23, male. Aspiring filmmaker. Gay af. I watch shit and I have no guilty pleasures.
Everything 3.5 stars and above I like.
Thankfully this holds up just as well watched from home (with a nice headset!) as it did in theatres. Still has some minor flaws I talked about in my previous review, but it by no means outweighs all the good in this movie whatsoever. It’s still never once gets loses its unsettling grasp on me and is genuinely creepy in a way most horror movies, especially modern ones, aren't usually able to achieve. What an incredible sound design this has.
Longlegs…
Glad to have rewatched this after nearly 6 years. Thankfully, it isn’t nostalgic blinding me. This movie, albeit imperfect, is genuinely as creepy, yet oddly familiar as I it. It truly feels like Osgood Perkins’s spiritual predecessor to Longlegs. It’s more obvious than ever that this was a stepping stone to that film, down to even their depictions of the devil and their truly metal and unnerving invocations to Satan.
But I hadn’t noticed so much until now is…
I was warned this was a waste of time, but I still wanted to give it a chance because of all the good reviews of this. My friends were right. I seriously can’t understand the elitist snobs who pretend this is shit-your-pants scary and amazing just so they can puff themselves up and think of themselves as better than you.
Half a star for the effort despite the low production values and the potential, and that’s being generous. This could’ve…
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Have you ever curiously dived down esoteric rabbit holes on the internet (e.g. The Finders, MK-Ultra) and find yourself having a deep sense of dread and a sense that you shouldn’t be looking at it? This movie, in my opinion, is the closest thing to bringing that feeling to life.
This film is damn near perfect, and I can’t wait to rewatch it. Longlegs is Osgood Perkins’s chilling love letter to occultism, true crime, the satanic panic, glam rock, conspiracies,…