2024 · horror · thriller
Longlegs
Directed by Osgood Perkins1h 41m2024
FBI Agent Lee Harker is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer. 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.
Our read: Longlegs (2024) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive horror · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, extreme horror / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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