Longlegs—a crucial and box-office hit that lately claimed the title “highest-grossing indie film of 2024″—is able to come residence. Did you’ve “lingering nightmares” in your checklist of weekend plans? As a result of a serial killer is about to peek by your window and crash your party. Beginning August 23, the movie arrives on digital for rental and buy; a bodily launch is coming September 24.
Although it’ll be arduous to attend any longer in case you didn’t catch Longlegs within the theater, the 4K Extremely HD, Blu-ray, and DVD possibility may be your finest wager; in accordance with Neon it comes with bonus supplies that embrace “on-set interviews with forged and crew and feature-length commentary with writer-director Osgood Perkins.” io9 received an opportunity to talk to Perkins when Longlegs hit theaters, and he’s a considerate, insightful creator (on high of being the son of Psycho star Anthony Perkins, and a typically actor himself who’s appeared in Nope, Legally Blonde, and extra). His commentary will little doubt be an enchanting pay attention.
Whereas Longlegs is a film finest skilled with out understanding too a lot about what to anticipate, even informal popular culture followers will realize it stars Nicolas Cage as a distinctively disturbing assassin. Maika Monroe (It Follows) performs a younger FBI agent whose intuitive talents make her uniquely suited to pursue him—a expertise famous by her boss, performed by Blair Underwood. Longlegs‘ narrative begins off as a recognizable homage to acquainted crime thrillers, particularly Silence of the Lambs, however then spirals down a unique path, drawing on rigorously crafted manufacturing design that infuses eerie dread into its mundane, gray world.
“After I sat down to put in writing the film, the query in my thoughts was: what’s the invitation to the viewers that I could make early on that type of will get folks within the curler coaster automotive? What positive factors them admission to the world? What’s the tip of the spear?,” Perkins instructed io9. “For me, Silence of the Lambs had been such a vastly impactful film—it got here out once I was 15 or 16-ish [when] I actually began getting excited by motion pictures, and unexpectedly you’re handed this immaculate factor. I don’t assume any of us who’re that age and are filmmakers will neglect the impact of the perfection of that film, similar to, ‘Wow, they actually simply nailed it. That is so satisfying on so many ranges.’ I simply cheated. I simply used it as a crib, as a method to soften or tenderize the viewers, to say, ‘You realize, it’s this! You bear in mind this.’ After which, in fact, take a fairly arduous left flip to make it not that in any respect.”
Longlegs arrives on digital and on demand August 23; 4K Extremely HD, Blu-ray, and DVD arrive September 24.
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