Longlegs Is Now the Highest-Grossing Indie Movie of the 12 months

Get away the birthday cake and unwrap that bundle that certain appears to be like prefer it incorporates an eerily lifelike doll: Longlegs is celebrating an enormous milestone. Osgood Perkins‘ breakout horror film starring Maika Monroe as an unusually intuitive FBI agent and Nicolas Cage because the nightmarish serial killer she’s chasing is now formally 2024’s highest-grossing unbiased movie.

In line with a press launch from Neon, the studio behind Longlegs, the movie has now crossed the $100 million box-office mark worldwide. Moreover, “with a present cumulative gross of $72 million within the U.S. and Canada, Longlegs is the best unbiased movie launch of 2024 to date and the highest grossing R-rated horror movie of 2024.” That nightmarish marketing campaign actually labored!

These numbers mark an enormous achievement—particularly contemplating the movie has but to open in sure key markets, together with Italy and Latin America. To date worldwide, it’s scored huge within the UK and Eire (“the highest grossing worldwide territory for the movie, at the moment with $10 million”), in addition to Canada ($7 million).

Much more superlatives: Longlegs has grossed extra within the U.S. than Neon’s earlier high launch, the Oscar-winning Parasite (which did earn extra globally); it’s additionally “the best grossing indie horror movie of the final 10 years,” with a take that eclipses different notable latest hits, together with Discuss to Me, Insidious Chapter 3, and Hereditary.

With this in thoughts, Neon is clearly thrilled it’s bought one other Perkins horror film within the pipeline—Stephen King adaptation The Monkey, coming in February—and that it’s producing It Follows sequel They Comply with, starring Longlegs‘ Monroe.

On a broader scale, Longlegs‘ profitable success stands to buoy your entire indie horror style. Audiences who had fun watching Nic Cage’s unnerving efficiency could also be extra more likely to search out different delightfully freaky, offbeat releases—and indie studios simply bought one other nudge that, as all the time, investing in low-budget horror can reap enormous rewards.

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