Longlegs Creeps House Simply in Time to Freak Your Weekend

Longlegs—a important and box-office hit that lately claimed the title “highest-grossing indie film of 2024″—is able to come house. Did you will have “lingering nightmares” in your record of weekend plans? As a result of a serial killer is about to peek via your window and crash your celebration. Beginning August 23, the movie arrives on digital for rental and buy; a bodily launch is coming September 24.

Although it’ll be exhausting to attend any longer should you didn’t catch Longlegs within the theater, the 4K Extremely HD, Blu-ray, and DVD choice could be your greatest wager; in line with Neon it comes with bonus supplies that embody “on-set interviews with forged and crew and feature-length commentary with writer-director Osgood Perkins.” io9 bought an opportunity to talk to Perkins when Longlegs hit theaters, and he’s a considerate, insightful creator (on prime of being the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, and a generally actor himself who’s appeared in Nope, Legally Blonde, and extra). His commentary will little question be an enchanting pay attention.

Whereas Longlegs is a film greatest skilled with out realizing too a lot about what to anticipate, even informal popular culture followers will understand it stars Nicolas Cage as a distinctively disturbing assassin. Maika Monroe (It Follows) performs a younger FBI agent whose intuitive skills make her uniquely suited to pursue him—a expertise famous by her boss, performed by Blair Underwood. Longlegs‘ narrative begins off as a recognizable homage to acquainted crime thrillers, particularly Silence of the Lambs, however then spirals down a special path, drawing on rigorously crafted manufacturing design that infuses eerie dread into its mundane, gray world.

“Once I sat down to put in writing the film, the query in my thoughts was: what’s the invitation to the viewers that I could make early on that kind of will get individuals within the curler coaster automotive? What positive aspects them admission to the world? What’s the tip of the spear?,” Perkins informed io9. “For me, Silence of the Lambs had been such a massively impactful film—it got here out after I was 15 or 16-ish [when] I actually began getting fascinated about motion pictures, and abruptly you’re handed this immaculate factor. I don’t assume any of us who’re that age and are filmmakers will neglect the impact of the perfection of that film, similar to, ‘Wow, they actually simply nailed it. That is so satisfying on so many ranges.’ I simply cheated. I simply used it as a crib, as a option to soften or tenderize the viewers, to say, ‘You already know, it’s this! You bear in mind this.’ After which, in fact, take a reasonably exhausting left flip to make it not that in any respect.”

Longlegs arrives on digital and on demand August 23; 4K Extremely HD, Blu-ray, and DVD arrive September 24.

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