Longlegs: the horror movie people are calling the best serial killer film in recent memory [Video]

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Early viewers of Nicolas Cage’s new film have claimed Longlegs is the best serial killer horror to be released since The Silence of the Lambs in 1991.

Directed by Oz Perkins (Gretel & Hansel, I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House), the film follows FBI agent Lee Harker (Maika Monroe) as she investigates a series of murders attributed to a Satanic killer known as Longlegs (Cage) in the 1990s.

Longlegs is slated for release in the UK on Friday, 12 July – the same day as the movie’s wider US release. However, early screenings of the film have already triggered a slew of praise for Perkins’ fourth feature.

Writing on X/Twitter, Matt Neglia, editor of Next Best Picturecalled Longlegs “one of the best serial killer …