Longlegs (2024) ★ ★
I went into this movie thinking of the only true horror film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, "The Silence of the Lambs," and expected writer/director Osgood Perkins to deliver. The son of Anthony Perkins ("Psycho") and Berry Berenson ("Remember My Name"), Perkins has filmmaking in his blood, so my hope that he would move the ball forward from Jonathan Demme's 1991 classic seemed a reasonable one. Instead, "Longlegs" turned out to be a massive disappointment. All the right fixins' are here: good cast (Maika Monroe, Nicolas Cage, Blair Underwood), good cinematography (Andés Arochi), good sound design (Joe Dzuban and Zach Seivers), and good idea -- make Cage a monster, Buffalo Bill style. Yet somehow the film falls flat and lacks substance, dimension, animus, and most of all, scares. There is much ado about "Longlegs" in the online film community, with many hailing it as "almost perfect" and "the scariest