“Every year, there is another.” Dropped on Twitter last past weekend, a cryptic teaser that fans had to decipher and translate, Neon showed us all—even those who didn’t understand what they were seeing—the first look at “Longlegs.” An FBI horror thriller that sounds a little like “Silence Of The Lambs” in its mix of crime agencies and horror films, the movie is written and directed by Oz Perkins, the filmmaker behind “The Blackcoat’s Daughter,” “I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House” and episodes of “The Twilight Zone” (Perkins is also an actor and the son of classic Hollywood actor Anthony Perkins).
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The chilling teaser only showed a family in a photo smiling together with eerie music, a man whispering in the background, “That’s my daughter,” static sounds, the sounds of a 911 dispatcher saying, “Sir, can you stay on the line please?” followed by a freaky looking image of a body with extremely long legs and the terrified voice saying, “That’s not my daughter!” Then, a quick flash of unintelligible words that keen-eyed fans decoded as saying, “longlegs.” And that was our first terrifying, mystifying look at “Longlegs.”
“Longlegs” stars Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt, and Blair Underwood. And now the trailer has arrived, and it reveals a bit more.
The film centers on Lee Harker (Monroe, known for “It Follows”), a talented new FBI agent who has been assigned to an unsolved case of a serial killer. As the investigation becomes more complicated and occult evidence is uncovered, Harker realizes a personal link to the ruthless killer and must act quickly to prevent another family murder.
Cage, a producer on the film, is set to play the elusive serial killer. Not much else is known about the film, but Neon is now ready to release the movie on July 12, 2024. Get more clues for what we’re in for with the new teaser trailer below.