The cinematography was beautiful and I liked that it didn't take easy calls like that, it was more tense to just have it be this big empty abyss. What won more points is there were subtle hidden things like the Baphomet that's constantly following her - I asked my brother if he saw it but because he was so out of it he missed it completely. If they had cut straight after Nick Cage killed himself in the police station, I think it would have been at least 10x better without the exposition dump from the mother. Literally everything but the story was a win for me. Not every scary movie has to be a jump-at-you scary movie. Ambiance scary movies or creepy movies are cool too. Longlegs wasn’t scary in the sense that it shocks your senses, but it’s more like a slow creeping sense of dread… like it’s giving me anxiety more than fear lol.
The first 75% was such a banger, the opening was amazing, the cinematography was so good. I think I held my breath for like 90% of the movie. It was so eerie and creepy and nonsensical, it really put us in Harker’s POV.
Cage was incredible. I loved the absolute chaos of his performance and character. I think when someone is that unhinged and insane it’s truly terrifying because there’s barely any motive or method to their insanity. I kept seeing things moving in the background! And the red eyes on one of the dolls?!?! It kept fading in and out and it was so creepy.
I might be in the minority but I liked the satanic plotline, I think too many movies tease us with demons and satanic stuff then change it and say “oh it actually wasn’t paranormal at all”. So I liked that this movie leaned all the way into it and even created their own little mythos with Mr Downstairs. I liked when we didn’t see the inside of the mom’s locked room, just the horns of a statue.
And I'm about 98% certain that they used some of the sound blasts (idk how else to describe them) from the opening title crawl of the shining!!! I literally had goosebumps.
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