{"id":23110,"date":"2024-07-11T09:16:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T16:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=23110"},"modified":"2024-07-24T05:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T12:42:31","slug":"longlegs-nicolas-cage-horror-sleeper-hit-year-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/longlegs-nicolas-cage-horror-sleeper-hit-year-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks To Nic Cage, Longlegs Could Be The Sleeper Horror Hit Of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neon&#8217;s horror-thriller <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/longlegs\/351202\">Longlegs<\/a><\/strong><\/em> is soon to hit theaters and it very well could be the sleeper horror hit of the year. The story follows Maika Monroe&#8217;s young FBI agent Lee Harker, who is on the biggest case of her life chasing down a serial killer who has left a series of gruesome discoveries in his wake. The path to the killer known only as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage) is littered with a series of dark occult clues that lead Lee through a nightmarish race to solve the puzzles Longlegs leaves and end his killing spree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LONGLEGS | The End Trailer | In Theaters July 12\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FXOtkvx25gI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The premise alone sounds promising and the trailers have been excellent. However, promise alone doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean a new horror movie will land. Longlegs, however, has what it takes to become a true classic. Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Critics Are Comparing It To The Silence of the Lambs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/longlegs-1024x577.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/longlegs-980x552.png 980w, https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/longlegs-480x270.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the trailers, you might have seen the pullquote being splashed around that it&#8217;s the best psychological thriller since <em>The Silence of the Lambs<\/em>. That is incredibly high praise and an even higher bar to set seeing as how <em>Silence of the Lambs <\/em>was showered with critical and commercial praise, and became only the third film ever to win the &#8220;Big Five&#8221; at the 1991 Oscars: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best (Adapted) Screenplay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And while it&#8217;s fair to say critics can sometimes get hyperbolic with their praise coming out of a screening as they&#8217;re hoping to be quoted, everything about <em>Longlegs<\/em> so far suggests they&#8217;re not exaggerating here. It&#8217;s getting quite good reviews, and it&#8217;s been a while since we&#8217;ve gotten a solid killer-thriller that doesn&#8217;t just descend into pulp. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Marketing Campaign Is Great<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heartbeat | LONGLEGS\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rKtNhsGy73Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Neon is clearly high up on <em>Longlegs<\/em>, too, as it&#8217;s been taking care to roll out a clever marketing campaign centering on the fear of the characters. Especially smart is the decision to hide Nic Cage&#8217;s Longlegs from the trailers and promo material, creating a boogeyman mystique around him that should serve the performance well. It&#8217;s one thing to see the monster in theaters after having already seen him in multiple trailers; it&#8217;s another to go in blind and feel one&#8217;s reaction to the monster for the first time. Neon is choosing the latter route, and it&#8217;s a smart one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nic Cage Turns In A Performance For The Ages<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nicolas-cage-as-longlegs-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nicolas-cage-as-longlegs-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nicolas-cage-as-longlegs-980x613.png 980w, https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/nicolas-cage-as-longlegs-480x300.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who love a good unhinged Nic Cage performance can revel in the fact that one of <em>Longlegs<\/em>&#8216; strongest points of praise is Cage as the serial killer. If you&#8217;re wondering why the above picture is so blurry, it&#8217;s because, again, Neon is making a point to hide him in all the trailers &#8211; that shot is only a fraction of a second and his face is still mostly hidden. It&#8217;s best to let him cook, as the saying goes, and they understand this with Cage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems the decision to let Nicolas Cage be Nicolas Cage is a savvy one: his performance is one of his most memorably gonzo performances, over-the-top in a nightmarishly unsettling way. Cage does intense maniac better than just about any actor in Hollywood, and he uses his penchant for tapping into the darkly bonkers part of a role to great effect. In <em>Longlegs<\/em>, he gives a genuinely disturbing performance that will work its way under your skin. If for no other reason, it&#8217;s worth it to go to theaters just to see Cage do his thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atomtickets.com\/movies\/longlegs\/351202\">Get tickets for <em>Longlegs<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neon&#8217;s horror-thriller Longlegs is soon to hit theaters and it very well could be the sleeper horror hit of the year. 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