It has been full steam ahead on the hype train for writer-director Oz Perkins’ Longlegs . But has the son of horror icon Anthony Norman Bates Perkins lived up to his lineage in the genre?
Predominately speaking yes as while Longlegs is no instant classic, it makes several creative choices that shocked even a long-term horror buff like myself.
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Told in three parts, a Hannibal Lector-Clarice Starling -esque dynamic develops between Longlegs and Maika Monroe’s FBI agent ( Lee Harper ) - only with a possibly more personal connection.
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