{"id":16932,"date":"2024-10-25T20:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-26T00:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16932"},"modified":"2024-10-31T12:04:34","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T16:04:34","slug":"longlegs-2024-oz-perkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16932","title":{"rendered":"Longlegs (2024, Oz Perkins)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agent Lee Harker (a Draculized Harper Lee, played by <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9865\">The Girl Whom It Follows<\/a>) has a hunch that gets her partner killed, and instead of getting mad at her the FBI declares her to be psychic and puts her on the decades-long case of a phantom serial killer who convinces dads to murder-suicide their families.  She eventually discovers tall pale T. Rex-fan Nicolas Cage, who smashes his own face while revealing that his accomplice was Agent Harker&#8217;s mom (Alicia Witt, Crispin Glover&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16208\">Hotel Room<\/a><\/em> partner).  Mainly I want to know why the agency&#8217;s forensics dept. confidently says that the killer (Cage) never entered the homes, when the long late explanation of mom&#8217;s participation shows the killer (Witt) entering all the homes.  Directed by the grandson of <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16843\">Scarface&#8217;s<\/a> boss, whose next movie might be an adaptation of the cover story of King&#8217;s <em>Skeleton Crew<\/em> and whose previous movies I can&#8217;t decide whether to watch or to <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16897\">1\/10th-watch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This just in: <a href=\"https:\/\/mubi.com\/en\/notebook\/posts\/the-devil-probably-10966\">Robert Rubsam in Mubi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image24\/longlegs.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agent Lee Harker (a Draculized Harper Lee, played by The Girl Whom It Follows) has a hunch that gets her partner killed, and instead of getting mad at her the FBI declares her to be psychic and puts her on the decades-long case of a phantom serial killer who convinces dads to murder-suicide their families. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,614,3334,40,1319,607],"class_list":["post-16932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-nicolas-cage","tag-oz-perkins","tag-psychic","tag-serial-killer","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16978,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16932\/revisions\/16978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}