The final trailer for Longlegs is here – and it’s terrifying.
In the short clip, which you can watch below, we get quick glimpses of Nicolas Cage’s titular assassin, leaning into the frame ever so slightly before the trailer cuts to another shot. At one point we hear him say, in his eerie high-pitched voice: “Hey, here he is!”
Longlegs, written and directed by Osgood Perkins, is rated 100% Fresh Rotten tomatoes with critics calling it the scariest film of the year. Set in the 1990s, the film stars Maika Monroe as FBI agent Lee Harker, who is tasked with hunting down a serial killer who can’t seem to stop committing family murder. The cast includes Alicia Witt as Lee’s religious mother Ruth, Blair Underwood, Lisa Chandler, Dakota Daulby, Peter James Bryant, Jason Day, Vanessa Walsh and Kiernan Shipka as Carrie Anne – the only known survivor of Longlegs. Cage made the picture under his Saturn Films banner.
Bend all the way down.LONGLEGS 7.12 pic.twitter.com/gex6aLXWA1July 1, 2024
The movie had a good marketing campaign with cryptic billboards popping up around Los Angeles, a phone number you can call to talk to Longlegs directly, and a website that tracks all his murders in graphic detail. However, we still haven’t seen what Longlegs looks like – and Perkins says we won’t until the movie comes out.
Longlegs is set to hit cinemas in the US and UK on July 12. For more, check out our list of the most exciting upcoming movies in 2024 and beyond, or jump straight to the good stuff with our list of movie release dates.
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