Neon
It’s solely February, however 2024 already feels prefer it wants a very good horror film to shake issues up. Final 12 months, audiences had been spoiled with the January delights of M3GAN and Infinity Pool and the promise of one more installment within the Scream franchise. To this point this 12 months, all we’ve gotten is a tepid Imply Ladies musical remake, one other Jason Statham motion film, and Argylle, which is simply scary in how unhealthy it’s. (Severely, don’t see it.)
Go away it to movie distributor Neon and beloved weirdo actor Nicolas Cage (Dream Situation) to avoid wasting the day. Over the previous few weeks, the previous has launched a sluggish trickle of recent information concerning the 2024 film, beginning with a sequence of intriguing posters that trace on the film’s American Gothic method to horror.
Creepy, huh? However what’s the film about, precisely? And what position does Cage, one of the vital revered actors round, play on this film? At present, Neon launched the primary trailer for the film, and after watching it, none of these questions are actually answered. That’s OK, although, for the reason that film appears extremely spooky and ought to be this 12 months’s Skinamarink, which gave off comparable “What the hell?” vibes this time final 12 months.
The film’s official tagline states “You’ve acquired the enamel of the hydra upon you,” which doesn’t bode nicely for the characters within the film. (Or, for that matter, anybody having a nice night time’s sleep after watching the film). The film’s plot remains to be a thriller, however Cage gave some perception into Longlegs when he was interviewed by New York Occasions journalist Kyle Buchanan final 12 months: “I play […] a possessed Geppetto. He makes these dolls, and these dolls infiltrate households and get the households to do horrible issues.” Fascinating. You’ll find extra information concerning the film in Buchanan’s Tweet about it.
Longlegs stars Cage, Maika Monroe (no stranger to the horror style with such movies as It Follows and 2022’s Watcher), Alicia Witt, and Blair Underwood. The director is Oz Perkins, who made the wonderful The Blackcoat’s Daughter in 2015 and is the son of Anthony Perkins, aka Norman Bates from Psycho. The movie was shot in Vancouver in early 2023.
Longlegs can be launched in theaters on July 12, 2024.
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