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Longlegs (Perkins 2024)
While we think Osgood Perkins seems to be a genuinely wonderful human, sadly this film is not wonderful. This is not so much a movie as it is a series of trope vignettes with similar production desgin. Longlegs is all vibes with no substance; no character development, no timeline, no rationales, and no real reasons for anything. In many ways it’s a perfect film for the TikTok era, and we don’t mean that as a compliment. Laura started out thinking Marshall would hate the film. While he didn’t initially, through our discussion we found out she was absolutely correct to think that. This is not what we want in our horror films, without some cohesion of diegetic reality, there is no real fear, no real horror.
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SPOILERS IN THIS EPISODE
Longlegs
Minor spoilers for
The Conjuring
Silence of the Lambs
Se7en
Smile
Dahmer Story of a Monster
TOPIC INDEX – Longlegs (Perkins 2024) (times are approximate)
0:30 – Introductions
3:45 – Film discussion begins
4:30 – Laura’s overall thoughts and The Age of Cage
6:00 – ethical challenges of serial killer films
7:00 – The most hated of the films we’ve discussed on the podcast and where LongLegs stands
8:30 – vibes movies
11:00 – Marshall on Nic Cage
13:30 – SPOILERS section begins
14:00 – Laura on Nic Cage
15:00 – the ethics of glorifying serial killers
20:30 – back to LongLegs
23:00 – lack of character development
42:00 – a modern fairy tale
48:00 – the ending
52:00 – serial killer genre vs possession genre
58:00 – popularity of the film
1:01:30 – grading the film using the Collective Nightmares Evolving Rubric of Social Responsibility
1:05:00 – Marshall’s thoughts on Twisters
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (Berlinger 2019)
The Conjuring (Wan 2013)
Prisoners (Villeneuve 2013)
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“Horror films are our collective nightmares.”
Episode 132