"Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller" -The Guardian - ✭✭✭✭
The Independent- ✭✭✭✭
Time Out - ✭✭✭✭
Writer-director Osgood Perkin's potent supernatural-flavoured serial killer procedural has seized the attention of audiences worldwide thanks to its slick marketing campaign and lead actor pairing of scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows) and the unique presence that is Nicholas Cage. With nods to Silence of the Lambs and Se7en, this film has atmosphere and captivating mythology in spades.
Maika Monroe plays withdrawn FBI Special Agent Lee Harker, a quiet presence in the department but one now sought out by superiors because of her rumoured psychic intuition. Her mission is to track down the mysterious 'Longlegs' - the only suspect in a decades-long series of slayings where entire families were killed by the father with seemingly no forced entry, and no witness or other perpetrators. In a cold 1990s Midwestern winter, Lee must track down a killer who seemingly never touched his victims or even crossed the thresholds of their property.