Longlegs (2024)

Eerie ‘Longlegs’ feels like a nightmare from which you can’t awaken. An unrecognizable Nicolas Cage descends into Satanic evil and takes us with him in director Osgood Perkins’ disquieting, thoroughly creepy ‘Longlegs.’

Writer-director Osgood Perkins has staked out his own personal corner of the horror genre with his first three films, merging elements of fantasy, fairy tales, and the Gothic into the feverish narratives of ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter,’ ‘I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House,’ and ‘Gretel & Hansel.’ His unsettling new film, ‘Longlegs,’ still has some of that fairy tale flavor: its protagonist lives in a log cabin in the woods and some of the action centers around a mother and daughter living in a remote house like two characters out of the Brothers Grimm.