition cognize it stars Nicolas Cage arsenic a distinctively disturbing murderer. Maika Monroe (It Follows) plays a young FBI cause whose intuitive abilities marque her uniquely suited to prosecute him—a endowment noted by her boss, played by Blair Underwood. Longlegs‘ communicative starts disconnected arsenic a recognizable homage to acquainted transgression thrillers, particularly Silence of the Lambs, but past spirals down a antithetic path, drafting connected cautiously crafted accumulation plan that infuses eerie dread into its mundane, grey world.

“When I sat down to constitute the movie, the question successful my caput was: what’s the invitation to the assemblage that I tin marque aboriginal connected that benignant of gets radical successful the roller coaster car? What gains them admittance to the world? What’s the extremity of the spear?,” Perkins told io9. “For me, Silence of the Lambs had been specified a hugely impactful movie—it came retired erstwhile I was 15 oregon 16-ish [when] I truly started getting funny successful movies, and each of a abrupt you’re handed this immaculate thing. I don’t deliberation immoderate of america who are that property and are filmmakers volition hide the effect of the perfection of that movie, conscionable like, ‘Wow, they truly conscionable nailed it. This is truthful satisfying connected truthful galore levels.’ I conscionable cheated. I conscionable utilized it arsenic a crib, arsenic a mode to soften oregon tenderize the audience, to say, ‘You know, it’s this! You retrieve this.’ And then, of course, instrumentality a beauteous hard near crook to marque it not that astatine all.”

Longlegs arrives connected integer and connected request August 23; 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD get September 24.

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