Longlegs (Dead Meat Podcast Ep. 216) 

The opening shot of longlegs driving up to the house is done from the dolls perspective, you'll notice the camera is positioned in the passenger seat. Since long legs puts pieces of himself inside of each doll, I think that he can also see from their eyes. I think that when he tells young Lee that he has his "long legs on" it's because when interacting with the children he's usually in the doll's position and the doll is the height of the children.

54:58 the mirroring of the agent telling Lee he’s right under her feet in the interrogation room, while he’s also been right under her feet her whole childhood gave me chills when i realized

another cool detail was when lee is on her phone talking to her mom the first time, and she says something about how she worries because her mom takes so long to get to the phone even though the house was small…..because she was in the basement

Very disappointed that we didn't get a post credit scene of all 28 minutes of nic cage singing

32:58 I kind of thought that her bosses’ insistence that Longlegs was working alone and that the case is closed was sort of an indication that he’s been anxious about his daughter’s birthday landing on that date. This sort of denial like “ok, he’s dead, I don’t have to worry about it any more” like he felt he just needed to close the case before that day and his family would be ok

*sighs* *resets "it has been X days since the Psycho remake was mentioned in the podcast" sign*

From “we’re boyfriend and girlfriend” and “we’re engaged” to “we’re married and we like to get scared together.” Is so cool to see and I’m glad to be a part of the Dead Meat family.

Mom wasn't always a hoarder. There's a scene in the beginning where you see the landing & I remember thinking damn, it's so *clean.* The hoarding and mental degradation starts after she makes the deal with Longlegs to save her daughter.

the thing about longlegs is that it isn’t “cry-and-scream-and-shit-and-piss-your-pants-from-fear” scary, it’s “the-devil-is-real-and-he’s-under-my-skin-and-he’s-coming-for-me” scary. i think that if they didn’t lean into pure horror for the trailers then reception would be a lot less mixed than it already is, but i’m still glad that most people seem to see it for what it is, which is a really fucking solid satanic-panic thriller piece!

Blair underwood’s character read as anxious to me on second watch. He can’t bring himself to talk about the child victims in detail, he mentions that going away on a Disney trip sounds like a good idea, etc. I took it as signs that he feels his family is at risk without him outright saying so. What brought that impression home for me is that he insists that longlegs is working alone and gets mad when Harper suggests otherwise. Sometimes people go into denial when they’re dreading (or are scared of) something.

3 things: - The scene where Lee is looking at the bug in her mom’s house, the devil is briefly peering through the front door window behind her - When Longlegs is in custody, the agents make a remark about him being under Lee’s feet the whole time. He was under her feet in her mom’s house as well - Chelsea’s Longlegs intonations are spot on

I think her boss definitely knew that his daughters bday was related to longlegs. Thats why hes so desperate to solve the case and puts a rookie agent onto the case because he ran out of leads (his partner tells him lee isnt ready). Any time lee asks about how the kids die he refuses to talk about it. When they are shown the body in the families house, Lee asks the coroner how old the daughter was. She says 9 which is the breaking point that makes Carter leave the room. Then he refuses to listen to lee when she says theres an accomplice because he wants the case to be over and his family to be safe

Nic Cage told Oz that a huge inspiration for Longlegs was his mom. He said he couldn't help thinking about her as he read the script. He stated that he remembered she would put cold cream on her face, then turn around to him and say, "Cuckoo!". 😅 the scene when longlegs goes in the store and interacts with the teen, him doing those weird hand motions and covering his eyes, you're basically watching Nic's mom. She would do all those things to him as a kid!

I believe the director said that the entire plot is to make Lee kill her mother, just because the devil thinks it’s funny

Harker’s time at the chief’s house after driving him home, was so relatable and honestly one of the funniest bits in the film. Her sitting in the daughter’s room in silence was great.

I think Longlegs was always using the dolls to kill even before recruiting Lee's mother, he would just deliver it himself. But since he's off-putting and weird, having someone more trustworthy, like a nun, to deliver them instead would be more ideal

What i loved about this movie is that it never lets you be comfortable. It starts with a really tense opening scene and an excellent jumpscare, and the tension never eases from there. Partly bc Lee herself never seems to be comfortable in any situation she's in. She always looks away when speaking to someone, has very tense and stilted body language; even when we see her sleeping, shes fully clothed and lying in an awkward position on a bare floor. She's never comfortable, and by extension, neither is the audience. Brilliant.

Okay, as a Christian who has done full studies on Revelation and still doesn’t fully understand it, the fact that you casually said you reread Revelation to try and understand something in the movie… MAD respect. 😂

16:30 This makes me think of death note where ryuk (the shinigami) says he only dropped the death note because he was bored, and light just so happened to pick it up. Nothing was special about light at all, he just happened to be the one to find it.

It's really funny to me that Chelsea thought that certain background scares were too obvious - my eyes were scanning the background of every scene because I was SURE there would be something there and I missed all of them 😂 my instincts were right, maybe my eyes are just too bad to see them lol

Loved the movie, I have so many thoughts. Something I felt was an undercurrent of the movie was pedophilia and grooming. The fact that Lee doesn’t remember Longlegs at all but Longlegs watched her grow up, kept her in this kid-like state as a doll, gives her a 9th birthday card. Wanting kids to stay kids, Lee’s mom being protective and yet letting this creep have access to her for her entire childhood. We don’t even see Longlegs killing kids, so I got the vibe that he wouldn’t kill, but assault groom them (especially because Kiernan Shipka’s character talks so fondly of him). The dolls themselves I feel everyone is saying it’s the devil in them, but it seems that there’s some of the kid’s consciousness in them too (we see from their POV), which to me speaks to mentally stunting, as well as the dissociation and blacking out that can occur when being abused.

Spoilers... - - - Went into this one virtually blind and loved it from start to finish. The atmosphere is off the charts, there were so many shots of cavernous / empty spaces that had me inspecting every dark corner for weird little clues that I still managed to mostly miss on the first viewing. I did clock Ruby's birthday as playing into the finale, but chalked the other characters not stressing over it up to them being trained FBI agents who wouldn't just welcome in some weirdo on the date in question. A detail I very much appreciated - no one in this world once suggests that Lee's psychic abilities are feigned or some sort of parlor trick. Them buying her abilities without question made it that much easier for me to accept the fact that it's thee Devil causing all this carnage as opposed to something more grounded. As for the ending, I interpreted it as there still being a bit of Satanic aura / vibe / influence on Lee, but not that she was next in line for the Longlegs job. Not sure if this is the sort of flick that's likely to produce a sequel, but I'd just be pleased as peaches to follow Agent Harker through another case. Excellent work as always!

Longlegs did have the doll for lee, he’s there and says he has a gift from the church and the beginning scene is in perspective of the doll in the car. Also he says that lees mom was the seventh person to be given the option to die or help the devil

my favorite scene in the movie is that final one at the birthday party, but the part that has really stuck in my mind was this little noise that the wife makes when i think they're talking about getting the cake. like she knows that something's wrong and she doesn't want to be saying the things that she is, but she can't do anything about it because she's being puppeteered by the devil.

I loved the part where Nic cage said “my legs are getting longer” and proceeded to longleg all over the place

I decided on a wim to watch this to watch this late the other night. I invited a friend, said "hey I'm gonna go see the new nic cage horror movie" he said "what's it called?". I said Long legs, he said no cause he "can't handle spider shit". After going through 100 minutes of hell I imidiatly called him and said "dude that was not about spiders".

THANK YOU FOR CONSTANTLY SHOUTING OUT NOPE! Nope is in my top 10 of all time, I absolutely adore that movie.

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I personally found the scene of Longlegs screaming in the car to be absolutely terrifying. Like he's an old serial killer who can't lure his victims as well anymore, but you see his rage and insanity come out. It's like that girl has no idea how close she was to being murdered. Also, the scene of him just sitting on his mattress, bathed in red light. Something so scary about seeing someone so deranged alone with their thoughts. Both scenes he's dropped the crazy act and just looks mean. I found it so creepy ngl

I think we can all agree that Longlegs is destined to be a future first boot on a Horror Survivor episode

I personally love when you guys go on tangents and Gressel gets involved 🖤

LISTEN, we love the tangents. The poop knife tangent will forever live rent free in my head and that is okay with me

my theory is once the doll has been brought to the house, its kind of a living host inside of the person that it was meant for, like throughout the whole movie the main character like is half braindead, she speaks slowly, and she isn't very emotional at all, then once her mom shoots the head and breaks open the silver ball, and it releases the evil, when shes driving back after the house incident at the end, shes screaming and crying in the car, which is way different than the character was the whole movie, like she was released or something like that.

I want a thorough investigation on why there’s an Adult Ruby Carter listed in the credits. Is that possibly part of the original ending that got changed? We need answers on the blu ray! 😮‍💨

Longlegs singing is the perfect mix of hilarious and terrifying. How do you even respond to that person? Truly every customer service worker's nightmare.

Me every time there's a minor inconvenience in my life: DADDYYYYYYY! MOMMYYYYYYY! UNMAKE ME AND SAVE ME FROM THE HELL OF LIVINGGGGGG!

As a victim of CSA the theme of overprotective parenting resonated with me a lot.... my parents never told me that was bad and that I could tell someone about it I had to figure out on my own after it happening for a long time. For that reason while the movie was fun it also kinda left me with a deep sadness for the day afterwards

Best title card of the year. Absolutely phenomenal horror film and I’m glad Oz Perkins is getting the recognition he deserves.

When Nic Cage was screaming and screeching in the car I automatically thought of Kick ass when he was getting burnt to a crisp but encouraging Hit Girl before he died.

My friend would not stop giving me crap for jumping almost three feet out of my seat during THAT part of the opening scene.

Some little tidbits: I've seen a lot of people claim the sphere in the dolls is just a Phantasm reference, but I think it's a little bit more than that. They look like they're made out of uranium, which given the timeline of this film, I think it's a reference to the toxic materials that were foubd to have been used to make toys in the 70s/80s. I think him being a doll maker further solidifies that for me. Lee's psychic like abilities was because of her connection to her doll, and it went away when her mom shoots and destroys the doll. That's also why the other girl jumped off the roof immediately after they opened the sphere in her doll. Her line about how she wouldn't ever want to forget him is very crucial to all this. I do not believe Lee was necessarily intended to become his victim as a child. Sure he probably would've killed them had her mother refused his deal, but I think it was the plan from the start. Also the theory that he is Lee's farther is hilarious and ridiculous. The serial killer Lee catches towards to beginning may be unrelated to the Longlegs case, but he's definitely relative to her part in the Devil's story. Her boss says the man is likely armed and dangerous and won't go quietly, but as soon as Lee enters the house he calmy surrenders without a fight. I believe he's under the same control and that he was told to spare her as she had a further part to play. I definitely don't read the ending as her taking Longlegs' place, I think it was just the inevitable conclusion to this domino effect the devil designed. The absolute worst possible outcome for Lee happens when she's forced to kill her mother to save the girl. But Ruby isn't really the point, Lee doesn't really stop anything, she doesn't win. The ending is essentially the devil being like "Yeah, I did that." I hate the intense questioning of "why would the devil do that, why would it care?". The whole thing with god is that it has this divine plan, everything is according to his plan. The devil is the antithesis of that; random, sporadic, chaos, because it can. Characters like the coroner saying he thought he could hear his ex wife's voice, or Lee's mom pausing and saying she doesn't remember anything when asked about who came to visit them, is all because of the Devil's influence. Same reason why Lee can't make herself move to save her boss' wife.

So I think Agent Carter (Blair Underwood) actually was concerned about his daughter’s birthday. I think that’s why he got someone he thought was psychic to look at the case, and why he was so adamant about Lee Harker meeting his family. To see if she got anything from them. And also why he kept pushing her when the other agent kept saying “she’s not ready.” He was extremely desperate to solve the case, but when Longlegs died he didn’t believe there was another killer and assumed his daughter was safe.

i was sat in the cinema like "kiernan shipka or mckenna grace?" the confusion was real

I interpreted the ending in a kind of a bittersweet way. Lee finds herself incapable of destroying the doll, but knows that if she destroys it Ruby will become aware of what happened to her parents. Lee ends up protecting Ruby in a way despite dooming her to the fate she lived with her entire life. I appreciated the exposition dump because I have a hard time comprehending complex stories like this in the moment, but the “murdering families” line was very on the nose.

I think the reason lee’s mothers house is so cluttered is bc since Longlegs lives in the basement so now everything that would be in the basement is all over the house

I was born and raised a Christian, and while i struggle with faith, i still try to attend church and hold true to my beliefs. Alot of this films symbolism and mood really affected me in subtle, subliminal ways. I didn't realize how badly this film disturbed me until i got home two hours later and realized my shoulders were still tense. The biggest take away i had from this movie was the theme of good vs evil. I know that sounds very basic and cookie cutter, but hear me out. The film does a really good job exploring what exactly evil is through Longlegs and Ruth (Lee's mother). Longlegs is Evil for the sake of it, The pure sadistic joy of hurting someone, while Ruth is both Evil by corruption and coercion. She doesn't start the story Evil, but the acts she perpetrates in the name of what she perceives as good warp her into something horrible. Despite all of this darkness, i still think this film has a bittersweet ending, (with emphasis on the bitter) and i think alot of that has to do with Lee Harker. I really related to her struggles at home. I think her weird behavior is part undiagnosed autism, part deeply repressed trauma. I think Lee represents Goodness in spite of Evil. She is a candle in a dark dark place. While it comes at a high cost, she is able to stop the killing. I think the gun jamming could be supernatural, but it could also be mundane. i also think its a metaphor for how she can't erase her or Ruby's trauma. Evil things were done to them. They have to find ways to cope with that. Complete tangent: Nick Cage was great in this movie. Almost every scene had this perfect balance of comedy and horror. Like, he is so ridiculous that it loops around to being scary. No normal person acts like Longlegs. It makes you wonder if Longlegs is even human, or rather some demon puppeting a gollum of flesh and bone to cause misery on earth before he slams himself back into hell where he belongs. It would explain why he can't do the killings himself, imo.

On 32:35. I think Lee’s boss does know that his daughter might be the next target, but it’s not his words that show this, it’s his actions. His constant denial that Longlegs could have an accomplice seems to me like him trying to console his own worries. He constantly tells himself that Longlegs’ death means the case is over, which means that his daughter is safe. This is why he gets so angry at Lee for saying there is an accomplice. He’s in denial because he wants to believe that his daughter will be okay. He suspects that his family is next on the list, and if Longlegs has someone helping him, they aren’t safe, and he can’t handle that.

Along with the name coming from Daddy Longlegs, I’d like to posit the nursery rhyme goosey goosey gander into the discussion: Old father Long-Legs Can't say his prayers: take him by the left leg, And throw him downstairs. Edit: Found an extended version of the rhyme: Old father Long-Legs Can't say his prayers: Take him by the left leg, And throw him down the stairs. And when he's at the bottom, Before he long has lain, Take him by the right leg, And throw him up again. Just from a cursory glance at the Wikipedia page for this rhyme; it sounds like Father Longlegs is in reference to a priest, and I mean the parallels to Lee (doesn’t say her prayers, ends up downstairs) and Longlegs himself are apparent enough

One thing I heard is Nic Cage took inspiration from his own mother for the character Longlegs, who had schizophrenia which led to her putting ointment on her face very reminiscent of the look in the movie. Also I saw someone point out Lee looks over her shoulder with the "psychic aspects" are being used, and that could be a nod to the devil on the shoulder. Another fantastic movie and fantastic podcast episode !!!

I was fascinated by the scene where they're watching Longlegs' interrogation, post-capture, and they pause it to discuss what to do next. The framing of that discussion, where Agent Carter is seated, head positioned right beneath Longlegs' contorted visage mid-scream, made it look like Longlegs was already screaming the devil into Carter, well before the doll arrived at the house. Terrifically shot. There were a couple of bits that clued me into what the ending would likely be, but I was still enrapt the whole time. Loved this movie.

I was so fucused on mystery side of the movie in the beginning that I didn't notice any of the devil imagery in background. That alone has me excited to rewatch this movie. I really enjoyed the eerie vibe it gave of the entire way through.

As much as Longlegs has 0 script, I still had a lot of fun. I'd watch it again NOT ONCE, NOT TWICE, BUT AS MANY TIMES AS I LIIIIIIIIIIIKE

After watching a second time, I realized that during the shape recognition part in the beginning, when she's shown an inverted triangle, the first word that came to mind was father. idk what it means, but I thought it was fascinating.

South Park Al Gore said it best: "Why does the devil do anything? He's the freakin' devil. He's a dick."

How smoothly yet rigidly Molly was put on the ground made me laugh, she looked like a figurine 😂😂

Speaking of Bill Clinton, he is a father to only a daughter. That freaked me out once I put two and two together.

Loved that little zoom in on Molly's yawn

I feel like the exchange with Ruby about her headless trophy is a bit of foreshadowing about memory loss/the dolls/Lee's doll and its sphere being destroyed. "What happened to this one?" "I don’t know. Her head came off and i don’t know where it is."

This and Cuckoo were/are my most anticipated movie of the year and it delivered and even succeeded my expectations. Watching The Blackcoats Daughter beforehand really got me into Osgood's style and I'm super excited to see what he does next!!

this movie felt like if an Ethel Cain song was a movie

Story time. The night I saw Longlegs for the first time - I've seen it twice now - I woke up in the middle of that night because I had a nightmare about Nicolas Cage as Longlegs. Dude was terrifying and deserves all the praise for this role

I will say that people on social media have only been calling Lee Harker a Clarice Starling variant bc she’s a girl, she clearly favors Will Graham way more!

thank you for keeping me company all these years guys - make me feel like im in a conversation and i really find it comforting

Also cuckoo is a type of bird that puts their eggs in another birds nest so that other bird feeds it, and long legs is literally being fed victim by lees mom and live in her house. I saw this theory from spooky astronauts on yt

1:04:23 in this scene, I took it as being from the perspective of Lee’s mother. That’s why the woman being killed by her husband reaches out to us, because she’s reaching out for the safety of the Church. Also why the priest that comes in looks oddly towards the camera, as he’s seeing a nun but one he does not recognise

I really liked it, but I'm in agreeance with the people that think they exposition dumped too much in the end and was also kinda disappointed that it was Satan. Like I'm sure there's some demon that's linked with dolls, I don't get why they'd just blanketly be like "nah, it's the devil". And it would have been so much better if we hadn't gotten the mothers VO after she shot the doll. I get that point of it being Lee regaining her memories, but I think just showing it in flashbacks without VO or really any dialogue would have kept it kind of a mystery but given us enough to piece together what happened.

Might be a month late, but @46:00 the thing hanging from Longleg’s rearview mirror that Chelsea is talking about is, in fact, a bottle opener. Specifically, a brass Capricornus bottle opener. The only great significance I could draw from it is that Capricorn would be Lee’s zodiac sign since she was born on January 14. But it could’ve easily just been used because it looks cool and has some of the goat imagery that typically surrounds Satan.

That ending with Blair Underwood and his family was so good...and I could have sworn that before Lee shot her Mom in the head, she stood up and lunged at her saying "Don't call me that!!!" and had Longleg's face kind of superimposed on her own, and her voice sounded lower and demonic as she screamed.

Nic Cage's last line of the movie, "hail satan" and just the way he delivers that line gives me chills and has haunted me ever since I saw this movie! Best horror movie of the year so far!

46:33 the crash zoom on Molly and James' subsequent horror is day-making

“I’m any-percenting family murder suicide” -Chelsea

idk about y’all, but i feel like this is a GOOD winter/christmas watch. being from the mitten, the winter vibe just felt.. comfortable, if that makes sense

There is such as thing as a "Longlegs" patron- a stranger who sponsors someone from afar without being actively involved in their life. Its seen now as a form of grooming now but used to be a pretty common thing. When I first heard the title that's what is reminded me of. There's so many layers to this movie and I always catch different pieces with each watch. Such as the 7 people helping longlegs being the 7 heads, the 10 crowns being the 10 murdered families, and I 100% believe that the guy that was caught at the beginning was part of the longlegs plot-maybe one of the heads. Why else would he give himself up to easily to Lee? Just my theory.

At like 50 minutes you guys talked about how it was confusing whether or not Longlegs used the dolls before meeting Lee's mom. In the opening scene(the 4 mm one i think) we see in his passenger seat that he does indeed have a doll prepared for Lee, making me think that he had been using dolls all along, and that the inly thing keeping him from actually using it and killing Lee in the lack of a father figure. Idk what the importance of the father figure is in this context and why there must be one present for the murder to take place.

My read on the end of the movie was Lee Sparing Ruby the pain of remembering those events to keep her safe. But that's just the interpretation I liked the most.

Dead Meat Podcast comments section with the great additional theories and analysis as usual, i love y'all! 💖

as an afab on the spectrum i felt seen by this movie in such a lovely and refreshing way, overwhelmingly when people intentionally write a character as autistic its so offensive and stereotypical (and male), so even though it was not an intentional choice it felt very wonderful to have good representation for once! oz perkins is also one of my favorite directors and im so happy he's getting mainstream recognition for his talents!

There is truly nothing like getting a Dead Meat Podcast after watching an awesome movie 😊

I love watching your podcasts after I watch the movie and the comments are always talking about details I've possibly missed. It's just such a nice community in here!

"Press that devil smoke out!" should've been a Dad's Grass promotion.

The way Longlegs killed himself as described at 59:28 - 59:33 really reminded me of how Lealand Palmer killed himself in a similar vein in Twin Peaks (albeit less gory), which also reminded some other people too which created an interesting theory that Longlegs is in an alternate universe of Twin Peaks.

My boyfriend and i saw Longlegs day 1 at a theater after seeing your recommendation! The way the movie was shot had me constantly looking around the screen, expecting something to pop up in the background at any point. I love a movie that doesn't explain everything to the viewer, letting them fill in the blanks like a detective trying to solve a case. And Nicholas Cage came in swinging again! No one plays a disturbed/crazy man like the Cage! Loved that in interviews he discussed more of his characters background, saying he used to be in a band and looks the way he does due to multiple surgeries, and is so pale because he wheres powder to try to cover the scars and discoloration.

A set thing I liked is most if not all the windows had something in them. I mean especially in her house. Clear, big windows had a view to something, typically trees which could hide something. Foggy windows had shadows in them. It was making me squint to try and make out a figure in any of it.

I think I felt a bit conflicted by the third act because (SPOILERS): Edit: I don't think the use of supernatural elements was lazy or even not fitting for the movie. I liked it a lot but I was expecting something different going in. 1. The mom kinda exposition dumped the big reveal of her working with Longlegs and how it all worked. The whole third chapter actually felt a bit rushed. 2. I wasn't expecting this movie to have a supernatural conclusion. Like I spent a good chunk of the movie very engaged in the mystery of who Longlegs is and how he was involved in the killing and assumed the reveal was a more mundane reason. Then it was like "oh wait he did it all through devil magic? Oh okay." I just assumed this movie would be something else from the trailer but I don't dislike it. I actually really want to rewatch this movie, I liked it okay the first time but I think I'll enjoy it more this time around.

What I like about the atmosphere/tone/vibe of this movie is how Nicolas Cage is dialed to 11, but Maika Monroe is dialed down to 2. So when somebody playing a "normal" character like Blair Underwood is interacting with Maika Monroe, even that can feel off-putting. It's very skilled how Osgood Perkins maintains a consistent tone, by juxtaposing actors playing at very different levels of intensity.

After watching the first 5-10 minutes of longlegs, I was just like, "Wow," great film in all aspects. It's my favourite horror film of the year for me so far.

Calling it now, Long Legs wins the 2025 Horror Royal Rumble

I will say, this movie was fun to see with a full audience, because people at my theater freaked out. I heard a man tell people he was with that he was gonna go home and watch a Disney movie. I also didn’t find Nic Cage’s performance funny. I was genuinely unsettled by him. 😂 I thought that when he screamed in the car he was mimicking his victims as like a self soothing thing and it freaked me out.

Will mention this movie is super Alan Wake-esque, specifically the second one. It's got plot connections like the FBI agent solving a cultish murder case, but the tone, the shots, and a lot of the performances feel specifically inspired by Alan Wake 2 and Remedy in general.

Would love a prequel where we have a younger nic cage character on the rise in the early 70s with his glam rock; but the voices start taking over.

in an interview Oz said Lee's story is wrapped up with the climax being her killing her mom. the devil orchestrated all these events throughout the years just to mess with the families and have her take out her mom. shows how evil the devil is just targeting them for fun. but yeah she doesnt get possessed or anything, she was forced to shoot her boss and her mom which was most tragic. in the end the devil won

Here is a perspective regarding the boss not addressing the fact that his daughter's birthday is on the day longlegs targets. He actually is fully aware of the connection and he's willing to do whatever it takes to get the killer. Everything he does is his desperate attempt to find longlegs before his daughters birthday: He's personally involved with the investigation. He gets irrationally upset whenever there's a roadblock. He brings in a newbie agent who potentially has psychic cognition even though she only got 50% of her predictions right. After they got longlegs, he lets his guard down, which results in the him being another victim to the devil.

Even more than silence of the lambs, longlegs reminds me a LOT of true detective season 1

Been so eager to hear your guys thoughts since I stepped foot out of that theater!

I saw someone make a convincing argument that Longlegs is a human who’s been possessed by the demon Baal for many years. I kind of assumed that he was a doll maker before being possessed and that’s why it’s dolls. Additionally, I think his screaming in the car was the real Dale Cobble breaking through for a moment to cry for help.

Longlegs was a trippy, unsettling film. I loved it.

Literally just saw this last night and so happy to see that I’m right on time for the discussion. I really did ignore the hype for the movie, but I think I hyped it in my brain as being comparable to Silence of the Lambs-which I think it does pretty well until the supernatural elements are revealed. I didn’t love that it was just, “Satan has horcruxes.” Ok. But I think overall it looks great and the vibes are sufficiently unnerving.

Apparently, the young lady at the front desk of the hardware store is Osgood Perkins’ daughter. So yeah nepo baby.

I would love to see the directors cut of this movie, I imagine the 3rd act drops the monologue and is probably better paced.

I say this as someone who has been ad advocate for the cinematic stylings of Nick Coppola, star of Con Air, for 25 years and who has her biggest section of her VHS collection dedicated to his filmography - Alicia Witt is the best performance in this film.