{"id":38430,"date":"2025-03-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38430"},"modified":"2025-03-01T20:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:21:45","slug":"longlegs-2024-written-directed-by-osgood-perkins-starring-maika-monroe-nicolas-cage-blair-underwood-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=38430","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Longlegs&#8221; (2024) written &amp; directed by Osgood Perkins; starring Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage &amp; Blair Underwood \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030225zview_longlegs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Longlegs <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Osgood Perkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Osgood Perkins<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota Daulby, Kiernan Shipka, Jason William Day, Lisa Chandler <\/strong>and <strong>Shafin Karim<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s discovered that rookie FBI agent Lee Harker (Monroe) has some psychic ability.\u00a0 For that reason Harker is assigned to a small task force working to find the serial killer known as Longlegs.\u00a0 For years, Longlegs has wiped out entire families by forcing the father to kill his children, wife and then himself.\u00a0 Longlegs then leaves coded Satanic messages behind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shortly after Harker is assigned to the task force she receives a message from Longlegs.\u00a0 Slowly Harker begins to realize she may have a connection to the killer.\u00a0 As the clock ticks and the date of Longlegs&#8217; next family massacre draws near, Harker works to discover Longlegs&#8217; identity.<\/p>\n<p>Tick&#8230;tick&#8230;tick&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Although Nicolas Cage starred as the killer, Longlegs, writer\/director Osgood Perkins requested that posters\/trailers limit his use to promote the film so when he appears onscreen in the film it would be even more frightening.<\/p>\n<p><em>Longlegs<\/em> is the highest-grossing independent horror film since <em>Insidious: Chapter 2<\/em> (2013).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kudos to director Osgood Perkins.\u00a0 He films each scene to at angles to increase tension.\u00a0 Halls feel long and narrow.\u00a0 Doors, windows and rooms in the background create concern.\u00a0 There is always the feeling that something beyond the camera&#8217;s focus is about to occur.\u00a0 Sometimes it does.\u00a0 Creepy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Longlegs <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z030225zview_longlegs2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"173\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longlegs (2024) Director:\u00a0 Osgood Perkins Screenplay: Osgood Perkins Stars: Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood, Alicia Witt, Michelle Choi-Lee, Dakota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,51,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38468,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38430\/revisions\/38468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}