A brand new teaser for Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs reveals off the exceptionally creepy character performed by Nicolas Cage, however be conscious of spoilers.
SPOILER WARNING! In an age the place trailers can spoil nearly all the things a film has to supply, the advertising and marketing marketing campaign for Longlegs has truly been very refreshing. That mentioned, in the event you’d wish to hold the Longlegs thriller alive, significantly in terms of the character performed by Nicolas Cage, I’d suggest opting out of watching this newest teaser.
Since these first few cryptic teasers, we’ve got realized extra about Longlegs, however there nonetheless seems like a lot left to find. A brand new quick teaser for the upcoming horror thriller has been launched, providing a few fleeting glimpses of Cage’s creepy serial killer character.
Directed and written by Osgood Perkins (I Am the Fairly Factor That Lives within the Home), Longlegs stars Maika Monroe as FBI Agent Lee Harker, “a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.” Along with Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage, Longlegs additionally stars Alicia Witt (City Legend), Blair Underwood (LA Legislation), and Kiernan Shipka (Mad Males). The movie is alleged to be “within the vein of traditional Hollywood psychological thrillers.“
Whereas talking with horror icon John Carpenter, Cage has teased that the movie is “about a character who’s hearing voices. It’s kind of like a possessed Geppetto, who’s making these dolls…” Cage can at all times be counted upon to carry his A-game with each efficiency, however this seems to be to be one thing very totally different, and I can’t wait to see what he’ll carry to this twisted serial killer.
The first reactions to Longlegs emerged final month and have been extraordinarily optimistic, with some calling it the scariest film of the yr and a recent Silence of the Lambs with glorious performances from everybody concerned. It appears like precisely the kind of movie that’s going to get beneath your pores and skin in one of the simplest ways—creepy, unsettling, disturbing—simply what we’d like. Longlegs might be launched on July twelfth.
