Maika Monroe as Agent Lee Harker stands against a wall in Longlegs
Summary What made Longlegs such a terrifying viewing experience for me was that it kept me fixated on the background of every shot in anticipation of a looming jump scare. Longlegs has been praised as the scariest movie of 2024 – it’s this year’s answer to last year’s big horror hit, Talk to Me – and it certainly lives up to that reputation. Nicolas Cage’s titular serial killer, who was hidden in all the trailers, doesn’t disappoint when he bursts onto the screen in the opening scene.
Focusing On The Background Of Longlegs Made It Scarier For Me I kept waiting for a jump scare From the lipstick-faced demon that appears behind Patrick Wilson in Insidious to the tall entity that towers over the doorway in It Follows, it’s become common for horror movies to hide their jump scares in the background. This tradition has trained horror audiences to keep their eye on the background in anticipation of something spooky jumping out at them.
Longlegs Still Has Several Effective Jump Scares That Deliver Osgood Perkins is a master of the jump scare Whereas a lesser horror filmmaker would cram a jump scare into every single background shot, Perkins rarely takes advantage of the audience’s expectation of a jump scare. But that doesn’t mean every jump scare setup in Longlegs is a fake-out.
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