Maika Monroe also shines in a high-end horror that is far more than the sum of its influences M aika Monroe has already starred in one classic horror of the modern age – 2014’s deeply unsettling It Follows . Now she has a second to add to her CV – Longlegs , the new film from writer-director Osgood Perkins. Like a cross between The Silence of the Lambs , Zodiac and Saw , it’s an infernally creepy ’90s-set serial killer tale.
Happily, it also features Nicolas Cage in yet another batshit crazy role. The film starts with a quote from the classic T. Rex song ‘Bang A Gong (Get It On)’ – including the immortal line “You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you” – before we glimpse Cage as Longlegs approaching a little girl.
Even that sentence sounds disturbing, and Cage’s turn as this deranged fellow, heavily disguised under prosthetics and long straw-blonde hair, does nothing to displace that. Maika Monroe in ‘Longlegs’ CREDIT: Neon Longlegs is the centre of a manhunt as he’s been slaughtering families for 30 years, leaving a coded letter at each scene of the crime. Otherwise, there appears to be little to connect the murders, and even more curiously, there is no sign of forced entry at each location, suggesting Longlegs has powers beyond mere mortals.
But given how sporadic these killings are, the trail has gone cold, much to the frustration of FBI investigator Agent Carter (Blair Underwood). Hope arrives in the form of rookie agent Lee Harker (Monro.
