NEON has shared a brand new teaser for the insane-looking horror film Longlegs, and it options some extra chilling footage from the movie.
With all the footage that has been shared, one side of the movie that’s being held again is a full reveal of Nicolas Cage’s serial killer character. This can be a sensible advertising and marketing transfer that builds up the curiosity.
The director of the movie, Osgood Perkins, explains in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, why they’re holding again on the reveal.
He stated: “It is driving individuals in direction of a freak present at a circus tent. We have the factor backstage, and when there’s sufficient individuals gathered ‘spherical, we will pull the curtain.”
Cage added: “It is the equal of placing a warning label on a jar of nitroglycerin. The monster is a extremely, extremely harmful substance. The way in which it is moved, unveiled, deployed needs to be handled very rigorously.
“Neglect in regards to the movie show blowing up; the entire metropolis may blow up, nay the nation, perhaps even the world. He’s going to alter your actuality. Your doorways of notion are going to open, and your life isn’t going to be the identical.”
I like that hype! Cage sounds just like the man standing in entrance of the circus tent getting individuals pumped up and excited to see what’s backstage!
Perkins goes on to confess that he did think about revealing Cage’s “monster” previous to the movie’s launch: “Modifying an image is an almost psychedelic expertise. It truly is as a result of it is so infinite.
“The permutations and mixtures you will get from placing this there and that there, you are in a Rubik’s Dice of prospects. I believe we discovered the candy spot. This man lives simply exterior the consciousness of our protagonist. He is there, however he is completely not there, however he is completely there.”
This film follows Maika Monroe’s character, Lee Harker, a gifted new FBI agent, who’s assigned to an unsolved serial killer case.
“Because the case takes advanced turns, unearthing proof of the occult, Harker discovers a private connection to the cruel killer and should race towards time to cease him earlier than he claims the lives of one other harmless household.”
Longlegs is alleged to be “within the vein of basic Hollywood psychological thrillers,” and early evaluations have in contrast it to the basic ’90s thriller The Silence of the Lambs.
The film shall be launched on July twelfth, 2024 and it’s stated to be the “scariest movie of the last decade.”
