Longlegs
longlegs does what I’ve honestly realized I love in a good horror, and that’s a sense of dread. the entire film, it’s just dread. yeah there are a couple jumpscares peppered in which are fun, but it doesn’t take away from it. the world in this film is cold, cruel. so many shots where it lingers on an open doorway, a field in the dead of night, slowly zooming in. within the opening seconds, the film trains you to search every inch of the screen for something wrong. you feel like you’re being watched. you feel cage breathing down your neck. you feel uneasy. you leave this film feeling like total shit. it’s like when you find a nest of spiders in the corner of your room, or your pets are infested with fleas. you clean it out, disinfect everything, but that feeling of bugs crawling all over you lingers. the sense of dread and despair in longlegs lingers. truly an unsettling and dreadful experience. holy shit. easily the best horror of 2024. i wanted to crawl out of my skin. cannot wait to see it again.
CAN’T CAGE THE CAGE, BABY