a grizzly truffle forager and an underground criminal whose face is superimposed onto John Travolta.But Cage’s creepy, enigmatic Longlegs, with a squeaky voice and swollen face splotched by white paint, is on another messed-up level.Really, the entire addictive film, written and directed by Oz Perkins, is one of the best horror movies of the past several years.
Neither shield-your-eyes torture porn nor a by-the-book slasher flick, “Longlegs” is powered by an ever-present sense of dread that never lets up, an engrossing story and fascinating characters.
Its frightful imagery lingers in the mind for days, whether you want it to or not.The most obvious comparison in mood and subject matter is to Jonathan Demme’s seminal Best Picture Oscar winner “The Silence of the Lambs,” starring Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster.
Like “Lambs,” “Longlegs” is also about a newbie FBI agent who’s uniquely suited to tracking down a sought-after killer. However, whereas Clarice Starling was shrewdly able to coax information out of Dr.
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