LONGLEGS | Limmy's Official Trailer Reaction 

He needs to keep up appearances.

Read a book.

why? what’s this obsession with everything being brand new and not inspired by anything else? historically, that’s not how art has ever worked. yknow, sometimes it’s okay for something to have been done before as long as the quality is there. and as someone whose first horror movie was the exorcist, the quality is there with Longlegs, it just wasn’t something that hadn’t been done before. predictable, but very well done. the actors were great, cage was shockingly charismatic in a Art the Clown kinda way, the way the story moves is very stylized, the concept was fun, and the cinematography was fantastic. this seems to be a specific issue with horror fans, most likely bc there’s the added challenge of needing to be scary and when ppl are desensitized to jumps and most scary things from the quantity of horror movies in the modern era, it’s easier to say a movie sucked bc you weren’t scared enough or you’d seen that concept before. unoriginal doesn’t mean inherently bad, unless you only view things from a perspective of ‘I need something new’ every time you watch or read or analyze art.

I think we need to separate ‘unoriginal’ from ‘cash grab’ bc it’s very clear that the issue most ppl have is when there’s no passion put into it and no attempt at telling a story, not that the story itself is unoriginal. it’s very obvious when movie studios greenlight something ONLY bc it’ll make money and that’s the shit ppl hate, not the fact that they’ve heard a similar story before

@@pillowvibes I agree. I haven't seen Longlegs. What I was taking aim at was commercial productions without any artistic ambition or intent to do something new, however small, in an established genre, e.g. themes, style, perspective, atmosphere, setting, top-notch craftsmanship etc. I don't mind people making something where the main intent is to learn the craft and grow creatively; it's the worthless "cash grabs" I dislike, that clutter catalogs and cause both viewers and workers to waste time and effort on what ultimately is rather meaningless. Ideally, I would like our society to focus on mastery, craftsmanship, exploration/innovation and creative expression, and less on maximizing profit.

The month and day are reversed in the US. It releases on July 12.

The quigley guy

Exactly, one of if not the best modern horrors

It's the marketing campaign that's exceptional. He missed the point.

It was good! It creeped me out!

No way

Nah, more of a worthy rival to A24. Neon has been called the new A24, as A24 is making its exit from the indie/film buff realm.