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Rudie Obias editor If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. One of the scariest movies of the summer will soon be streaming. “Longlegs” is a big surprise hit taking in more than $100 million at the worldwide box office, which makes it the highest grossing indie film of the year.

Nicolas Cage has said he based his satanic serial killer character in Longlegs on his mother, something he has described as “constructive”.Directed by Osgood Perkins (the son of Anthony Perkins, who played Norman Bates in Psycho), the horror thriller follows FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) who is assigned to a number of unsolved killings across town connected to a mysterious figure known as Longlegs.Cage plays the titular Longlegs, who is joined by other cast members Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby and Kiernan Shipka.In a recent interview with the New Yorker, the actor revealed that he drew inspiration for the character from the unlikely source of his own mother, Joy Vogelsang.“Not that she was satanic,” he clarified. “But her vocalisations, the way she would move.”He added that there were just a few vocal tics that he recalled from his childhood that were helpful for him when getting into the Longlegs headspace.“She would talk, like, ‘Oooh, Nicky, you looked just like a little bird when you were born’,” he continued.

Longlegs is one of the breakout horror films of this year’s summer season.Directed by Osgood Perkins, the horror thriller follows FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) who is assigned to a number of unsolved killings across town connected to a mysterious figure known as Longlegs.Nicolas Cage plays the titular Longlegs, who is joined by other cast members Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby and Kiernan Shipka.After Longlegs mentions her mother before he kills himself, Lee Harker visits her mother Ruth to see if she’s connected to the satanic murders. Lee travels to her house with Agent Browning, who stays in the car while Lee investigates the house.

Maika Monroe is showing off some skin on the Longlegs red carpet!

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