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After Dream Scenario, I feel like late-career Cage can pull off a horror, but there are too many moving parts here. Who knows. And yes, I know that wasn’t a horror, but somehow the vibe was there.



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I felt like the first review has lowered my expectation a great deal


Summary. It's alright but marketing campaign is best thing about it.


I was really sold on the trailer so I didn't wanna hear that, thought this was going to be something special for a moment..



After Dream Scenario, I feel like late-career Cage can pull off a horror

I feel like hes got a job to ever top "Mandy" but perhaps that's just me.


Also see above..



I watched it over the weekend, & thought it was okay.

Just few minutes into the movie, I started getting Twin Peaks vibes from it. But unlike Twin Peaks, this movie lacked charming characters & the immersive, haunting music. & therefore the acting & the settings just feel odd.

Nicolas Cage was good, but it was Keirnan Shipka who stands out, despite having just one scene in the movie.

It's a decent horror/crime drama. However, it could have been so much more.



Im watching this right now. Hoping it's decent for all the marketing it went through.
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There are at least two threads on this here. In any case, quite apart from what I thought about it (nothing original; the first half was captivating, the second half — far less so; the nuns side of things was unnecessary; etc), I’m now desperate to find more films like it, thematically. I do think The Blackcoat’s Daughter fits the bill, but it’s an obvious one.

I don’t know if Google is just doomed because of AI, or what, but coupled with its hilarious and outlandish assumptions of what I’ll ‘love’ (Men?! Erm, no, can’t recall a film I hated more), and the fact nothing it suggests is actually thematically or stylistically similar to Longlegs, I didn’t spend as much time doing my own ‘research’ (is that even a thing anymore? *sob*) as I normally would.

Obviously, it’s very Zodiac and Silence of the Lambs, both of which I love, but I suppose I mean more arcane/less obvious picks.